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Euros To Be Expanded
Topic Started: Sep 25 2008, 08:59 PM (99 Views)
Monty
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Uefa are set to rubber-stamp an expansion of the European Championship finals from 16 to 24 teams this week, in a move that will limit the number of countries able to host the tournament.

The decision, to be taken by Uefa's executive committee at their meeting in Bordeaux tomorrow and Friday, follows a proposal by the FAI and the Scottish FA last year.

It will take effect from the 2016 finals and has drawn virtually unanimous support from the 53 member countries, but Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith admits it will be a double-edged sword.

Scotland would not have the required facilities to stage an expanded championship.

"I think the expansion will be better for the game — more teams will have the chance of qualifying and the excitement of the groups will go on for longer," Smith said today.

"It is disappointing in that it means we will not be able to stage the tournament in the future, and we recognise that will be the case.

"It was a trade-off between trying to stage it or open up the qualification process and we have decided to look at something that helps everybody."

Smith said the proposal had not been an attempt merely to make it easier for Scotland to qualify for a major finals.

He added: "It will make it easier but it will make it easier for other countries such as England who failed to qualify for Euro 2008. We didn't do it specifically for that purpose, however."


Would be good for Ireland, England and the others as they have a better chance of qualifying. But the quality will be worse I think, this years torunament was excellent, it'll be quite worse when this happens. A bad thig really...
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They say 2018 could be heavily effected as Ukraine Poland might not be able to accomodate that many teams. :S
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Sep 25 2008, 08:59 PM
They say 2018 could be heavily effected as Ukraine Poland might not be able to accomodate that many teams. :S

Wont effect them, they have it in 2012.
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Shite idea. Where's the fun in all of the big teams qualifying? It could also mean more whipping boys in the group stages.
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Sure more or less all of them qualify anyway. The teams that qualify fought very very hard to do so for the last one and made it a great tournament because they were all good teams. The quality will get worse as there'll be some poxy teams in there. If this was in the last one then Stan would have gotten us there ffs.
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Sep 25 2008, 09:28 PM
Sure more or less all of them qualify anyway. The teams that qualify fought very very hard to do so for the last one and made it a great tournament because they were all good teams. The quality will get worse as there'll be some poxy teams in there. If this was in the last one then Stan would have gotten us there ffs.

I see what you mean by poxy teams. :fishing:

They normally all qualify but it was good England missing out.
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England are one of them poxy teams too :moon:
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