Italy Go Top; Del Piero Puts His Foot in His Mouth

First, the good news: As a result of the draw and win in the recent Euro qualifiers, Italy have climbed two spots to the top of FIFA's world rankings. Woo hoo! (Or, since it's Talk Like a Pirate Day: ARRRRR!)

The new top three are Italy, Argentina and Brazil, who had been top but had enough points expire to drop two spots. The leading trio has a significant point advantage over the rest of the crowd, but Germany and the Netherlands climbed into fourth and fifth respectively as a result of their performances over the past few weeks, while the French fell two spots to sixth thanks to that loss to Scotland.

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