Sweden made it ​! We should've won with more than 2-1 vs Latvia though but who cares we're in the euro champs!

btw fuck you david healy how do you feel now back in n.ireland. bitch.

well atleast now with the british nations gone we won't have to deal with hooligans! I bet on croatia vs germany in the finals and that sweden will be beat by croatia in some of the minor finals.

btw fuck you david healy ugly twit

Oh well I guess the better men (Italy and France)

A total of 170 countries will go into Sunday's draw in Durban for the 2010 World Cup preliminary competition.

The teams are chasing 31 places at the World Cup finals, with only hosts South Africa guaranteed a spot at the tournament in 30 months' time.

Even 2006 champions Italy must qualify to defend their title.

There will be 861 qualifying matches to determine the line-up for the 2010 World Cup finals, lasting more than 800 days and finishing in November 2009.

A total of 205 countries entered the preliminaries but five have since withdrawn.

A further 30 were eliminated in pre-preliminary matches played in Africa, Asia and Oceania.

The draw comes four months after the 2010 preliminary campaign kicked off in Samoa in August.
 
Holders Italy will be chasing one of 13 European spots at the finals
The event will see Asia's groups drawn first, followed by those in the Concacaf region, made up of countries in central and north America and the Caribbean.

About an hour into the draw, Europe will be put in the spotlight when its 53 teams are divided into nine qualifying groups - eight of six teams and one of five.

The winners of each European group will qualify for the World Cup finals and the best eight runners-up play off for four more qualifying berths.

The evening rounds off with the draw for the African Zone, where 48 teams will be placed into 12 groups of four teams.

There is no draw for South America and the Oceania region, who have already started their preliminary competition.

..who said they had?