World Cup 2018 qualifying thread

[Cripps]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33642619

Draw is tomorrow. More exciting than the actual qualifiers. Clashes with the Emirates cup but Arsenal will take a backseat.

Possible best and worst draws for the home nations on the link. Hoping for tough teams tbh.

[Welsh Gunner]

Hope Wales get a good draw, we've always had difficult draws due to our seeding. Can still see us drawing France or Italy as 2nd seeds knowing our luck.

[Cripps]

Coverage has started on the red button on the BBC.

Couple of Russian pubbers presenting.

On come Blatter and some pubber called Putin or something.

[Cripps]

Here's the timeline for today. We'll let you know the format for each one and who's playing who - as well as building up to the European draw throughout our live text. It won't surprise you to know there'll also be some video montages, acts and waffle between these times.

16:20 - Continental play-off draw (deciding whether the fifth-best South American side will face Oceania champions, an Asian side or North American and so on.)

16:22 - Africa draw

16:50 - North America draw

17:05 - Oceania draw

17:13 - South America draw

17:27 - Europe draw

Ffs. Do the European one first.

Not sure what draw is needed for the South American one.

Some BS dancing on ATM

[Zenith]

[Massa]

Swear we always get San Marino

[Santi]

easy group, should stroll through barring the games vs dzeko fc.


doubt many will travel to the israel game though.

[Cripps]

Um the draws not been done yet

[Cripps]

Oceania draw
Group Stage
Group A

Winner of Round One between American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga

Papua New Guinea

New Caledonia

Tahiti



Group B

New Zealand

Vanuatu

Fiji

Solomon Islands

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[Cripps]

That South American draw was the most pointless draw of all time

[Cripps]

Finally the main event. European draw is on soon unless we see another pointless musical performance.

[Cripps]

French and Sweden drawn together.

Zlatan to knock them out

[Cripps]

Netherlands France and Sweden. Damn.

[Cripps]

Germans have the Czechs and Norhtern Irish.

[Cripps]

Wales with the Irish as well as Austria