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France Are Complaining About Unfair World Cup Playoff System

Hal LaRoux
By Hal LaRoux
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"Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose" says John Delaney as he fires his cravat at the screen reading the Guardian this afternoon.

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Les Bleus believe the system is flawed because fewer ranking points were available in the five-nation Group I while the other sections all contained six teams.

"We're going to contact Fifa," the French Federation's president Noël Le Graët told the radio station RMC. "There is a little injustice between the group of five and the groups of six. Our rivals from other groups have been able to score more points ... that's a fact."

Perhaps they should start planning for their application to be the 33rd team in the World Cup, always a bit of craic to throw that spanner at Sepp Blatter.

France complaining [guardian]

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