Should be 16 teams. 4 groups of 4 teams.
Top 2 from each group progress.
Nations like Canada should be at this WC, since they are hosting it in 8 years.
Well the should have qualified then. You don’t get FIFA making it a stipulation that teams qualify prior to hosting. For instance South Africa hosted in 2010 but weren’t there in 2006.
I think it’s time we go to 16 teams but is nobody worried that the group stages are going to be pretty shit? If we seed England, Australia, NZ and presumably Tonga in to different groups then there’s the potential for none of them to meet until the semis and we’re not blessed with enough quality to make the preceding rounds that interesting.
For credibility the groups would need to be done by random so we might not get interesting games like Tonga v Samoa, Australia vs Lebanon, England v France.
