I hated it for so long but seeing some results today I'm open to it if it gives countries like Jordan, Bahrain, Bolivia Greece a chance to play in the world cup maybe it can be good? 

Anyone else open to it now? 

NO.  World Cup is the pinnacle of national team sport not a state primary school sports carnival...

ONLY the top countries in the world deserve to be there..

Greece first qualified when there where only 24 nations competing, Australia when it was only 16!!!! 

NO 

will be a way worse tournament that just generates more money

Where that extra money goes is the only 'plus side' of the debate

Should be capped at 24 teams.
Too much dross in it now.

Fair enough 

Did you just "kill" your own thread?? Sheesh mate i know you start thousands of random ones but try and keep one going every now and then :)

I thought it was you that usually changes the subject 😄

Constantly :) But I do keep your random threads alive though...  Where's the love? hahahahahaha

You say hahaha but I doubt you're laughing 😉

🤣🤣🤣

Well not out loud obviously that would be nuts... hahahahahahahah

Maybe you should start another thread bout the new world cup format, I dont think there are too many?

How about:

"official expanded world cup thread appreciation - no criticism will be acceptable to original poster thanks"

But I don't mind criticism 

32 was right. Qualifiers seem to be more and more tight and tense these days across confederations. Not a substitute for the 'Finals' but definitely meaningful football. FIFA want the tournament proper to be bigger but I always enjoyed the idea of intercontinental qualifying at some point of the process. The fact that England generally get two opponents starting with 'S' gets a bit boring.

Suggestions for a B world cup have been made but I'm just not sure fans from 3rd tier nations would go for it. It's just diluting things even more.