Yorkie Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Looks like it's coming home: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/22/uk-and-republic-of-ireland-in-line-to-host-euro-2028-after-no-one-else-bids Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 32 nations. Should've been kept at 16. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 19 minutes ago, neesy111 said: 32 nations. Should've been kept at 16. More games - more fun? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miercoles Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 20 minutes ago, neesy111 said: 32 nations. Should've been kept at 16. Best thing about the Euros was that there were less filler teams... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
number37 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 32 nations qualifying out of 55 is pointlessly daft. Might as well have a league where European nations compete against each other, perhaps broken into divisions based on previous performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 As unnecessary to expand the team numbers as it is to include 5 individual federation nations (or 2 actual nations) hosting it especially if you’re the only bidder. Hopefully SJP will get some games either way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 (edited) 24 teams just doesn't work and they were never going back to 16. Qualifiers are a bit ruined but I don't think the tournament is worse for it. Smaller nations did alright in 2020 and there were still decent countries missing like Norway, Serbia, Ireland, Greece, Slovenia, Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria etc. Edited March 23, 2022 by Pata Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 1 hour ago, GeordieDazzler said: They will fucking get it as well. 😂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 They should just do away with qualifiers and make it one big tournament! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 If they're going up to 32/55, surely need to cut some teams out of qualifying? Give a bye to the 16 who are in League A of the Nations League for example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Aye absolutely need to do something, would take a failure of unimaginable proportions for one of the bigger nations to miss out. Nee point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Anderson said: If they're going up to 32/55, surely need to cut some teams out of qualifying? Give a bye to the 16 who are in League A of the Nations League for example. Rory Smith's idea was to have those who get to the last 16 of 2024 automatically qualify for the next tournie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Surprised by this after the whole Euros final trouble last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miercoles Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 3 hours ago, HTT II said: They should just do away with qualifiers and make it one big tournament! That's actually a way cooler idea, I know you're probably joking but... A knockout tournament of all 55 countries would be absolutely insane. Just seed some byes based on ranking and fucking get into it with a 64-team bracket. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 7 hours ago, Yorkie said: Looks like it's coming home: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/22/uk-and-republic-of-ireland-in-line-to-host-euro-2028-after-no-one-else-bids Turkey bidding as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Brave Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Even Scotland will qualify Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Boris says Ukraine should host Euro 2028 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandamninator Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 On 24/03/2022 at 06:36, Miggys First Goal said: Surprised by this after the whole Euros final trouble last year. You wouldn't be able to host the tournament anywhere on the continent if you held crowd troubles against bidders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseman Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 On 24/03/2022 at 05:49, Miercoles said: That's actually a way cooler idea, I know you're probably joking but... A knockout tournament of all 55 countries would be absolutely insane. Just seed some byes based on ranking and fucking get into it with a 64-team bracket. Give last tournaments top 8 plus host nation auto wins for round 1 and could be good fun to watch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 There's really good depth in European football and 24 teams doesn't really work so I think 32 teams in it is fine. Take the point that maybe 8 teams should qualify automatically based on Nations League but then those teams would probably be at a disadvantage in terms of cohesiveness if they weren't playing games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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