England are down a place to 14th in the Fifa World Rankings this month despite them winning their last 6 games under Sven Goran Ericssson.

What do they have to do to move up?

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

Answers

Ya, weird. But more weird is the fact that Brazil has been no 1 for a very long time despite France winning both the World Championships and the Euro championships. The have finally gone past Brazil now but the ranking system is strange.

And now Sweden have passed Norway again, wawaweewa! =)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2001

USA only one place below us in ranking!!

BTW Sudden, Denmark still above both of you!! (PS I'm not Danish despite the e-mail address, just causing trouble!!)

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001

Ya, they have had a swedish manager for a long while, so the effects of that still pay off =)

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001

Rik, they have to play more games.

The points system works for games played over a time period. The South Americans will be moving all over the place because of the Copa on at the mo.

The others who have been playing are the Asians and Oceania. The european teams have a surge around WC games and EURO championships

gus

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001