2026 World Cup Discussion

Stephen230 said:
They haven’t even decided how they’re going to organise the groups yet.
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Looks like it'll be 16 groups of 3, hopefully not though, something like the euros with so many best 3rd place teams going through would be better.
 
I be happy if international football was cancelled. Hopefully someone will have the bottle to expose the corruption that will have been rife at the latest one and they close the whole thing down. The corruption in football will have to come to a head at some point.
 
Stephen230 said:
They haven’t even decided how they’re going to organise the groups yet.
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Yeah, I’d heard that was an issue, but you’d think with a split between 3 countries they’d at least have agreed on a division of the big 3 games before putting their bid in wouldn’t you? - I was assuming those 3 games would be shared between the 3 countries- I hope so anyway, and that it’s not, for example, all the big games in USA & a token gesture to the other two …
 
aguero93:20 said:
Looks like it'll be 16 groups of 3, hopefully not though, something like the euros with so many best 3rd place teams going through would be better.
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I think they’d more or less settled on that originally, until it was pointed out the potential for a West Germany, Austria type situation where the final group game ending in a draw might suit both teams.

The talk then seemed to be they were favouring 12x4 groups with 8 third placed teams making up the last 32. That would incidentally mean a 104 game tournament. Which is double the number of matches played in the last World Cup over there in ‘94.

Find out soon enough I suppose.
 
chesterbells said:
Yeah, I’d heard that was an issue, but you’d think with a split between 3 countries they’d at least have agreed on a division of the big 3 games before putting their bid in wouldn’t you? - I was assuming those 3 games would be shared between the 3 countries- I hope so anyway, and that it’s not, for example, all the big games in USA & a token gesture to the other two …
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Under the original plan of 16X3 groups that would involve a total of 80 games in the tournament, which was being split 60 USA, 10 Canada, 10 Mexico.

That’ll obviously change if they switch to 12X4 groups, meaning a total of 104 games, as discussed above.

Although it’s worth noting that all matches from the Quarter Finals onwards in the 80 game plan, were earmarked for USA, so I guess that’s unlikely to change.
 
Stephen230 said:
Under the original plan of 16X3 groups that would involve a total of 80 games in the tournament, which was being split 60 USA, 10 Canada, 10 Mexico.

That’ll obviously change if they switch to 12X4 groups, meaning a total of 104 games, as discussed above.

Although it’s worth noting that all matches from the Quarter Finals onwards in the 80 game plan, were earmarked for USA, so I guess that’s unlikely to change.
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Hmm, understood, thanks. That’s the answer I was looking for (but not hoping for). Disappointing that. Canada or Mexico not even warranting the mighty 3rd place match.
 
give it to gordon said:
I am looking forward to the outcry over the USA human rights.

Guantanamo Bay detention centre

Gun laws

Racism

Invading over countries
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None of that is actually relevant to a World Cup. Every country has some level of human rights issues. Pretending the US and Qatar are even remotely comparable is a joke. The US have an actual workforce, infrastructure, sporting culture, culture in general, and (comparable to Qatar) humane labour laws. None of which Qatar has. Qatar is also inhospitable during the traditional summer months in which it it normally played. Also, Qatar will be completely uninhabitable in less than 100 years so the idea of a lasting legacy in the Middle East is a myth.

People aren’t dying for the 2026 World Cup to happen.

No one is not welcome to be themselves. Being gay is not criminalised. They aren’t killing political dissidents.

Of course there are lots of major issues with the USA (state-murder/extraordinary rendition/13th Amendment/systematic racism/foreign intervention) but they don’t directly link to the World Cup like in Qatar - where 6500 died as a direct consequence of the World Cup happening. The Qatar World Cup was the single highest carbon emitting event in human history, outside of war. All while claiming it’s “carbon-neutral”.

Conflating the crimes of Qatar and the US is wilfully obtuse and classic whataboutism bollocks.
 
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Maybe controversial, but I am looking forward to the expanded format.

I am skeptical of the logistics. I'm all for having joint bids but Canada, the US, and Mexico are all huge with very little public transportation. There's lots of ground to cover between venues. It'll be interesting.

I am very much not looking forward to continuously hearing how the US is the root of all evil and wrongdoing in the world.
 
yankblue said:
Maybe controversial, but I am looking forward to the expanded format.

I am skeptical of the logistics. I'm all for having joint bids but Canada, the US, and Mexico are all huge with very little public transportation. There's lots of ground to cover between venues. It'll be interesting.

I am very much not looking forward to continuously hearing how the US is the root of all evil and wrongdoing in the world.
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I’m wondering if they will install pitch side air conditioning in the stadiums for the players like they did in Qatar

I’m not sure where the stadiums will be, but Mexico in the summer is no joke in terms of heat, as are states like Florida and California.

A lot of countries are going to struggle in that summer heat in those places otherwise
 
aguero93:20 said:
That was probably as much to do with it not being at the end of a long season tbf, temperatures were still pretty high, something like 24C and humid too.
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Weren't games played in semi-closed stadiums with controlled conditions?
 
Crooked_rain said:
I’m wondering if they will install pitch side air conditioning in the stadiums for the players like they did in Qatar

I’m not sure where the stadiums will be, but Mexico in the summer is no joke in terms of heat, as are states like Florida and California.

A lot of countries are going to struggle in that summer heat in those places otherwise
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Mexico City is at altitude; should be beautiful weather. It’s the rainy season in Guadalajara. But Monterrey can be toasty. Never know in SF or LA but SoFi in LA is near the ocean so not usually too bad and Levi’s in SF is near the Bay so both can get water breezes, or in LA, even the marine layer (though not in the afternoon). But in Miami and the other US cities save Seattle, heat and humidity could always be a problem. But MLS manages somehow and I’m sure water breaks will be part of things if need be. I know NRG in Houston is domed (seen City twice there) and maybe a few others are.
 
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