@florianederer An alternative would be a barbarians side for players from countries who qualified but didn’t get picked for their national squad. Imagine knocking your own country kit of the World Cup
@florianederer Creates slightly perverse incentives for world class players from tin pot nations. Do your best to try and qualify with your country knowing you’ll be out in the groups if you do anyway, or sack it off, get picked for best of rest team with a shot of winning it?
@florianederer Fairly sure I woke up at 7am the morning after my finals finished with the mother of all hangovers to watch England Nigeria in World Cup 2002. Nil nil.