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Originally Posted by The Monkey
You country stole a quarter of the territory of the world and claimed it for yourself. Let's just agree not ju judge modern football teams on their countries' pasts, shall we?
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So did the French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, Hungarians, Poles, Turks, Russians, Germans even...the list goes on, and that's only in Europe. In fact the French, Spanish, Dutch and German empires easily rivalled the British one for sheer size and, while we're accusing one country of being the only one to claim territories that weren't their own to begin with, how do you think the USA got so big?
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
The third place games are never any good.
You just have 2 teams who can't be bothered any more who just want to go home playing in an otherwise totally pointless game.
In fact a lot of TV companies don't even bother showing them. It's only the past couple of world cups I can remember seeing them screened.
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I remember the last two play-offs being pretty good, free-flowing games, so it's possible. Uruguay aren't the best side to watch in the world though, so it's probably not entirely likely.