Meanwhile, in the Hereward Teamware United Counties League Knockout Cup, the Linnets have been drawn at home to Daventry United or Bourne Town while in the reserve competition Lynn entertain St Neots, with the winners facing either AFC Kempston or Bugbrooke.
Spain's unquestionable class was just enough to edge them past a talented but ill-disciplined Chile team who deservedly joined the European champions in qualifying for the World Cup's knockout stages.
Former US national team coach Steve Sampson believes the American public will now sit up and take notice of the team after qualifying for the knockout stages of the World Cup.
It left the score at 25-10 and although Trevor Leota hit back with a late try, it was not enough for the Londoners who must now travel away in the Cup's knockout stage.
Leicester went into the game as defending champions but were far from favourites after a lacklustre season in which they failed to reach the knockout stages of the Heineken Cup and barely scraped into the play-offs.
With immense pressure on Chukwu and NFA officials to earn their passage to the knockout stages of the Nations Cup, Mohammed did not rule out the dissolution of the NFA board should they fail to live up to expectations in Tunisia.
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Meanwhile, the draw for the third knockout round of the African Confederation Cup has also taken place.
The other reason the league is pre-eminent is that folks have cottoned on to the fact that luck plays a huge part in the FA Cup, like any knockout competition.
The FA Cup, a storied knockout competition that runs in parallel to the Premier League but has no bearing on the standings, is famous for its Cinderella story lines, though they rarely play out until the end.
In the English FA Cup , arguably the most famous domestic knockout competition in world club football, Premier League giant Liverpool was given a scare by fifth tier side Mansfield.
That argument is perhaps backed up by the fact that Spain has now not conceded a knockout-stage goal in any tournament since the 2006 World Cup, a run of nine matches and a remarkable 900 minutes of action.
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England will be eliminated from the World Cup if they are beaten but they could still qualify for the knockout stages with a high-scoring draw in their final Group C game.
The new 12% figure will only be for the first round of the World Cup in South Africa, with the total returning to about eight percent for matches in the knockout phase.
As with every World Cup since 1998, teams must finish in the top two in their group to qualify for the knockout phase.
Logic would suggest success in cup competitions ought not to be factored in at all, because chance plays an even bigger role in knockout tournaments.
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