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"Money, Money, Money" Football World Cup 2026.

Okay, let's get this out of the way from the off. FIFA is corrupt, the competition should never have been given to US. This is simply about money. On that basis I hope it's a total financial flop of catastrophic proportions. Having said that will I be watching as many games as possible? Damn right, I love the big footie events. Another issue is the number of teams who have qualified. Far too many. Some of these teams are no better than a pub team and will be forgotten as soon as the next round begins and the competition starts "proper" with the round of 32, consisting of first 2 in each group and 8 of the "best of the rest" The timings of many of the games are certainly not Euro friendly with many being played between midnight and 5am. Not sure if the pubs will be open for any of these, though I remember in a previous World Cup going to the pub around 6 in the morning and staggering into the Kebab shop around tea time. Not sure there will be a big crowd for the Ecuador v Curacao game with a 3am kick off time. As I said the real thing will start later once, to quote Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, they "separate the wheat from the chaff" on this basis I don't intend to comment on every team of the group stages, just too many. I will do a separate post for each stage of the competition with comments on each team making the next stage of the competition. For this stage I will simply list the teams in each group in the order in which I expect them to finish. Hang on to your hats it's gonna be a long ride: Group A MEXICO South Korea Czechia South Africa Group B SWITZERLAND Canada Bosnia Qatar Group C BRAZIL Morocco Scotland Haiti Group D TURKEY USA Paraguay Australia Group E GERMANY Ivory Coast Ecuador Curacao Group F NETHERLANDS Japan Sweden Tunisia

Group G BELGIUM Egypt New Zealand Iran Group H SPAIN Uruguay Saudi Arabia Cape Verde Group I FRANCE Senegal Norway Iraq Group J ARGENTINA Algeria Austria Jordan Group K PORTUGAL Colombia Uzbekistan DR Congo Group L ENGLAND Croatia Ghana Panama