maguskwt » Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:14 am wrote:FIFA expected to approve expanded World Cup format with 16 groups of 3.
I am getting sick and tired of these moves to expand the tournaments. Euro 2016 was the most boring tournament ever and I surprised myself for not watching most of the matches. It was just water-ed down stuff.
What do you think?
Pretty much the same as you mate, every WC you might get one or two decent teams missing out on qualification but generally there's a reason why teams fail to qualify and that's because they are cr@p.
The standard of the last few WC's hasn't been that high in the first place so to just water it down even further with another tranche of average teams who will set up to defend for 90 minutes and bore everyone sh[it]less is just unbelievable.
Personally I think FIFA have been under pressure from corporate sponsors for this to happen, in any country that qualifies sales of booze, flags, silly hats you name it go through the roof when the WC is on so the more countries that go on a WC fuelled spending spree the better as far as corporations are concerned.