Governing bodies are supposed to be protectors of all that is wonderful about a sport but apparently not FIFA. No FIFA are a money grabbing gold digger slowly but surely poisoning football until it dies! Their latest target to destroy is the World Cup!
Imagine wanting to damage the World Cup in any way. That glorious month every four years that keeps us going through the dark times. One four week period of pure unadulterated footy, the first 10 days feature three matches a day, who doesn't love that.
FIFA though can't leave well alone. Today the organisation's president Gianni Infantino, the man who is supposed to steady the ship after Sepp Blatter and all his cronies were arrested, has thrown his weight behind an extended World Cup.
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An extended tournament should be everything we want in life but the idea of a 48 team tournament with 16 groups of three times is just ridiculous. Get ready for a meaningless group game between Bolivia and Scotland.
As football writer Jonathan Wilson pointed out that format would mean the same amount of games as the current 32 team format as long as only one team went through. But that would hugely decrease the chance of decent groups.
If two teams went through to a last 32 then it would mean a mammoth 80 matches in the tournament. That would get far too much even for the biggest of football fans, far too many average teams playing each other.
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Lord knows where the World Cup would take place, you'd need around eight grounds just for the group stages. I suspect we'd get a tournament like the 2020 Euros, spread throughout an entire continent.
The whole thing doesn't bare thinking about. Please don't do this FIFA, you're making us miss Blatter!
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