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But the teams losing 9-0 wouldn't be the ones getting the out from pre-qualification would they? It'd be teams like Scotland and Wales, Poland and Slovakia who are likely to get through (assuming we have 8 spots from pre-qualification that is). While their performance probably wouldn't be...

Is it reasonable to make the worst teams who, generally, have much more limited resources play more games? Working it out you would force 8 teams to play 2-6 games extra games to qualify (depending on two legs vs one leg in pre-qualification etc...). On the one hand they'd probably get some more...

Oh I'm not vindicating it, I very much enjoy teams like San Marino being in qualification, and I think it's disgraceful the way that ITV have poked fun at teams like San Marino in the past. Pre-qualification in competitions like the FA Cup makes sense to some extent due to sheer volume of teams...

So you'd have to qualify to qualify?