How to improve the world cup

[HuddersfieldToffee]

More even distribution of teams, less from Europe (so we don't have to endure Greece) and more from the Americas, Asia and Africa.

 

[The Esk]

On a serious note, pricing tickets for bona fide locals (with the necessary proofs to gain entry) so that all stadia are full for every game.

Football mad country like Brazil with games being played to below capacity crowds - does not make sense.

 

[Baines' left foot]

On a serious note, pricing tickets for bona fide locals (with the necessary proofs to gain entry) so that all stadia are full for every game.

Football mad country like Brazil with games being played to below capacity crowds - does not make sense.

Agreed. Surely lowering the ticket prices for locals would soften the blow of the massive public spending slightly?

 

[Deloodid]

i think 3rd place team should have to fly home via Ryanair, and 4th placed team has to get the next cargo tanker home.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I think random traps on the pitch like in Robot Wars would liven things up.

I agree. What the world cup really needs is Sir Killalot

 

[Baines' left foot]

At a random time in any given match another ball should be released in to play.

Carnage.

 

[Bungle]

Employ Aki as the only Physio for the whole tournament, would solve all this rolling around and play acting, nobody is gonna want him running over with his magic spray and a sponge.

 

[tommye]

naked cheerleaders clad only in body paint of competing teams.

like these tasty morsels....

 

[Moomin]

Remember Sim City, when you got bored you could unleash a monster like Godzilla to destroy the city. We could have done with that during the Iran and Nigeria game, we all got bored and switched off. But, if we knew the potential of a monster being unleashed we would have carried on watching it.

 

[TGW89]

naked cheerleaders clad only in body paint of competing teams.

like these tasty morsels....

Life's too short for body paint...

 

[TGW89]

After the group stages, half the teams go home early, and we're left with the elite of world football to fight it out to see who's the best team there.

But what about who's the worst team there?

My idea is to put all the bottom placed teams from each group into a knockout competition, to run alongside the proper comp. The loser of each game goes through, culminating in a grand final (possibly on the day of the final?). Each member of the losing team would have to carry piggy back style their corresponding counterpart from the winning team (coaches and managers included) as they pick up their medals and parade round the pitch.

I can just picture Hodgson sweating away lugging big Phil around the Maracana

Amateur, it would be a lot more entertaining if the grand losers just got automatically banned from the world cup for the next 20 years.... THAT would make 'em play!!!

Plus, some lesser known teams like Suriname and Chinese Taipei would get a look in rather than being bit players in the qualifying round

 

[ricardobee]

Amateur, it would be a lot more entertaining if the grand losers just got automatically banned from the world cup for the next 20 years.... THAT would make 'em play!!!

Plus, some lesser known teams like Suriname and Chinese Taipei would get a look in rather than being bit players in the qualifying round

How would that be more entertaining than watching Rooney have to carry Muller round the pitch like some potato headed donkey?

 

[TGW89]

How would that be more entertaining than watching Rooney have to carry Muller round the pitch like some potato headed donkey?

Because I am a complete sadist

 

[HuddersfieldToffee]

More places for Asian teams so I can hear Phil Neville attempt to talk about players he's blatantly never heard of.

 

[Bungle]

I suggest we turn the pitch into a real life version of that Minesweeper game, obviously the African nations will have an advantage but we'd soon catch up, and even if we didn't then the worst that happens is Gerrard and Co get blown up, it's win win really. Obviously I've arranged for Everton players to be flown home early.