Not good enough to qualify from the Asian stages means that quite frankly, they aint good enough to be seen on the World stage. No sympathy. Nobody's asking for 'sympathy', chief. Just for teams to be playing in their own continent. You'd support club teams doing what Australia did, would you? Celt...

at the expense of whom? i think that they got pretty much the slots they deserved, and continue to deserve At the expense of Australia, for one. They should be kicked out of the AFC and go back to playing in their own continent. There were no teams from West Asia at this World Cup. A travesty, sure...

Japan were excellent at this World Cup. The performance against Denmark was nothing short of scintillating, and one of the best 90 minutes played by any team at this tournament. Hiro, don't count Australia as an Asia team. They are nothing less than impostors strutting uninvited on the Asian stage. ...

My Top 3:

1. Colne Dynamoes
2. Third Lanark
3. Zebra Morioka

Why is it that club's who go out of business, generally speaking, have bizarre or unusual names?

The Emperor Showa (d.1989) of Japan was reportedly a keen fan of Boston United. It is sad on many levels that he did not live to see their rise into the League and their subsequent precipitous fall into the lower echelons of the English football pyramid. He once watched a Northern League fixture fro...