... is a spot in South Africa
In a matter of what's now fast becoming a bit of a national embarrassment Sepp Blatter - the Jabba the Hutt of FIFA - revealed today that the FAI requested that Ireland be made the 33rd team at next year's World Cup in South Africa.
I mean we're still smarting here after l'affaire de Henry's bleedin' mit - I for one can't play FIFA 10 now without coming out with a rash - but requests like that are never going to happen.
You might as well ask the powers that be to allow everyone in a green jersey free entry to the finals or , as to change the entire system of the World Cup and allow one extra team.
And how would it work? Seven groups of four teams and one group of five? A fight to the death between us and the France in the middle of Jo'burg? Or simply an automatic spot for us in the semis for not being dirty little cheats (unless we're playing Georgia)?
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