I’d play footie at 1am 
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Ah right.
The concept needs some work admittedly.
On the same day would do.
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Tire yourself out and sleep through it.
Just tell Iran to stop trying to get nuclear weapons or we will give Israel the spot.
And then create the NoBluff Peace Accord and get rid of the nobel peace prize.
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This is how Americans view sports. They view it less like sport that is interesting because of the competition, and more like a summer blockbuster film where people will only be interested if its familiar and includes the historical big names. This time of year now the NBA play offs are going one of the biggest stories will be whether the “small market” San Antonio Spurs making the finals will be good for the NBA regardless of how compelling a story they are and how good they are to watch. If people in the media, and in the league even, had their way it would be locked in now for finals that were the Lakers against either NY or Boston. Demanding Italy replace a team they think no one will want to watch is just precisely how they think about sporting competition.
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Sadly it is going to happen, why Italy would get the approval over any other nation, I have no idea?
Could you imagine the backlash frenzy if then Italy went on to lift the 2026 WC. I do remember Denmark winning in 92 but I was 17 back then, didn’t give two shits and had no access to social media.
Denmark got in in 92 by coming second in Yugoslavia’s group. It was the obvious choice to fill the open spots made much easier by it being a Euros rather than World Cup and so there being only 1 confederation to consider.
Asian qualifying is complicated with the teams who came behind Iran in qualifying already given multiple second chances (its like Henry Kelly’s Going for Gold) with a losers bracket that produced two direct qualifiers and even losers of the losers bracket still having a path via the intercontinental play offs. Iraq beat Bolivia in that play off so its not a slam dunk that that the replacement would have to come from Asia, but as @mattyhurst says UAE (loser in the final round of loser bracket in Asia) and Bolivia (loser to Iraq in the intercontinental play off) are the two obvious candidates.
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The extra surreal thing is that it was Bosnia who took Italy out of contention to qualify.
One horse race then and has to be the UAE.
Nothing to do with their friendly oil ships docked in a limbo, but more because Bolivia like that genuine good old coke!
We give the spot to Bolivia only to start a war with them 6 weeks before the tournament forcing them to bow out. We later find out that Jared was paid $1B by City’s owner to make Trump start dropping the bombs in the hope that UAE would get the newly available spot at the second time of asking
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Yeah … now that’s a tangent looking like there’s something in it 
Makes the epstein and the 115 charges smokescreen way more murkier
Coz the orange pervert has a thing for Meloni.
And Infantino is Italian
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Ah she’s pissed him off, however the latter is probably why they would.
I’ll meet you in Berlin
Don’t trust him @Cologne-Liverpool 
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MH, I’m so sorry 
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I’m joking
Or am I?
Infantino gave Trump that tacky cup,peace cup??? Trump is thanking him,what a massive devaluation of the WC!
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MH still hasn’t recovered from meeting up with @Bekloppt
Fify
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