Eurosport - Thu, 04 Jun 12:12:00 2009
England have jumped one place to sixth in FIFA's latest world rankings.
After no movement in the top 39 places last month, there was plenty of activity this time with Fabio Capello's side leapfrogging old rivals Argentina into sixth spot.
European champions Spain completed a year on top of the table, while the Netherlands moved up to second place for the first time in almost four years.
World champions Italy moving up a place to fourth, Germany down one to third and Brazil down one to fifth.
Paraguay, top of the South American World Cup qualifying zone, were the biggest movers among leading nations, jumping up from 17th to 13th while Serbia and Ukraine moved into the top 20 at the expense of Cameroon and Bulgaria.
The rankings are based on team's performances over the last four years.
FIFA RANKINGS
(last month's positions in brackets)
1. (1) Spain
2. (3) Netherlands
3. (2) Germany
4. (5) Italy
5. (4) Brazil
6. (7) England
7. (6) Argentina
8. (8) Croatia
9. (9) Russia
10. (10) France
11. (11) Portugal
12. (14) Turkey
13. (17) Paraguay
14. (15) United States
15. (12) Czech Republic
16. (18) Switzerland
17 = (13) Greece
17 = (16) Uruguay
19. (22) Ukraine
20. (23) Serbia
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If the England football team are funny then the Scottish football team & any other team you have are just hilarious!
Most of the British athletes are English & so are Button & Hamilton, & as for being better off without us you must be kidding seeing as all you Scottish like to do is slag everyone off, most of you would struggle to tie your shoe laces on your own :)
You sound like you've fried a few to many brain cells sitting down the pub watching England play football lol!!
I suppose the fact Scotland hardly qualify for anything doesn't bother you as you can always watch your curling champions rotflmao!!!!!
ok im sorry i made your tummy hurt laughing but the england football team have been doing that to me for years. firstly i will remind u that england don't compete at the Olympics Britain do and many of the medals won were won by Scottish athletes , Chris hoy for example. Button and Hamilton represent Britain as did one of the greatest champions in history Jacky Stewart he was Scottish but in motor racing and the Olympics they represent Britain and as for bleeding england dry u have been living off our oil for decades Scotland would be a far richer country with out england that is the main reason our English politicians want to keep the union.
Curling champs lol stop it please my tummy hurts from so much laughter!!
Being called arrogant by someone Scottish really is funny, we won our fair share of Olympic medals & Rugby world champions not all that long ago, we've got some good boxers & good athletes ready for next Olympics a football team that's looking on the up :)
A good couple of formula one drivers in Button & Hamilton & that's just off the top of my head & the best you could come up with was curling champions LOL!
You are a country of five million to many & do nothing but spend your time slagging us off & bleeding us dry, your a country that have achieved nothing & probably wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for us :)
Your highlight of most championships is hoping we get knocked out so you can have a dig when most times you didn't even qualify!!
I bet you five million pork pies & a wee dram of whisky that we qualify & you don't & our rugby team gives yours a spanking next time they play :)
Scotland population 5 million ,england almost 60 million u have 10 times the population to chose from and yet your record in major sporting events its shocking you are the most over rated arrogant nation in the world name me one thing england are currently world champs at Scotland are world curling champs 1-0 to us i think
England are 6th just behind Brazil, Scotland are 22nd just behind Cameroon lol!
Enough said lol!!!!
Please name one thing Scotland are better than England at & I may consider taking you seriously?
What's cricket lol!!
Didn't England beat Scotland the other day lol, you Scottish really are quite slow.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahah ahahahahahaha
Scotland cant even morris dance lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lets talk about cricket now humped by Holland is there anything england are good at oh yes your bloody good morris dancers hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahaha
LOL at the Scottish, you lost to Macedonia what are you chatting about??
There's been plenty of times when England have come close to winning more trophies, when have Scotland challenged for anything let alone win anything?
There may be the odd Vicky Pollard lookalike in England but they are few & far between all the intelligent good looking girls.
Everyone in Scotland is either overweight or has the IQ of my goldfish!
tommyfcb2006 & allan m your the only bitter ones as you know your from a country that cant win at anything let alone at football, even your rugby team is terrible.
Yes the Germans have a very successful football team good for them, unfortunately for you your not German :)
Also, European girls are much better looking. If you were to throw a stone into an english town centre it would probably hit a girl looking like Vicky pollard!!
1966! Wow thats a LONG time ago!!!!
Yes we are very jealous. Lets compare england with Germany.
Germany have won 3 world cups and three European championships and have been in 13 major tournament finals.
England have only ever been in 1 final way back in 66.
Is this why the english are so bitter!!!!!
does the m in allan m stand for mong
oh yes i seem to remember Macedonia what was the score 2-2 at wembly
888 that was hilarious thanks you have cheered me right up as i was getting so depressed because big brother starts in 20 mins keep on dreaming my friend
allan m you Scottish make me lol, Cant even beat teams like Macedonia but still got the cheek to have a dig at us lol.
England where two goals to the good in 66 so we would have won anyway :) & Sols goal disallowed in 98 when we should have beat Argentina, unlucky to go out in penalties in 96! We would have won more trophies if it wasn't for a bit of bad luck & dodgy decisions due to everyone hating England including refs.
What have Scotland got to shout about lol!!!!
We are 6th in the world ranking's & climbing get over it, lets all laugh at Scotland the most useless country in existence, ha ha ha ha ha!
So much jealousy from all you European lady boys & The Scottish, we are sixth in the world ranking's & when Rooney Walcott & Gerrard hit form we'll soon be higher :)
We created football & we are bringing it home, Scotland created Haggis & will be sitting at home eating it while everyone else is at the world cup lol.
You've lost two & drawn once in a group which includes Macedonia, Iceland & Norway ha ha ha I'm gonna wee with laughter!
Please Don't try & answer this back as you'll just embarrass yourself further, your jealous because your always in our shadow & so is the rest of Europe as they know we are the daddy :)
bloody hell u English are so easy to wind up Ive not laughed so much since Croatia knocked u out in euro qualifiers. Face these facts if u will england one of the biggest football nations in the world 1 stolen world cup to your name 43 years ago about as poor as it gets i would say.heres to 43 more.
ALAN M IF ENGLAND ARE AVERAGE WHAT DOES THAT MAKE SCOTLAND!!!YOU SCOTTISH PRI;CK
SORRY MICK O I MEANT ALAN M
888 YOUR THE MAN TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!! ENGLAND 4EVER!!!!!!! MICK O IS ANOB
England is the BEST!!!
allan m is a nob
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