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Yes, to find out who are the best 5 teams from Africa, best 5 teams from Asia, best 13 teams from Europe etc etc. The finals themselves are there to see who are the best overall. I cannot see why people do not understand this. Global sport = teams from all over that globe. How shit would the...

Yes, agreed. I just do not agree with you that it is a problem having more teams from those continents. As a global sport, it's premier competition should represent the World, not simply who are the best 32 or 48 teams regardless of where they are from.

One World Cup in Europe is a bit soon to drawing conclusions. Last time out in South America, 4 out of 5 South American teams made the last 16; 3 out of 4 Central and North American teams also made the last 16. The dominance of set pieces at this World Cup has caught the smaller in stature...

Think what you want. The facts are that it will be 16 European teams (up from 13) under the new proposal so one third of the competition for 10% of the world's population. I like the fact that more non European teams will get in*. Football is the only truly global sport, and the WORLD Cup should...