They do 16 groups of three, then one team is going to have to wait days for their first game in the competition, with the other two teams facing each other and then needing at least 3 days break.
Why don't they just have 48 groups of 1, then everybody gets to qualify.
Best plan yet.
And the two teams that get knocked out will play each other in the losers semi-final with the winners automatically getting to the final and the 94 who qualified playing for one place. It's a sure fire winner
Switzerland, Poland and Croatia are world class? I think this emphasises the point but also there would have to be a move even spread of teams throughout the world rather than Europe biased so some of these may drop to seed 2 by that measure alone.
England would still lose in the first round.
You can't not have any African teams. Also the Netherlands are stronger than Poland or Portugal.
No way are we on the same level as Italy or Spain. And Portugal are more on a level with Switzerland, Russia, Czech Republic and Sweden. Portugal are a one-man team. Netherlands are far better than Portugal or Croatia or even us.
