All the other confederations hate UEFA for their grip on World Cup places and this is just a way of getting more African and Asian teams into the World Cup. Good idea, yes, but this is not the way to fix it.
At 48 teams where do we go next? In 20 years they'll want to expand it again. It's almost not worth having qualifiers and just having a closed shop tournament for national FAs who kiss the most arse. That's what they've always wanted to do with the Champions League anyway and it wouldn't surprise me if the World Cup went the same way.
When the Euros expanded last year it was probably the worst international tournament I'd ever seen. The problem was there were too many teams who set themselves up just to basically defend for 90 minutes which resulted in some very poor games.
The two surprise teams at that tournament, Wales (semis) and Iceland (quarters), were two teams widely predicted to do terribly at that tournament. Some of the worst performing teams at international tournaments over the last 20 years have been big boys who aren't as good as they think they are.
Naming no Englands.
Arguably Portugal was the most disliked team at Euro 16 and they went on to win the bloody thing.
On top of this stupid money grab idea, Infantilo is thinking about a penalty shootout after a draw in the groupstages.
I hate penalty shootouts. That MLS clip with the one-on-one shootout, it gets ridiculed by English football fans purely because it's "American" or something but I think it's a brilliant and fairer scenario. If,
if, you were to have a shootout I'd rather have that than penalties.
But not to settle draws.
