The Gardeners' World Blog

I'm proud to say that our World Cup Predictor was published on the night of the draw last December. But I now wonder whether we did it too soon!

The problem is that the rules for qualification Fifa told us last October, when we were building the application, are different to what is now on their site - bottom of page 40, artical 31.5, of this link if you're really interested.

So goal difference will be used to determine the order of teams in groups, as it has been in previous World Cups. We were originally told that Germany 2006 would follow the Champions League convention of using results between teams to sort out the order.

I know what you're saying now. "So what, it ought to be an easy change - just reorder the way it does it sums and off we go."

If only....