We Draw France, Russia or Portugal

[EalingGreen]

what exactly has Domenech done to be labelled a c*** manager?

Wasn't he in charge when they got to the last World Cup Final?. I'm not saying he's not s hite but what's gone on?

Edmundo has already comprehensively outlined his, er, idiosyncratic team selections. However, these are just the symptoms of his condition.

As I said before, the man is barking - if you Google "Domenech" and "Astrology", you'll get plenty of insight into his state of mind, of which the following is just one example:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/england/2295526/Raymond-Domenech-looks-to-the-stars.html

[Razors left peg]

Starting to get really excited about the playoffs already. We always play to the standard of the opposition whether it be Italy or Faroe Islands. We have an annoying habit of just doing enough against poor teams but we always raise our game to the better teams and we are very rarely outclassed completely. No matter who we get we will give them a game and the tension and atmostphere is going to be unbelieveable

[Wolfie]

It could be argued that the sequence of the home and away fixture could be of equal, if not more importance, than who we actually draw.

Would love to get Greece, though.

[paul_oshea]

We always raise our game but we never win(albeit holland), we end up drawing. So the crucial thing is away goals for me. we have to have to score at least one away goal.

Some people are making it sound like we raise our game to the level of a win, but that never, very rarely even, happens. The big guns always do enough to get what they want/need against us ( again bar holland and that was over 8 years ago now! YOu would probably have to go back another 8 for the next one, possibly italy at wc 94, wouldn't include yugoslavia)