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Originally Posted by Scott McD
Do you mean Scotland should be higher or lower ??
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Much lower. Even Robert the Bruce would struggle to justify them being on the first page.
The only team in that ranking whose position you can't argue with is Germany.
Argentina's position is a nonsense. Are a team that needed an injury time goal to beat 49th place Iran really the second best team in the world?
Was losing to Holland and Chile really enough justification to drop Spain 7 places? I would still back them in a one off match tomorrow against all but Germany of the teams above them.
As for the inventors of the game, I didn't think England deserved to be 11th before the World Cup but the same ranking system that put them there dropped them 10 places as a result of two single goal defeats against higher ranked opponents and a draw against an improving team that also beat the two teams that beat England.
Any ranking system can be picked to pieces but this one just doesn't follow much logic at all in my opinion.