To be hosted by USA, Canada and Mexico.
This World Cup will also have 48 teams. More pub teams and weird group stages where you don’t have to even win games to progress.
Good work, FIFA.
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To be hosted by USA, Canada and Mexico.
This World Cup will also have 48 teams. More pub teams and weird group stages where you don’t have to even win games to progress.
Good work, FIFA.
Wow. Sounds crappy. I wonder how they're going to get past the wall?
Oh also, why have the US hosted this twice now despite not collectively giving a rat's ass about "soccer", and England only once when, as crap as we are, we actually care about it and have the BLitW ™
48 teams?
Fuck knows what we do for the sweepstakes then.
I think it’s because they want to grow the game in parts of the world where football isn’t the be all and end all. Plus it’s probably all crooked as fuck anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Didn't they do that at Euro '16? I'm sure that's why there were some boring matches. Not that I think England deserved much, but they drew with a team that they probably would have beaten if said team had had to win to progress. If teams can play for a draw to get out of the group stage it's meaningless and boring, it makes it dull.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
24 teams eachQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
It'll just be you, me and Cripps by then so 16 teams each I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Dammit! <_<Quote:
Originally Posted by GP
Yeah, they tried that in '94. Didn't really work. You can't force a sport on a population who mostly don't care about it. These things are ingrained culturally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
What worries me is this might revive all the c**p they talked about last time it was in the USA - like having quarters instead of halves, kick-ins instead of throw-ins - oh well i guess it gives the old blazers at FIFA something to do inbetween getting drunk and harrassing hotel maids etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Football is far more popular in the US that it was in the 90s.
It's still miles behind their own rubbish sports, but it's growing fast.
See, these guys get it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPwLncJDDss
It will probably never grow enough to rival the likes of NFL, NBA etc but there’s still a fairly big interest in it that should be exploited. You’ll be surprised at how knowledgable some American fans are. Whenever I’ve been over there I’ve always had interesting conversations with people who love the game and have plenty of in depth things to say about it.
well i must admit think baseball is a great game, and great fun to go and watch, but American shiteball is the biggest pile of turd everQuote:
Originally Posted by GP
You enjoy Baseball?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I went to see the Yankees last year and had to leave after an hour and a half, I literally had no fucking clue what was going on and there were so many commercials between plays. The stop-start nature of a lot of American sports makes them horrible to follow for the uninitiated.
The pauses works ok in baseball but it's certainly one od the many aspects of american cackball that makes me hate it so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
One of my favourite Simpsons jokes is from the episode where he gives up drink and goes to a game for the first time sober:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
"I never realised how boring this game was before" :lol:
American sport is too stop start but quite like hockey and basketball. Seen both at MSG, didn't entirely understand what was going on and it doesn't have the tribal nature of "soccer". Quite good fun though.