3 north/central American teams to join USA, Canada and Mexico? FFS.

Like if Australia and New Zealand were host but they still needed to find an extra Australasia team to be in the world cup.

Dunno, Costa Rica have shown up well in previous editions. Panama are ever improving, and the Reggae Boyz under Steve McClaren light up any event. Honduras and El Salvador are passable teams.

Would you like the group stage to be replaced by a mega league playing random teams like the CL?

Yeah, I think that would be good.

You think, instead of England playing Panama, Cape Verde and New Zealand in a group they could play Argentina, France in first round. As well as Panama, Cape Verde and New Zealand.

Or how about everyone plays everyone but no teams go out? Then we'd get even more big matches between the top nations?

The watering down of the top tournaments now mean that the majority of matches, there is far less riding on them.

Group stages now are essentially to determine who finishes bottom and goes out.

Moving towards the two thirds progressing model instead of 50% makes individual matches less meaningful.

You will come back saying that more matches have something riding on them, but why not just do away with an actual world cup winner then and just give everyone a Dairy Milk bar for playing a match, then every match has something riding on it. Cos you get a dairy milk in every match not just one team at the end getting a trophy.

Could also change the knock out stage to the two thirds model. Winner of the first knock out stage goes through but the loser goes into play offs to play other losing first round knock out teams so from the last 16, 12 go through to the last 8. Then out of the 12 last 8 teams, 8 go through to the last 4. The final is a 4 team league and the top 3 from that group win the world cup.

And Scotland would still go out in the group stage if they qualified.

I'd actually change individual matches as well so that the winner only gets two points and the loser gets one. It would mean that losing a match wouldn't be as bad so teams would be more attacking.

Although a move towards one point each regardless of the result would result in more open games still and would mean that all group matches have something riding on them. Also if we did away with goals to score in, then games would be closer

Anything we can do to take importance away from individual matches, can only be a good thing.

The day that Scotland qualify for the knock out stage is the day you can celebrate the success of your campaign to dumb down top level football competitions.

It's the shіttest time of year to play international football.

There you go

Does the football season never end? Another month of boring International football. I can think of a thousand things I would rather be doing than watching Summer football, especially the International rubbish.

I shall return to football in August when the real champions of Europe will be decided when Tottenham play PSG on the 13th August.

So the real champions of England will be decided in the community shield? 😂😂😂