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If we're now stuck with the newly expanded 24 team Euro Finals now instead of 16 (which is another complete and utter nonsense, but thats another argument), then you can have 11 groups of 4. Top 2 go through, plus one best 3rd place to give you 23 qualifiers, plus the hosts. Everyone just plays...

Turkey and Greece, although poor in footballing terms, always had quite major leagues with professional players and fanatical followings, they were and are proper footballing nations. But I just don't see why semi-pro outfits from tiny nations / principalities should automatically be pitched...

None of them have major leagues, I'm sure they could squeeze in a two-legged pre-qualifer playoff some time in the summer, before the qualifiers start up in September.

If the Euro qualifying groups were made up of 4 teams instead of 6, then we wouldn't need so many cuffing International breaks and double-header fixtures all the time to plough through this turgid qualifying process. All the groups are chock-full of pointless, hopeless flotsum like San Marino...