I apologize for the placement of the apostrophe in the title. I had no idea how to write it. But I hope it gets the meaning across. This is a declaration by me, telling you, the un-informed user, which Groups in the history of professional football (ie. since I can remember) rank as the top Group's of Death.
The oldest tournament I can remember is the '98 FIFA WC Finals. If you claim to remember older tourney's, then you Sir, are a lying, cheating, Google surfing scum. My interest in international football was aroused by a video game, as can be expected for any self-respecting 8 year old. I played the game on some forgotten elder cousin's computer (since we didn't have one of our own). And the game was FIFA '98, Road to the World Cup or just FIFA '98. This is one game everyone remembers playing. Mostly like me, on some older cousin's computer.
But I don't even faintly remember the groups. I only remember Ronaldo having a seizure before the match, Zidane scoring twice and some guy getting a red card.
I didn't watch the Euro 2000, so my story starts from the 2002 WC.
1. Group F in 2002 WC: Argentina, England, Sweden, Nigeria. Sweden and England eventually qualified, dumping Argentina in the process. All because of a penalty awarded to Sweden against Nigeria. However there was a bigger upset in the tournament as favourites and defending champs France were unceremoniously chucked out by Senegal.
2. Group D in Euro 2004: Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Germany and Latvia. Germany lost to Czech Republic after a poor show against the Latvian, thanks to the heroics of a certain Milan Baros (hot property of that year).
3. Group E in WC 2006: Lets be honest. The only match we remember from this WC was the Portugal-Netherlands match. Portugal eventually won, 1-0, but not before this dude ----->
sent off 4 players and handed 16 yellow cards. For the ignorant amongst us, a football game can only involve 28 people at a maximum (considering 3 substitutions per side). There were two groups that were supposed to be the group of death, but considering Ivory Coast and Czech Republic were the only half-way decent teams eliminated, no one gives a damn.
4. Group C in Euro 2008: Italy, France, Netherlands, Romania. Yes, Rank 1,2 and 4 amongst European teams. Also 8 for Romania. But more importantly, both 2006 WC finalists in one group. And needless to say the French Toads got fucked. And how. Ended up at the bottom of the table. Scored 1 goal in the entire tournament. Well, at least they didn't lose to Romania. Vive la France.
5. Group G in World Cup 2010: None. Most evenly balanced pool distribution of all time.
6. Group B in Euro 2012: Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark. All of them finalists, and 3 out of 4 have won the tournament at least once. And already, The Netherlands are pretty screwed.
Which are your favourite GoD's?
3,800,434,765 football fans in the world today.
Disclaimer: I admit, I didn't remember any of the groups for the other tournaments either. I am a lesser lying, cheating, Google surfing scum myself.
The oldest tournament I can remember is the '98 FIFA WC Finals. If you claim to remember older tourney's, then you Sir, are a lying, cheating, Google surfing scum. My interest in international football was aroused by a video game, as can be expected for any self-respecting 8 year old. I played the game on some forgotten elder cousin's computer (since we didn't have one of our own). And the game was FIFA '98, Road to the World Cup or just FIFA '98. This is one game everyone remembers playing. Mostly like me, on some older cousin's computer.
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I didn't watch the Euro 2000, so my story starts from the 2002 WC.
1. Group F in 2002 WC: Argentina, England, Sweden, Nigeria. Sweden and England eventually qualified, dumping Argentina in the process. All because of a penalty awarded to Sweden against Nigeria. However there was a bigger upset in the tournament as favourites and defending champs France were unceremoniously chucked out by Senegal.
2. Group D in Euro 2004: Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Germany and Latvia. Germany lost to Czech Republic after a poor show against the Latvian, thanks to the heroics of a certain Milan Baros (hot property of that year).
3. Group E in WC 2006: Lets be honest. The only match we remember from this WC was the Portugal-Netherlands match. Portugal eventually won, 1-0, but not before this dude ----->
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sent off 4 players and handed 16 yellow cards. For the ignorant amongst us, a football game can only involve 28 people at a maximum (considering 3 substitutions per side). There were two groups that were supposed to be the group of death, but considering Ivory Coast and Czech Republic were the only half-way decent teams eliminated, no one gives a damn.
4. Group C in Euro 2008: Italy, France, Netherlands, Romania. Yes, Rank 1,2 and 4 amongst European teams. Also 8 for Romania. But more importantly, both 2006 WC finalists in one group. And needless to say the French Toads got fucked. And how. Ended up at the bottom of the table. Scored 1 goal in the entire tournament. Well, at least they didn't lose to Romania. Vive la France.
5. Group G in World Cup 2010: None. Most evenly balanced pool distribution of all time.
6. Group B in Euro 2012: Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark. All of them finalists, and 3 out of 4 have won the tournament at least once. And already, The Netherlands are pretty screwed.
Which are your favourite GoD's?
3,800,434,765 football fans in the world today.
Disclaimer: I admit, I didn't remember any of the groups for the other tournaments either. I am a lesser lying, cheating, Google surfing scum myself.
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