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World cup 48 teams. utter crap.

mikenz

31 Mar 17 09:00

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Aint been here 4 a while but thought id start a thread about 48 team world cup, stupid stupid stupid, its probably got enough teams now, the pool of 4 are best as no team can chuck a game as last games in pool played together, at present the qualifying matches are feely interesting, under this idea a lot of matches will mean nought as teams will just stroll through games if they make it through easy, personally international sport should be the pinnacle , this idea will discredit it massively, im in new zealand , we in oceania get a automatic place, i dont think thats good if we aint good enough, but i do think the present idea where we have to play a south american team is wrong, we should play a asian side, south america should play a north american team,all in all a shambles how do ppl who are so dumb end up in these jobs , its got me beat.

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Report themover • March 31, 2017 9:11 AM BST

Proposed qualifier format:

Europe: 16 teams (up from 13)
Asia: Eight (up from four and a play-off spot)
Oceania: one (up from a play-off spot)
Africa: Nine (up from five)
South America: six (up from four and a play-off spot)
CONCACAF: six (up from three and a play-off spot)

Report n88uk • March 31, 2017 11:42 AM BST

South Americans get as robbed in that proposed format as anybody. Albeit it's a small continent, but their 7th best team is likely far better than some of those qualifiers from Asia.

For Asia that would currently mean: Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Syria, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, UAE.

Report bigH • March 31, 2017 12:39 PM BST

It's a fairly basic corruption heat map

Report scandanavian_haven • March 31, 2017 12:45 PM BST

more countries = more votes for the Infantino.

Report morpteh mackem • March 31, 2017 12:50 PM BST

why stop at 48 ?

Report pushkin99 • March 31, 2017 3:45 PM BST

I suppose 48 gives a little more hope to minnows such as the sweaty socks. Probably need at least double that though to have a reasonable chance of qualifying again this millennium.

Report the bairn • March 31, 2017 4:47 PM BST

always have to get a dig in about Scotland, give it a rest ffs. your country only qualify and that's it. now move on. cheers.

Report asparagus • March 31, 2017 7:25 PM BST

N88uk, Not sure South America get robbed. There are only 10 teams competing and 6 qualify. That's perfectly generous. Europe come off worst imo.

Report scandanavian_haven • March 31, 2017 7:55 PM BST

yeah, it's harder not to qualify in South America than it is to qualify

Report roache • March 31, 2017 8:56 PM BST

Groups of 3 are a joke and then its straight to a knock out a la FA cup and if Lincoln city can make the quarters theres always hope for England

Report mikenz • March 31, 2017 10:33 PM BST

Mar 31, 2017 -- 8:56PM, roache wrote:

Groups of 3 are a joke and then its straight to a knock out a la FA cup and if Lincoln city can make the quarters theres always hope for England

thats what i find hard to understand, 3 in a group 4 is good , last games played together, only way to go.

Report mikenz • March 31, 2017 10:39 PM BST

maybe 12 groups of 4 might be ok, 12 pool winners go through then 4 more places, say for instance of the 2nd teams the two top fifa ranked teams go through, maybe then the top team on goals scored and perhaps the highest flag points from round one or something similer.

Report roache • March 31, 2017 11:04 PM BST

They should have increased it to 40 teams retaining the 8 groups but now of 5 teams instead of the present 4 with top 2 progressing and yes i know all the final games cannot be played at the same time as 5 into 4 doesn't go but it could be arranged whereby the lowest seeded team from that group completes there quota of 4 games first then the remaining 4 teams complete there last fixture simultaneously and they all have the advantage in doing so because they are higher seeded.The only complication will be rest times between games as some teams would get less or more than others within that group but again that can be arranged by seeding order.

Report mikenz • March 31, 2017 11:17 PM BST

Mar 31, 2017 -- 11:04PM, roache wrote:

They should have increased it to 40 teams retaining the 8 groups but now of 5 teams instead of the present 4 with top 2 progressing and yes i know all the final games cannot be played at the same time as 5 into 4 doesn't go but it could be arranged whereby the lowest seeded team from that group completes there quota of 4 games first then the remaining 4 teams complete there last fixture simultaneously and they all have the advantage in doing so because they are higher seeded.The only complication will be rest times between games as some teams would get less or more than others within that group but again that can be arranged by seeding order.

seems a sound enough idea.

Report n88uk • March 31, 2017 11:33 PM BST

There will be that with 3 team groups anyway. It's going to be a clear and obvious advantage to play the 1st and 3rd match and have like 8 days between matches than the other 2 teams playing 2 matches in 4 days.

Report n88uk • March 31, 2017 11:41 PM BST

Mar 31, 2017 -- 7:55PM, scandanavian_haven wrote:

yeah, it's harder not to qualify in South America than it is to qualify

Depends who you are. True if you are like Brazil. But South America is still a very strong continent. The likes of Peru/Paraguay would still struggle to qualify with 6 teams currently and are far better than some of the added dross this will add to the tournament. The same will be true for many teams on the fringes in Europe though, as I assume a team like Ukraine would still struggle to qualify with 16 teams and again would be far better than some of these teams added.

Report mafeking • March 31, 2017 11:57 PM BST

going by the fifa rankings europe should have 26 teams in a 48 team world cup and some of those lower ranked european teams are not up to much so just think how bad the 10 worse teams taking their place will be