Quote Originally Posted by trampie09 View Post
Wales would have won the 2011 RWC if they had not had a half French referee [French name, French father, French speaker, French passport ?]against France sending a Welsh player off early in the semi final, Wales would have beaten NZ in the final with some ease at that point in time, France were unlucky on the day in that final.

Wales would have won the 1934 football WC had we entered, many regarded the winners of the Home Internationals as the best in the World at that time and we had won it twice on the trot prior to the WC and England then beat Italy in the battle of Highbury after the WC, so we might well have won it.
Wales would have won the 1958 WC if our best player in the World had not been kicked out of tournament, we had nobody to put the ball in the net in the quarter final and lost 1-0 after putting loads of crosses in and nobody in the middle to score against a team that scored 5 in the final.
Sorry but both of your points here are bollocks.
New Zealand would have been massive favourites in the 2011 world cup, we would have had a chance, but there's no way I can see us beating them with ease at that time.

Also there is very little evidence to suggest we would have won the 1934 world cup. The home nations hardly played any other international teams in that period and before, and when they did, they didn't always win. It is just arrogance that makes us assume that the home nations would have walked the early world cups. Especially when you consider that when they did start to play in them they weren't exactly a major force.