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THE WORLD’S WORST

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 December 2016

STEVE CUMBER takes a closer look at those national teams at the bottom of the FIFA world rankings…

THERE was much indignant huffing and puffing back in October when England drew away to Slovenia in their World Cup qualifying match.
The problem seemed not to be that England had drawn but that it was to a team ranked 67th in the FIFA rankings, a team who had the same number of ranking points as Burkina Faso.
This was incredibly condescending to the good folk of that African nation, but this is the British daily press we’re dealing with here, so no surprises.
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