MiceOnMeth
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Sounds shit.
Wait until they have a tie break between 8th and 9th best placed 3rd teams. It’ll be decided by which country has most stars in their flag.Shit format. Any format where teams can play on results sucks.
Wouldn't take me long to come up with a much better one for 48 teams with less games.
Yeah, it's silly. The archaic group stages should be gone at this point.Wait until they have a tie break between 8th and 9th best placed 3rd teams. It’ll be decided by which country has most stars in their flag.
Final a week later so basically no pre season/rest if league seasons still starting on second weekend of August.Yeah it doesn’t seem too big an issue in terms of fatigue. It’s just the fact there’s going to be so many rubbish games where it’s just a formality.
This seems very possible.I swear the expansion to the World Cup is just Fifa's ploy to get China, comfortably football's largest untapped market, to qualify for every tournament from 2026 onwards.
I get that but it’s very unlikely any club is going to be impacted majorly. At most, some teams will have 2 maybe 3 players back late due to being in a World Cup final.Final a week later so basically no pre season/rest if league seasons still starting on second weekend of August.
Because the broken method makes more money than the fixed method.This is bullshit. There’s feck all wrong with the current format - why fix/amend something that doesn’t need fixing/amending?
Looks like the extra week will be by reducing the pre-world cup preparation time.Final a week later so basically no pre season/rest if league seasons still starting on second weekend of August.
The extra week will be found by cutting the pre-tournament release period from 23 days to 16, which is slightly less than previous summer tournaments but twice as long as players were given to prepare for the World Cup in Qatar. Although the official date for the opening match has not yet been announced, FIFA is on course to maintain the tournament’s “footprint” to 56 days, 16 days before it starts and then 39 days of competition.
What this change means for the allocation of games between the three host nations remains to be seen, as the US was staging 60 games in the original format, with Canada and Mexico getting 10 each.
I really like these new ideas about an expanded club world cup. Been wanting that for years. The world cup is perfect as it is though IMOMore games - yes please. Also enjoy watching the small nations.
Doesn't bother me.
+1Sounds shit.
My thoughts too. Like to watch every World Cup match where possible, the more the merrier!More games - yes please. Also enjoy watching the small nations.
The problem isn't that it's new or a change. The problem is that it's shitWhy are people first instinct about something new is always to moan? I don't see anything egregious having an extra game to win it all. Sport tournaments around the world have always evolve and change with time, they never stay constant.
You haven't even gotten to experience it yet you're already proclaiming it to be shit.The problem isn't that it's new or a change. The problem is that it's shit
Every 2 monthsIt's only going to get bigger from here, too much money to ignore. Every 2 years? Probably.
Euro 2021 was a proxy tbf.You haven't even gotten to experience it yet you're already proclaiming it to be shit.
Or the problem is that many people think that something new is automatically going to be shit.The problem isn't that it's new or a change. The problem is that it's shit
Exactly. It doesn't matter what it is, the first reactions are always moans about something new being introduced. Happened with VAR, happened with 5 substitutions, etc.Or the problem is that many people think that something new is automatically going to be shit.
There are some really good reasons why people think its shit. Its not a simple case of complaining for the sake of complaining.Exactly. It doesn't matter what it is, the first reactions are always moans about something new being introduced. Happened with VAR, happened with 5 substitutions, etc.
People don't even wait to see how things pan out or even sit back a few seconds and weight with some thoughts of whether it's actually a good or bad idea. The immediate reaction is always "let's complain" because new things apparently equal bad and the game being destroyed. I'm not even sure if most folks realize that a lot about the game is vastly different from when it was played, said in the 1950s, whether it's the rules of the game or competitions.
They tried the 3 team group in the EURO's in 2016 (I think) and it was a disaster, 48 teams makes it more likely there will be teams there that would never otherwise get there - not sure if it 's a good thing or not but we'll never know until it's triedThey're such money grabbing cnuts. The 3 team group they initially proposed sounded great because there would have essentially been no dead rubber games in the group stage. Now they've backtracked on this it just means a drop in the quality of group stage fixtures with no added jeopardy, along with the extra game.
They did just the opposite, 4 team groups and teams in third place were allowed to go through. Like Portugal who won the whole thing.They tried the 3 team group in the EURO's in 2016 (I think) and it was a disaster, 48 teams makes it more likely there will be teams there that would never otherwise get there - not sure if it 's a good thing or not but we'll never know until it's tried