Scotland Potential World Champions

[glasgow sheep]

I'm sure some of you lot will have seen this before. Someone, with far too much time on their hands, has gone through International Football history to work out who would be World Champion if football operated on a boxing-style title match format, continuously since England beat Scotland in the 2nd ever international match to win the title for the first time.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given that Scotland and England were pretty much the only ones playing football for the first few years the title swapped between the two of us repeatedly. A bit more surprising though is the fact that Scotland have won the title more than anyone else.

Even more surprising they could potentially become world champions again when we play Georgia in March. Georgia are the current holders, and if they beat or draw with Turkey this week they will come to Hampden as Unofficial World Champions and give Scotland the chance to become UFWC for the first time since 1967 (coincidently we last became UFWC when we beat England (real world champions) 3-2.

 

Of course now I have said this no doubt Turkey will win but thems the breaks.

 

Here are the top 20 or so UFWC as listed on the Official Unofficial Football World Championship Website

 

RANK TEAM PTS

1 SCOTLAND 85

2 ENGLAND 74

3 ARGENTINA 50

4 RUSSIA 41

5 NETHERLANDS 32

6 BRAZIL 29

7 GERMANY 27

8 SWEDEN 26

9 FRANCE 25

10 ITALY 24

11 URUGUAY 16

12 CZECH REP 15

12 SPAIN 15

14 HUNGARY 14

15 AUSTRIA 12

15 WALES 12

17 CHILE 11

18 SWITZERLAND 9

19 COLOMBIA 8

19 ROMANIA 8

21 ANGOLA 7

21 PARAGUAY 7

21 PERU 7

21 ZIMBABWE 7

[NorthernLights24]

They did beat Uruguay to win the crown so they could get a result against Turkey. All they need is a draw and they get to hold onto the title. Hope we get a chance because we haven't been World Champs since 1967, when we beat you know who

[JimmyJimmy]

Georgia beat Turkey 1 - 0 tonight, so Scotland are able to claim the World Champion Crown next month if we can beat them!

 

 

 

 

No doubt, we'll get beat though.

[glasgow sheep]

LIVE FROM HAMPDEN SCOTCHLAND THE WORLD TITLE FIGHT:

SCOTCHLAND VS GEORGE

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE

[uni_don]

I wonder if this will actually help motivate the team at all?

[ZeroTolerance]

The 3 points towards Euro 2008 qualification should be enough

 

In fact, pulling on the dark blue shirt should be enough