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Photograph: Gideon Mendel/Corbis</p> </div> <p></p><p><h2>1. England (1934)</h2></p><p></p><p>You could argue that the most notable absentees at the 1934 World Cup were Uruguay, given they'd won the 1924 and 1928 Olympics and the first staging of Fifa's new baby in 1930. Piqued at Europe's almost total refusal to attend the 1930 event in Montevideo – despite the offer of free travel and board – Uruguay simply didn't bother travelling to Italy, opting to stay at home and sulk instead.</p><p></p><p>But the Uruguayan FA's childish tantrum had nothing on the one England's were throwing. The FA had withdrawn from Fifa in 1928 over some spurious nonsense about player payment, and during the 1930s couldn't even be bothered to reply to invitations to play in the World Cup, snootiness multiplied by xenophobia on the end of a stick. It was hubris on a grand scale: one of the top teams in the world at the time, England could easily have landed at least one of the first three World Cups – and who knows, maybe even all of them.</p><p></p><p>Legendary manager Hugo Meisl opined that England wouldn't have reached the semi-finals in 1934 – they'd lost in Hungary and Czechoslovakia earlier that year – but then his Austria team, paper man Matthais Sindelar and all, were bullied out of the 1934 semi by Luis Monti and Italy, the eventual champions. Which is something that didn't happen to England when the Italians rocked up for a "friendly" at Highbury later in the year.</p><p></p><p>Benito Mussolini had offered every Italian player £150 and a spanking new Alfa Romeo if they won, but the rotund despot was never in danger of coughing. Italy were three down within 12 minutes, a whirlwind passage of play which also saw Ted Drake breaking Monti's ankle, and legendary iron man Wilf Copping putting the fear of god into the Italians simply by staring at them in a very determined way while breathing very heavily through his nose.</p><p></p><p>Italy would pull two goals back, but England – who had drawn in Rome the year before – had comprehensively proved their point against the reigning world champions. (In their own eyes, at least; despite the defeat, the Italian press hailed their team as "gladiators".) However such was the fall-out from the Battle of Highbury – five English players required medical treatment after the game – that the FA briefly considered pulling out of all internationals.</p><p></p><p><h2>2. Scotland (1950)</h2></p><p></p><p>Like England, Scotland boasted one of the world's top sides during the 1930s. Matching the auld enemy step for step, they too were led through the decade by a shower of myopic eejits, and by flouncing out of Fifa with England on flimsy pen-pushing grounds – because they couldn't be bothered to compete with Johnny Foreigner, basically – three chances to make a realistic grab for the World Cup were spurned.</p><p></p><p>However, the Scots can never resist bettering the English at <em>anything</em>, and so in 1950 the SFA really went all-out for it with the most self-defeating decision in the history of All Sport. Fifa were desperate to get as many Europeans to that year's World Cup in Brazil as possible, in order to avoid the continental snub suffered by Uruguay in 1930. Incredibly generously, they offered places to the top two finishers in the 1950 Home Internationals. Incredibly foolishly, the Scottish FA announced that they'd only accept a place if they'd won the thing.</p><p></p><p>When it all came down, Scotland needed a draw against England at Hampden to win the Home Championship and secure their passage to Brazil. England, assured of at least second spot and a place in the World Cup even if they lost, swanned around not giving two hoots. The pressure was off the visitors, and very much on their insufferably pompous hosts; sure enough, England won 1-0 as the Scots put in a desperate performance (Willie Bauld hit the bar while the usually reliable Willie 'The Deedle' Waddell missed from close range, but that was about it).</p><p></p><p>Scotland captain George Young, with the backing of England's Billy Wright, pleaded with SFA suit George Graham to change his mind and allow the Scots to travel to Brazil, but the cantankerous old scrote insisted he would not go back on his word. It really took something to better India's preposterous reason for not competing in the tournament – some of the Indians refused to play with boots on – but Scotland managed it. The daft buggers.</p><p></p><p><h2>3. Scotland (1962)</h2></p><p></p><p>If Scotland were the authors of their own downfall in 1950, they were decidedly more unfortunate in their bid to reach the 1962 finals in Chile. Up against group rivals Czechoslovakia – their star man Josef Masopust would go on to score the opening goal in the 1962 final and later be named European footballer of the year – the Scots were trounced 4-0 in Bratislava but wiped out the result with a battling 3-2 win at Hampden. (Goal difference? Goal average? Pah!) Twice a goal down, Scotland equalised twice before Denis Law scored a late winner which, according to this paper, "raised the greatest roar in years from the Hampden terraces" and "erased from Scottish minds years of frustration and humbling defeats".</p><p></p><p>Like that slate was going to stay wiped clean for long. This was the best post-war Scottish team, perhaps the best of all time: up front the world-class Law was paired with the lesser-talented (yet still fairly exceptional) Ian St John, the midfield was built around the wispy skills of Tottenham's John White and a still-slim Jim Baxter, and nobody was going to embarrass a defence containing Billy McNeill and Eric Caldow. But arguably their most influential player – the workaholic Dave Mackay – was injured for the subsequent play-off against the Czechs, who took the Spurs midfielder's absence as an invitation to kick Baxter around neutral Brussels like an old sock.</p><p></p><p>Even then, Scotland went desperately close. They led twice, thanks to a pair of St John headers, but were pegged back each time. With one minute to go, Law's drive went inches wide – and then seconds later he hit the crossbar. Then, just after the start of extra time, White sent the Czech bar rattling for the second time – at which point the Czechs ran off down the other end to score the killer goal. The match ended 4-2.</p><p></p><p>There have been other teams from the British Isles who have come close to knocking out teams that would go on to take a finals by storm. The Republic of Ireland made France sweat over their participation in 1982, beating them 3-2 in Dublin only to be edged out on goal difference as Michel Platini's side – eventually the unluckiest semi-final losers of all time – beat Holland and Cyprus in their remaining fixtures. Meanwhile Wales were a Paul Bodin penalty away from taking a place at the 1994 finals from Romania, who would be by a long chalk the best team of that year's tournament (oh yes they were). But Ireland and Wales were unlikely to have troubled the business end of either of those finals. This Scotland team, however, would have fancied their chances in what would be a low-quality World Cup, having proved their worth against a team only bested by Garrincha's Brazil. The second round at least, that's all we're saying.</p><p></p><p><h2>4. USSR (1974)</h2></p><p></p><p>The Soviets had won three of their four matches in their qualifying group for the 1974 World Cup in West Germany – France and the Republic of Ireland had offered little resistance – but the team's poor goalscoring record meant that while the winners of the other three-team groups (Poland, Yugoslavia and Scotland) marched on, the Red Army could only advance by beating Chile in a play-off.</p><p></p><p>Events would conspire against the USSR, however. Two weeks before the first leg in Moscow in September 1973, Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état by Margaret Thatcher's genocidal chum Augusto Pinochet. As the presidential palace was surrounded, Allende took his own life. Pinochet rounded up dissenters, detaining and torturing them in Santiago's Estadio Nacional, venue of the 1962 World Cup final.</p><p></p><p>It was reported that 41 people were killed at the stadium – although witnesses put the number much higher – with prisoners left to starve in locked changing rooms, their bodies thrown in basements to rot. But this was adroitly hidden from view of a visiting Fifa delegation including members of the international press corps – and so the second leg was scheduled to go ahead in November.</p><p></p><p>The Soviets refused to visit Santiago under the new military regime, both on ideological grounds and in protest to rumours surrounding the Estadio Nacional's use. (Cynics would point out, however, that the protest was only lodged after Chile had held them 0-0 at home in the first leg.) Chile turned up on their own, their captain Francisco Valdés rolled the ball into an empty net, and the game was won by default. The Soviets would not qualify for another major tournament until 1982.</p><p></p><p><h2>5. Holland (1986)</h2></p><p></p><p>"What goes around comes around" is of course a lot of bull, pish, tish and mummery, but as ever there's an exception that proves the rule. In 1973, in the decisive match of a tight World Cup qualifying group, a dramatic last-minute strike by Jan Verheyen should have sent Belgium to the 1974 World Cup finals at the expense of opponents Holland. Inexplicably, Verheyen's goal was ruled out for offside despite three defenders being in the road, and so Johan Cruyff and chums got their chance to fanny around unprofessionally in the final and wow the world with their Total Football project instead.</p><p></p><p>Twelve years later, Belgium would somehow square the karmic circle. The Dutch had come second in a tough group behind a highly promising young Hungarian side – who would spectacularly fail to live up to that promise, shipping six against USSR in their first finals match, but that's another story – while Belgium were pipped by perennial qualifiers Poland. It meant the two teams were forced to play off for a place in Mexico.</p><p></p><p>Belgium won the first leg in Brussels thanks to a Franky Vercauteren strike. The second leg in Rotterdam would be as intense as they come. Belgium should have put the result beyond doubt early on – Vercauteren and Jan Ceulemans were both set free on goal only to suffer thundering panic attacks – as a desperate Holland began to serve up Total Garbage. Hoofing long balls into the box, their play was described by The Guardian's David Lacey as similar to "Sheffield Wednesday on a bad day".</p><p></p><p>With Marco van Basten and Wim Kieft suspended, the jig looked up. But with half an hour to go, Peter Houtman crashed in a header for the home side to level the tie – and then with 17 minutes left the up-and-coming Ruud Gullit's determined run set up Rob de Wit to put the Dutch 2-0 up. On the terraces, the oranje-clad chanted "Mexico!" and frugged wildly in delight – until five minutes from time, whereupon Georges Grun slammed in a header to plunge De Kuip into an instant depression. Belgium would go on to reach the semi-finals; Gullit and Frank Rikjaard would have to wait another two years to show the world what they could do.</p><p></p><p><h2>6. Zambia (1994)</h2></p><p></p><p>Zambia had just beaten Mauritus 3-0 in a qualifier for the 1994 African Nations Cup, and were en route to Senegal to play their first match in their attempt to get to the World Cup finals in America. The side, built around PSV Eindhoven winger Kalusha Bwalya, was the best in Zambia's history, and the Chipolopolo – the Copper Bullets – were hopeful of reaching the finals of both tournaments. But their plane would not make it to Senegal.</p><p></p><p>On the morning of 28 April 1993, it was confirmed that their military jet, which had stopped in Gabon to refuel, had crashed just off the coast a few minutes after taking off. One of the engines on the plane had caught fire, and the pilot, who had already flown the leg from Mauritius to Gabon, had shut down the wrong engine in a tired panic. The plane plummeted into the sea, killing all 30 passengers. In total 19 players were killed, wiping out the entire squad apart from Zambia's five overseas-based players, including Bwalya, who had separate arrangements made for them. A week later the bodies were flown back to Zambia and thousands lined the streets outside the Stadium of Independence.</p><p></p><p>Bwalya helped to quickly assemble a new team of untested players, but World Cup redemption would be beyond them. In their final match in Morocco, Zambia needed only a point to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, and were 40 minutes away from realising their dream when Moroccan striker Abdeslam Laghrissi scored to secure a 1-0 victory. "We were so close yet so far away," said Bwalya. "I think about the people at home and our friends who died. We are all very disappointed. After five months of hard work, we didn't deserve to go out like this." Zambia would, however, take some solace from the African Nations Cup, Bwalya leading them to the final which they lost 2-1 to Nigeria. 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