I'm struggling to get behind the whole concept of this bloated World Cup.
I touched on this in the cricket thread but this whole quantity over quality is just diluting the product and that filters down to the qualification stage too.
You've ended up with near enough 1 in 4 nations that are affiliated to FIFA qualifying for this World Cup, I don't see how that's right without quality being sacrificed.
And as I say that just filters down to qualification as the qualification groups are so weak.
There used to be real jeopardy in the qualification stages to the extent that they in themselves were compulsive viewing. Now for the stronger nations (by and large*) there is no jeopardy, it's just a breeze so much so that I can't be bothered to even watch England going through qualification as it's meaningless.
* Of course there will be the occasional exceptions but that just proves the rule...
I touched on this in the cricket thread but this whole quantity over quality is just diluting the product and that filters down to the qualification stage too.
You've ended up with near enough 1 in 4 nations that are affiliated to FIFA qualifying for this World Cup, I don't see how that's right without quality being sacrificed.
And as I say that just filters down to qualification as the qualification groups are so weak.
There used to be real jeopardy in the qualification stages to the extent that they in themselves were compulsive viewing. Now for the stronger nations (by and large*) there is no jeopardy, it's just a breeze so much so that I can't be bothered to even watch England going through qualification as it's meaningless.
* Of course there will be the occasional exceptions but that just proves the rule...
