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What a nonsense concept. It will just dilute the quality of football on offer. There won't be any meaningful games until the quarter finals at least.
Concacaf more spots than south America??Tweet
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Huge jumps for Asia and Africa. 60% of South America will be there.
The way you describe it, i agree that i will not be good for entertainment. Nevertheless, i suspect that a win in the shootout won't give the team the whole three points. Maybe the shootout will award an extra point to the team that wins it.I can just see teams doing a N Ireland or Plymouth for the whole match, sitting back for the penalties. Even worse you could have two of them doing the same. Great entertainment, not.
La Liga is not happy & talking about legal action of some sort. If the four big leagues revolt & go their own way, the whole pack of cards would come crumbling down. Come on La Liga, Premiership, Bundasliga, & Serie A show some b*lls.
LOL. That seems a lot of work to get Qatar in, cause nobody else from the money countries would have qualified for the last World Cup, even with the new allocations. No India, China, Bahrain or Trinidad/Tobago.Tweet
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Huge jumps for Asia and Africa. 60% of South America will be there.
Why would La Liga care?I can just see teams doing a N Ireland or Plymouth for the whole match, sitting back for the penalties. Even worse you could have two of them doing the same. Great entertainment, not.
La Liga is not happy & talking about legal action of some sort. If the four big leagues revolt & go their own way, the whole pack of cards would come crumbling down. Come on La Liga, Premiership, Bundasliga, & Serie A show some b*lls.
That's why we make it 64 teams, not 48.I can just see teams doing a N Ireland or Plymouth for the whole match, sitting back for the penalties. Even worse you could have two of them doing the same. Great entertainment, not.
Don't see how they would have a leg to stand on. They would be okay with letting Spanish players go but not players from other countries?La Liga is not happy & talking about legal action of some sort. If the four big leagues revolt & go their own way, the whole pack of cards would come crumbling down. Come on La Liga, Premiership, Bundasliga, & Serie A show some b*lls.
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I don't actually mind that part.I confidently predict this new format will be a complete disaster. 3 team groups - seriously?! I can see why it would be popualar with the Federations but for the fans this is not a good day for football.
Could see myself enjoying that.Group A
Russia
Senegal
New Zealand
Group B
Argentina
Italy
Iran
Group C
Brazil
Iceland
Costa Rica
Group D
Germany
Cote d'Ivoire
Korea Republic
Group E
Chile
Netherlands
Mexico
Group F
Belgium
Tunisia
Japan
Group G
Colombia
Republic of Ireland
USA
Group H
France
Egypt
Australia
Group I
Portugal
Algeria
Panama
Group J
Uruguay
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Group K
Spain
Congo DR
Haiti
Group L
Switzerland
Burkina Faso
Uzbekistan
Group M
Wales
Nigeria
Honduras
Group N
England
Ghana
United Arab Emirates
Group O
Croatia
Peru
Qatar/Curacao
Group P
Poland
Slovakia
China PR
Was thinking the same.Could see myself enjoying that.
That's not that bad, but the teams playing arent the troubleIf this was implemented for 2018 with the top FIFA ranked nations from each continent getting through, the tournament would contain the following (assuming the figures from that tweet were correct):
Curaçao-Uzbekistan followed by Haiti-Burkina Faso. A perfect, classic WC evening
Seems alright to me but this path makes of maximum of seven games.So, 16 groups have three matches (48) -> last 32 (16 matches) -> last 16 (8) -> quarters (4) -> semi (2) -> for bronze (1) -> final (1)
80 matches, 8 played for the semi-finalists
64 matches, 8 played for the semi-finalists - (last time, right?)
Got that correctly?
Yep, was already corrected before. Counted for semi-finalists both bronze and final matches, but they play just one of them obviously.Seems alright to me but this path makes of maximum of seven games.
Genuinely thought you were saying 'Yahoo! Ireland' were going to put forward a team.Yahoo! Ireland will qualify for every single world cup after 2026! Guaranteed international piss up en masse every 4 years. Lovely!
It's not a special when you qualify every year. It's going to be woeful.Yahoo! Ireland will qualify for every single world cup after 2026! Guaranteed international piss up en masse every 4 years. Lovely!
This was exactly my first thought. They want to tap into the massive emerging Asian markets and like you say all three of those in a World Cup (probably impossible in a 32) would probably increase TV viewers massively.From 16 (1978) to 24 to 32 to 48. What next, 64? I imagine the FIFA dream is to allow enough entrants so that China, India and Indonesia can all qualify, with the huge number of new viewers more than offsetting the fact that people in more established, less populous football nations will lose interest.
Same. Look at the thread we're in. Yahoo buying Ireland, as a macabre corporations taking over jokes makes sense to me.Genuinely thought you were saying 'Yahoo! Ireland' were going to put forward a team.
What's the problem then?That's not that bad, but the teams playing arent the trouble
Things like this are suggested all of the time, and it rarely, if ever happens. Teams often find themselves in situations with 'nothing' to play for, but they don't just play out draws for the sake of it. If it did happen, there would uproar and regardless of any previous history, FIFA would have to do something about it. In all likelihood, scorelines and results are going to differ anyway.Dumb, corrupt shitbags being as dumb and as corrupt as ever.
Oh look, 3 teams in a group. Game 1: team A and team B draw. Game 2: C beats A. Game 3: B and C deliberately play out a draw because it guarentees they both progress, while A get to watch the collusion live on the telly with whatever tiny little audience is left.
Why bring this on ourselves, so we can get to see more countries that are shit at football but more than willing to line our pockets.
3 team groups. The "no draws" thing will help, but it will be hardly worth watching until the knockouts.What's the problem then?
We saw in the expanded Euros that 3rd placed teams going through put a bit of a dampener on things, so I'm quite excited at the prospect of a new, shorter group stage. The only thing I have reservations about is absolute ties between teams, because two games isn't much, and drawing lots would be a terrible way to decide who goes through.
I prefer the knockouts to the groups, they're more exciting, so an extra round of knockouts is a big plus for me. I also think the 3 team groups could make it more exciting. No one's going to want to risk being knocked out based on the drawing of lots, or by losing on penalties, so teams will have to go for the win. Obviously if the penalties thing gets agreed, then we might see a couple of the poorer teams take their chances at parking the bus, but it's not actually that successful of a tactic when there's a clear difference in the quality of the teams.3 team groups. The "no draws" thing will help, but it will be hardly worth watching until the knockouts.
Last 32, Like the world cup as it is now, but as a knockout.