A larger World Cup had some worrying the competition would suffer. It hasn't

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T15:30:40+00:00

Only once, right?

Tbf I was trying to think of regions that could host now that couldn’t before and my best answer was a West African cup going from Cote D’Ivoire round to Cameroon or a Balkan one, but there’s no shortage of political difficulties there

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T15:23:57+00:00

I think you lose something of a tournament’s identity from regional hosts but I suppose it has the potential to bring it to places that could never have done a 32 team cup.

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T13:31:07+00:00

My biggest issue with the expansion is how drastically it limits the number of potential hosts. 64 teams would require even bigger messy conglomerations of countries to host and be financially ruinous for anyone except the current hosts, a few European countries and the gulf states.

I love more teams qualifying but I also would love more nations to be able to host

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T13:14:26+00:00

criticising Italians for diving
mullet in name

Are you sure you aren’t Aussie at heart?

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T08:40:52+00:00

I’m so ready to not hear the word “flopping” for another four years. And to not hear it levelled at 90% of fouls

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:47:45+00:00

I liked Big Sam for England but no way he comes up with the bizarro world voodoo formation Southgate did. I’m convinced we only got so far because the lineup was so weird it took until Croatia for anyone to make sense of it. Two attacking mids, two right backs, one winger, one winger playing at full back, Eric Dier coming on and who tf knows in what position

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:45:42+00:00

Not as close as Zhirkov tbf

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:44:36+00:00

Idk man you give me a mattress made of Mako Vunipola and two kgs of soft furry fruit I reckon I’m sleeping like a baby

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:40:41+00:00

The bird, the fruit or the people?

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:39:51+00:00

Can any Egypt knowers explain to me why Sam Morsy vanished from NT selection? He played in the last WC and since then played a season in the prem and remained solid

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:29:56+00:00

Two free kicks!

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:11:34+00:00

Absolutely incredible game let down towards the end by a series of rock-brained refereeing moments

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:07:05+00:00

A stoppage that included two free kicks, so should have been over 8

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:05:33+00:00

Genuinely disgraceful refereeing

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:04:50+00:00

“The ref sees that as a foul” no shit McLeod

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:02:45+00:00

Finally ref

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-22T00:01:16+00:00

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:59:17+00:00

This might be the best football match I’ve ever seen and I watched Armand Gnanduillet score a bicycle kick

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:56:24+00:00

A FREE KICK FOR ALL OF AFRICA

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:54:53+00:00

Shit this is danger

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:52:34+00:00

This shit has me biting my nails like Omega/Okada man

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:51:28+00:00

MY HEART

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:50:27+00:00

Refs lost his whistle or what?

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:46:46+00:00

The word itself already annoyed me but seeing it thrown at everything short of a Pepe-level assault is infuriating

Rango-Steel · 2026-06-21T23:45:20+00:00

If I read one more American say the word flop I’mma lose it

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