They were.
Great Depression, recessions, civil wars, post-war bans and other political factors were tearing both mentioned countries apart - Germany wasn't a part of anything in the 20s (Olympics, etc.) and had to decline the WC due to costs and...
You seem to be ignoring all the points I made about the tournament being a bago’shyte + you asked me to “think through my argument”, so I did, and you wilfully ignored my conclusions;
Exhausted players at the end of a long season
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Dave, all clubs qualify for the CL by league position or winning the trophy the year before. Even making allowances for your usual contrariness, you are talking out of your Aris here. Something that I think you know.
And the winners of the club World Cup only qualified for the Conference league in the season just gone. Same way as the credibility of the champions league is less than the old European Cup as many Champions league winners were not even champions
hang on… Chelsea win a glorified summer tournament funded by FIFA’s latest money-printing scheme, and suddenly we’re meant to lap up Dave’s new footy hierarchy?
This isn’t bias — it’s just reality. PSG’s payroll is €658 million a year. Chelsea...
A supposedly top world competition entertainment (according to the showrunner) has only got (not quite) double the pages here, after a month, of the discussion involving Everton signing a back up goalkeeper over the last week or two.
Make of...
Bit of a weird take. We’re the current champions and got to the last World Cup final losing narrowly to a great Spain team. Battered Netherlands in the last game and completely in control here