The Dutch, who lost in the 1974 and 1978 finals, were bidding to become the first side since Brazil in 1970 to go through World Cup qualifying and the finals unbeaten.
They last competed in the Challenge Cup proper four years ago, reaching the fourth round before losing to Barrow, and Spencely thinks this year's team have the quality to go on another Cup run.
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The defeat to Portsmouth in the FA Cup could have easily swung our way and we gave Birmingham a real good go in the League Cup.
"Fifa will determine which continent the 2018 World Cup will go to in November, " he said.
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"I think the top three Welsh regions go into the European Cup and the fourth goes into the shield next season, " he said.
He said he'd always wanted to go to the World Cup and instead of walking there, wanted to honour the tournament by dribbling a football.
As far as World Cup shocks go this wasn't perhaps on a par with their win over West Indies in 1996, but was certainly more special for being on home soil.
When trying to decide who to marry, who to date with a view to marrying, heck, who to go out with a cup of coffee with before even deciding upon a date, more choice is worse?
The reigning Six Nations champions conceded a mere 15 points on their way to this year's Grand Slam and go to the World Cup ranked second in the world, behind New Zealand, who have won the last three global titles.
For despite winning the 1995 FIFA World Youth Cup and the 2008 Olympic Games with Argentina, Messi has yet to go past the quarterfinals of the World Cup -- and many commentators believe he needs to win that trophy if he is to lay claim to being the greatest footballer the world has ever seen.
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The divorce could go through before the World Cup in South Africa next month, according to reports.
Earlier in 2012, the brand led some right-wing consumers to go elsewhere for their daily cup of Joe after it supported a gay marriage bill.
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But the triumph in Brisbane on Saturday, which sealed their fourth straight Tri-Nations title and their sixth successive Bledisloe Cup, will go some way to answering the critics.
Stoke were thumped by Portsmouth to go out of the Carling Cup with two goals from Frederic Piquionne, and one each from Danny Webber and Kanu earning Pompey victory.
Their inconsistency is frustrating and makes it impossible to predict how much further they will go in the Cricket World Cup, but Andrew Strauss and his team-mates can take a deep breath and just start again.
The FedEx Cup is a four-tournament playoff system in which players accumulate points (similar to NASCAR) that go toward determining the winner of the FedEx Cup.
Who knows, in the next couple of years, hopefully go and try and win a cup.
Winning the FA Cup, and therefore earning a Uefa Cup spot, will go down as one of Portsmouth's finest achievements.
"I don't want to be dictated to by having to go to America to play FedEx Cup when it doesn't really mean that much to me, " said the 37-year-old.
Let's go there and win the World Cup.
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Having won their last two matches 3-0, confidence had been growing in the Scotland camp but the rankings slip likely to follow from this defeat may impact on which pot Craig Levein's men go into in the upcoming World Cup qualifying draw.
His conqueror, Hernando Cortes, asserted in 1528 that a single cup enabled a warrior to go all day without food.
WinSenga will go on to compete in the Imagine Cup Worldwide finals to be held in Sydney, Australia in July.
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The administrator was adamant that all prize money earned by Portsmouth from reaching the FA Cup semi-final would go to the club.
That's when I ordered the cup of hot fudge to go, "in a bag, if you have one, " and slipped it in my purse.
The Scots needed victory in South Africa to secure ODI standing until 2013 but also required other results to go their way to reach the World Cup.
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