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England V San Marino & Poland World Cup Qualifiers


andykeenan

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Norway beat Cyprus 3-1 away and has had a good qualifying week, with a 1-1 draw away at Switzerland last Friday.

And the U21 beat France 5-3 today and has qualified for the championsship. There are a lot of very talented young Norwegian players now.

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Thanks goodness they are playing it tomorrow - couldn't have stood the Prem being closed down for another weekend to fit this game in. It was hilarious watching Adrian Chiles and Co trying to fill the time until they could go off the air

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Players would always prefer to play without the roof. It changes the humidity and the makes the air much thicker which can make players misjudge crosses, goalkeepers misjudge dives, etc.. They either had a poor weather report which said that the rain was going to be a manageable amount, or they simply decided to risk it because they didn't want to play under conditions they hadn't trained for.

Whether they think the England players could have adapted quicker, or whether we've been training for closed-roof conditions.. but it strikes me that the Polish FA yesterday never had any intention of closing that roof. A very bad error of judgement which I hope really costs them.

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Apparently they had to wait for the rain to stop before closing the roof, which they did about mid-night last night. They've had the under pitch heating on to dry the playing surface. It'll probably cut up like crazy now at game time.

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