I am not a huge fan of International Football but I still want our Country to win. If we won the World Cup again I think England would go berserk.
Just reading who has qualified - it might have been easier to write who hasn’t . A selection of those qualified: Qatar Jordan Uzbekistan Cape Verde Canada New Zealand Australia and this is before the lesser teams qualify through the playoffs
Absolutely embarrassing. Nothing to do with excellence, everything to do with brown envelopes & the DEI agenda.
The World Cup finals should be played amongst the elite teams. But it won’t be, greed gets in the way again.
FIFA / UEFA’s rationale is that they are trying to spread the share of the pie. In reality all they are doing is devaluing caps still further, and creating more & more mismatches. In so many games this last week one country / team has been 1/33 in the betting. This cannot be good for football.
In fairness to the Faroes, they have given it a real go this time and recently beat the Czech Republic. I'd love to see them make it to the top table. I think 32 teams works well, as in eight groups of four, with the top two from each group going through. There's a nice symmetry to that. But with 48 there will be teams going through for finishing third. Why reward a team for finishing third out of four? Ludicrous. Having said all that, if someone wants to pay me to attend Cape Verde v Uzbekistan in Miami, I'd be up for that.
FIFA is bought and paid for by Saudi money. The Elite UEFA & South American Nations should form a rival Association. Association Football belongs to the English FA anyway by rights. FIFA are the thieves and imposters. Watch the TV money collapse when FIFA have no decent teams left to represent them. Even the Saudi's couldn't cover that loss.
