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On 11/11/2022 at 17:29, Disco said:


Their Dad (surprisingly not approaching 50 when this photo was taken) is the most Scottish looking man is the world.

 

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That's Alex McLeish surely. :lol:

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1 hour ago, Ben said:

 

Loads of people tweeting how bad this is, I thinks it's a cracking idea 

It’s a shite one for me, the WC was bloated enough with 32 teams, 48 + 8 games is a piss take.  Money has driven it like this - just like the expansion of the Euros

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35 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

Don't like the idea of teams finishing 3rd in their group and still going through 

 

I'd sooner have 64 countries and top 2 going through. 

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The teams who play last in the groups will know what will be required for 3rd place to get through so there could well be some dodgy matches playing out for a bore draw. This was experienced in the 1994 world cup before it changed to 32 teams.

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15 hours ago, CPL said:

The teams who play last in the groups will know what will be required for 3rd place to get through so there could well be some dodgy matches playing out for a bore draw. This was experienced in the 1994 world cup before it changed to 32 teams.

 

Yeah, and it encourages scared and boring football. Finland won their first game in 2020 Euros and the coach admitted that they didn't want to be too aggressive against Russia in the second game as draw would have been fantastic and even a small loss alright. Then he was complaining after the last game how the results in other groups hadn't been good for us when we got knocked out.

 

If teams are ready to defend a 1-0 loss in the second group game to protect their goal difference, football will be boring as fuck. IP's way of having 48 teams would be so much better and every game would be meaningful to the end as that bye is so valuable.

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