In a classic case of moving the goalposts that comes a close second to the exploits of IFK Gothenburg's Kim Christensen, UEFA have gone ahead with their last-minute plan to seed the World Cup qualifying play-offs. Had this been the plan all along, then nobody would have had a problem, but this idea was only raised a month ago at a time when some of the big names in world football were having a tough time making it through to South Africa.
As it turned out, most of the big, sponsor-friendly names made it through, but France and Portugal have to go through these play-offs and the prospect of them facing each other may have denuded the finals of some top talent. They're among the seeds, unsurprisingly, along with Russia and Greece and they'll face Ukraine, Ireland, Bosnia and Slovenia.
Never will the neutral root more for the underdog.
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