![]() ![]() They each won once (Spain 4-1, Turkey 1-0), and the Spanish had scored more goals and probably deserved to go through, but it was decreed that a playoff on neutral grounds should take place instead. However, the closest a team has come is during qualification for the 1954 tournament, when such were the vagaries and apparent randomness of FIFA's organisation, some groups contained only two teams one of which featured Spain and Turkey. No team has technically been eliminated from the World Cup via the drawing of lots as yet. Final group games: All the possible permutations However, possibly out of embarrassment about this whole farcical hoopla or alternatively plain-old good sportsmanship, they graciously awarded the cup to Chile presumably accompanied by a patronising pat on the head. With the concept of the penalty shootout still some years away and nobody really with the inclination to stage a replay, the drawing of lots was employed - and would you believe it, the Dutch hosts came up trumps. If this whole affair wasn't bizarre enough, hosts Netherlands faced Chile in the final and the visitors were impudent enough to score an 89th-minute equaliser to claim a 2-2 draw, which obviously then meant there was a requirement to decide who had won this invented, phony trophy. īefore the World Cup, the only real international football tournament was at the Olympics, of which Great Britain won the first four (two as basically club sides under the British flag), while Uruguay waltzed away with the top prize in 19, just as they did with the first official FIFA jamboree in 1930.Īfter the 1928 games, FIFA held a "consolation tournament" for a few of the unlucky teams that didn't strike gold. With the possibility that Iran and Nigeria might have to be separated by the drawing of lots, we take a look at some instances of chance determining the outcome of past games. ![]() ![]() Ashkan Dejagah and Iran have impressed at the World Cup so far but could yet bow out in the cruelest way possible. ![]()
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