Category Archives: Football (All)

211 To 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 – (VI) March Madness

Posted on Apr 8, 2021 by NFB

Part One: The Beginning Part Two: The Road Broadens Part Three: Dreaming In Asia Part Four: Football In The Time Of COVID Part Five: Getting On With It Four months after the last game of World Cup qualifying the whole … Continue reading →

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211 To 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 – (V) Getting On With It

Posted on Dec 23, 2020 by NFB

Part One: The Beginning Part Two: The Road Broadens Part Three: Dreaming In Asia Part Four: Football In The Time Of COVID With the world learning to keep going despite the threat of the virus, World Cup qualification soldiered on. … Continue reading →

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211 To 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 – (IV) Football In The Time Of COVID

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 by NFB
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211 to 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 – (III) Dreaming In Asia

Posted on Aug 12, 2020 by NFB

Part One: The Beginning Part Two: The Road Broadens With the early sections of African qualifying finished the focus swings firmly back to Asia, with the other confederations still to begin. The Second Round of AFC qualification sees the heavy-hitters … Continue reading →

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211 to 1: Reflections On The Road to Qatar 2022 – (II) The Road Broadens

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 by NFB

Part One of this series, “The Beginning”, can be found here. The earliest games of World Cup qualifying concerned Asia only; now additional confederations begin their qualification processes. But the earliest games in Africa concern more than football, shining a … Continue reading →

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211 To 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 – (I) The Beginning

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 by NFB

The below is the first part of a series I started writing in April of last year. It’s been a while since I have properly talked about football on this site, but after the end of the last World Cup, … Continue reading →

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The FAI (16 Days To Election)

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 by NFB

Today, lets talk about a political grenade of significantly less seriousness than rent or insurance, but one that is certainly close to many peoples hearts all the same. The Football Association of Ireland is a basket case of an organisation, … Continue reading →

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World Cup 2018: Rankings (4-1)

Posted on Jul 16, 2018 by NFB

The tournament is done and dusted, and we have our final four. You can see my other rankings at these links – #32-17, 16-9, 8-5. 4. England (+22) Well, this was an improvement, huh? Even early on in the first … Continue reading →

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World Cup 2018: Final Predictions

Posted on Jul 12, 2018 by NFB

Final rankings will come after the 3rd/4th Place Play-Off and the Final, but for the moment, just quick predictions after I was one for two on the semis (38/62 or 61%). It’s the game no-one wants to play, but 3rd … Continue reading →

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World Cup 2018: Rankings (8-5) And Semi-Final Predictions

Posted on Jul 9, 2018 by NFB

From eight to four. With the Quarter-Finals wrapped up, here’s my rankings of #8-5, ranked by losing margin in the last game, then continuing criteria if required, with ranking relative to 2014 included also. 8. Sweden (Beaten 2-0, +2 GD) … Continue reading →

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