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FullLeatherJacket posted:also bring back: pundits going on about daylight between the players when getting incensed about the offside rule
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FullLeatherJacket posted:also bring back: i can only take this to mean big ron "ron beton" vlaar
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Bring back Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the USSR and the Kalmar Union. 55 UEFA members is way too many.
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Jun 23, 2021 14:32
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So if Germany wins & Portugal/France draw, it's England France in ro16? hahahahaha
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sebzilla posted:Bring back Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the USSR and the Kalmar Union. 55 UEFA members is way too many. Also the UK only gets one team instead of like 5
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Bape Culture posted:If Hungary and france won then we would play Hungary right? i think so yeah
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Also pisses me off that the aztec sacrificial ballgame tournament in Qatar will be the last beautiful 32 team worlds. Then it will be even worse than this 24 team horror system. This opinion has probably been presented before by a number of persons in these forums. After this tournament is over I'll probably be here next in 2022, unless I'm dead by then which is unlikely but probably more likely than for almost all of you.
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u brexit ukip it posted:Also the UK only gets one team instead of like 5 let's not tear up the foundation of world football
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Gigi Galli posted:Please let the fully Hamsicks defeat the Spanish today 
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Porrima posted:Also pisses me off that the aztec sacrificial ballgame tournament in Qatar will be the last beautiful 32 team worlds. it will also be the last one not in canada also lol that concacaf now get 6 spots plus 2 playoff spots, and new zealand automatically qualify for every world cup for the rest of time i forgot about how bullshit all of this was
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3 team groups is dumb as heck, the 48 team tournament is genuinely awful. Knock outs start with 32 teams and if I do watch I reckon that'll be when I start.
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Jun 23, 2021 15:41
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Why would they not just do 12 groups of 4? Too many games or what?
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They should do more subnational teams. I demand separate Catalan and Basque teams, Flemish, Walloons, Moravians, Bavarians, Laplanders.
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Jun 23, 2021 15:57
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211 team World Cup, no qualifying, no seeding, no groups, straight knockout all the way through baby
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skasion posted:Why would they not just do 12 groups of 4? Too many games or what? you could, but you'd end up with the same poo poo as in this one, where top two plus best eight go through at least with three-team groups you're going to get an extra round of knockout football with the same number of games for each team
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goatface posted:They should do more subnational teams. I demand separate Catalan and Basque teams, Flemish, Walloons, Moravians, Bavarians, Laplanders.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:Ukraine have -1 and Finland have -2, Portugal are currently sat on +1 and have scored more than Ukraine for some reason I thought Ukraine and Portugal were both at 0, nevermind then.
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sebzilla posted:211 team World Cup, no qualifying, no seeding, no groups, straight knockout all the way through baby Make it happen. Let’s see if Neymar can do it on a cold night in Bhutan
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sebzilla posted:211 team World Cup, no qualifying, no seeding, no groups, straight knockout all the way through baby Unironically this Let’s see Wallis and Futuna get stomped by Angola who get stomped by Bolivia
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Who gets a bye in the round of 256?
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skasion posted:Why would they not just do 12 groups of 4? Too many games or what? The groups of 3 means more games overall (and therefore more advertising revenue) but keeps the number of games played the same for teams that go far, i.e., the finalists still play seven games it's just two groups and five knockouts instead of three groups and four knockouts, so theoretically it doesn't add any additional fatigue for the later games. It also means for the 32-team knockout you don't have to work out the weird permutations of this euros and the third-place qualifiers, you just have the standard top two going through.
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goatface posted:Who gets a bye in the round of 256? No seeding, so just draw lots. If Germany and Brazil play each other in the first round while Liechtenstein get a bye into their second-round tie against Vanuatu, so be it.
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goatface posted:Who gets a bye in the round of 256? peter shilton picks 45 teams out of a hat, remaining 166 contest the first knockout round unless peter shilton is dead, which I don't think he is but I can't be arsed to google
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Porrima posted:Also pisses me off that the aztec sacrificial ballgame tournament in Qatar will be the last beautiful 32 team worlds. best third place team is a loving abomination. i hate this poo poo. who's looking back at the pre 98 world cups and jacking off over best third places teams and second group stage and reverse round robin and whatever the hell
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we could have whatever that loving concacaf thing was where you got extra points for scoring an own goal and one team ended up defending both nets a terrible confederation for terrible people
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Borsche69 posted:best third place team is a loving abomination. i hate this poo poo. who's looking back at the pre 98 world cups and jacking off over best third places teams and second group stage and reverse round robin and whatever the hell Could be worse, in 1950 they didn’t even have a final. Win your group to qualify for…another group Also one of the groups had two teams
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Three team groups is dumb to the point of making me angry about it. What the gently caress.
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They don't want dead rubbers. Nobody wants to advertise in a meaningless game.
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The problem with 3 team groups conceptually is obviously 2 teams will play each other after the other team has already completed both games, potentially leading to the Austria-Germany situation in the 1982 world cup again. The most obvious situation being if Team C draws with Teams A/B then a final game score draw between A and B could send both through.
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Flayer posted:The problem with 3 team groups conceptually is obviously 2 teams will play each other after the other team has already completed both games, potentially leading to the Austria-Germany situation in the 1982 world cup again. The most obvious situation being if Team C draws with Teams A/B then a final game score draw between A and B could send both through. Yeah this is dumb and bad. It also breaks my brain to think about a "group stage" where each group only plays three games in total. That isn't enough games to have a real group! It's basically a knockout stage already, you might as well just go straight to knockouts!
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despite this low-energy performance, slovakia win the anthem battle by default because the spanish have nothing to sing along to
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Let's go 'vaks
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Is Slovakia a real country? Never met a "Slovakian" before.
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We all love the international Slovakian men’s football team
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Come on you Sloves!Tortilla Maker posted:Is Slovakia a real country? Read the team thread mate, Slovaks are real and strong and my friends.
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