When you have 32/36 teams in the WC finals, the all time scoring record will be broken easily because there are too many weak teams included
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How would you do that?
I guess we just say to San Marino and Malta ālook youāre not going to quality anyway, so shall we just call the game off and go to the pub instead?ā 
Itās either keep it the same and have top players getting injured in meaningless matches, that hardly anyone is interested in, or change the structure of the qualifiers.
Southgate has needlessly used both Saka and Rice against minnows and played them almost the whole game against Macedonia.
Heās a selfish manager who couldnāt care less about over using PL players, whose wages and coaching is all done by their clubs.
So just stop tiny islands and countries, with a population barely the size of a PL game, competing with the bigger countries, or have a mini break where the group games can be played together, rather than having continual breaks during the season.
Who seriously prefers watching boring international games like England playing Malta or Macedonia, in a stadium with empty seats, on channel 4 listening to Dion Dublin talking nonsense, rather than the PL?
This seems like an England problem to me
Well you cant just bar these places from participating. They exist, they are members of UEFA and FIFA and they have the same right as anyone else to try and qualify.
Do you really think it would be fair if Iceland had been effectively banned from World Cup qualifying because they were small and shit for so long? You have people in that country who dedicate their lives to encouraging and developing players the same as people in the bigger countries do. Just taking part in a World Cup will probably have been a once in a lifetime experience for them. Football admin is bad enough without introducing something like that which would strip any possibility of it ever happening again away.
As for a longer break with more gamesā¦i doubt that stops the complaining but Iām not opposed to that.
All countries should have the chance to qualify.
It is just a managerās fault to over-use a player.
In Southgateās case, his job is to qualify and win.
Resting players is not his concern.
However, you can tell he is just a shit manager.
He canāt even trust and use players outside his regular eleven to play against mush inferior teams.
His number 12-23 players are not bad onesā¦ they are still the best crop of players around the world.
People can laugh at Nagelsmann on putting Havertz as LB, but this is how the sport moving forward and getting new (even stupid) ideas.
Southgate, is so afraid to lose.
He needs this job badly I must say.
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They can participate but just not against the bigger countries until they have earned the right to compete with them just like the early rounds of FA Cup or any European competition.
Football is a massive commercial business and surely if world class players are having to play against farmers league players there is something wrong, especially when they play in front of empty seats and low viewing figures.
Yeah. Heās surely aware this is the biggest job heāll ever have.
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Just snobbery.
Did you watch the game yesterday despite thinking it shouldnāt be happening? If so youāre part of the problem you seem to have. 
Minnows who we failed to beat, despite using the players that you think we didnāt need to use
I watch the conflict in Israel but it doesnāt mean it shouldnāt be happening.
Iāll also watch the early rounds of the FA Cup with teams from the conference league but that doesnāt mean the qualifying games should include PL clubs.
Thereās no snobbery involved.
Itās just common sense not to have so many international breaks during the season, where almost no one is that interested in watching meaningless qualifiers and even worse international friendlies, especially when clubs lose their best players through injuries.
We didnāt need to beat them, all we had to do was turn up and still top the league, and thatās the point.
Saka didnāt need to play almost the whole game, and if heād been injured, it would have a significant effect on our team.
Everyone will have the same view about their players though. Southgate canāt please all the clubs. He is well within his right to select whoever he wants from the available players.
Arsenal should fake an injury like City did with Haaland if itās that much of a problem.
Why should clubs, who pay massive wages and coach the players, have to take the hit if they lose them because of an injury in an unnecessary game?
What if a club like West Ham lose a few players playing international friendlies and get relegated?
Or Saka and Rice get injured playing against Lichtenstein and we lose out on the title?
Who seriously looks forward to international friendlies rather than PL football?
Too many vested interests then.
Palace and Lyon are linked wtf?
Presumed city, chelsea and Newcastle would vote against. Who else make up the 7 other than palace?
Football failing at gatekeeping again!
majority rule no? 13 vs 7ā¦ thatās more than half and almost 2x as much as those who rejected it.
PL rule changes require 2/3 majority or 14.