World Cup 2022

[Percussion]

Was rooting for Messi throughout as I'm a sucker for a good sports fairytale, and in this case the chance to, live, in my lifetime, witness genuine once in a generation greatness. And so we did.

The storybook part of this is almost too much. The unrivaled club success for so very long opposite the desperation of the national team struggles. And almost the instant his club situation uproots leaving his career at large looking unfathomably rocky his national team fortunes answer equally and oppositely back. A loud and emphatic Copa America championship, a Cup of Champions trophy (is what it is but nonetheless a trophy amongst an otherwise barren international cupboard), and in the most dramatic and captivating way one could draw up the trophy of all trophies. All of a sudden a whirlwind of the kind of success he'd pined for well over a decade. Genuinely, almost comically, sports poetic.

Congrats to Argentina on the whole, the squad man for man, Scaloni, and of course the goat.. unique and clearly flawed but entertaining tourney, unbelievable final, thrilling finish, and the bow of all bows on top with the legend absolutely completed.

That was fun.

[MTR]

So 2030 in 6 countries. Interesting.

2034 in Saudi Arabia. So another winter cup pissing off all the european leagues.

[Dreyski]

A world cup in Saudi Arabia - the timing will be the least of the problems

[Peter Griffin]

No need to lose your head mate.

[MTR]

Netflix get rights to Women's World Cup in 2027 and 2031

[MTR]

FIFA to consider making 2030 Cup 64 teams for a one off to celebrate hundred years.

That would make for an interesting tournament for sure.

[Percussion]

I don't see the interesting part about it. I mean, almost half the footballing world would be allowed in so qualifying would be near pointless. Unless you want to see who edges it out between Cape Verde and Sierra Leone.

And the first two weeks of the actual tournament would consist of matches between the likes of Ireland vs Tajikistan. Must fuckin see there, huh?

[MTR]

I don't disagree that there would be a lot of pointless matches. More interesting to see like how they would do the qualification and then the set up for it. And to see if some low ranked team that has never been there before pulls of some kind of upset.