New Zealand?

News has reached me that New Zealand will meet Bahrain in a decisive home play-off in a months time, after they drew 0-0 in Bahrain at the weekend

That's New Zealand, ranked 100 in the world, 90 minutes away from a solid world cup spot

They last entered in 1982 (surprising, I know, and their only ever world cup goals were against Scotland...) - so technically this is a bigger achievement for Bahrain (population 800,000), but who cares about them, eh?

It's still an outside shot - but surely a home tie against the 64th best team in the world is as good as it gets?...Iceland would certainly jump at it

I guess the Ozzies moving to Asia helped someone else too

Meanwhile in the next 48 hours, Maradona will show us all exactly how infallible the CONMEBOL system is as his team fail to throw away their chance - should they lose against local rivals Uruguay they are virtually assured the play-off as Ecuador will need to beat 3rd placed Chile

Although you never know- maybe Honduras will do the business