Mike Sarich

@Laporte @SEFutbol So happy for you! 😊 #CTID

⭐️⭐️ #AL14 @SEFutbol

@notwillyoung86 @IanDarke @JeremyCheehan 😂😂😂😂😂 Maybe when it was founded; however, the reality in 2026 is much different. Plus the cash funds all sorts of grass roots etc. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@mikesarich @IanDarke @JeremyCheehan FIFA is a not-for-profit organisation, not a business.

I can think of one 🇺🇸

@IanDarke @JeremyCheehan You'll never make as much $ as you do in the United States anywhere else in the world. (Right now) FIFA is a business. Every 2nd or 3rd World Cup will be in the US and it will be 64 teams.

@JeremyCheehan The World Cup belongs to The World. Could it ever go again to say , South Africa ?

@IanDarke Just do them all in the US, problem solved

A 64-team World Cup would involve 128 games. …24 more than the one just ended. Presents big logistical issues. How many countries can provide enough training bases/venues ? How long will it take to play ? Think it will happen though.

@SheikhMCI He's the best!

A world champion liked my post. How cool.

@FSDPod Think that Rodri gets significant credit for the defensive stats. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@mikesarich Hard to look past Mbappe, Olise maybe with a shout too. Bellingham?

Is it somewhere in the rules that all the individual award winners just happen to have played in the final? Rodri was nowhere near the best player at the World Cup but he’s 10 feet from the award ceremony so gets it anyway 😬 #argentina

@SheikhMCI @Laporte My absolute #1 favorite City player! Our "VVD consolation prize" was an absolute warrior for @ManCity and gave everything for us!

Congratulations @Laporte. One of the most underrated defenders in the world, a serial winner, a warrior, and now a WORLD CHAMPION.

As a football fan this gets you in the feels a bit, but as an Englishman… Inject them tears into my veins. #Argentina #WorldCup

This game feels like Soccer Aid 😂 Loads of space in behind, walking pace footy and no one’s really arsed. Just waiting for Lee Mack to leave a cruncher on Ben Shepherd before being subbed for a love islander. #FRAENG #England

@OasisMania @liamgallagher @NoelGallagher Lennon and McCartney

You can only pick two support acts for Oasis in 2027. Who are you choosing?

It's okay to love America.

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@chiamakaafc Julian Alvarez

Name ONE player who has won all these. just give up you can’t 😂

FIFA is floating a 64-team World Cup, and the whole football world is groaning. I am not. I just think they will do it badly, because they always do it badly. So here is the version that works. Sixteen groups of four. Two advance. That gives you a clean 32-team knockout bracket and kills the ugliest thing about the current format, those eight best third-place finishers they invented because 48 does not divide cleanly into anything. It was a fudge and everyone knew it. Sixty-four fixes it by accident. 127 matches. 64 nations. And the champion still plays only eight games. You doubled the field and did not add a step to the winner's road. Now the part that changes everything. One group, one city. Sixteen groups. Sixteen host cities. Your group plays every match in the same place. Fans book one hotel, one flight, one week off work, and settle in. Right now a supporter chases their team across a continent, three cities, three flights, three hotels, and half of them just give up and watch from home. Under this, a city does not host a match. A city adopts four countries for two weeks. And oh, the cities are going to have opinions. Whoever draws Japan should just relax. Those fans will stay after every match and clean the stadium, and if they get bored they may simply tidy up the whole city while they are at it. You will get your town back better than you left it. Whoever draws Scotland needs to order the booze in advance. All of it. Call your distributor now. The Tartan Army will be the best-behaved, most joyful, most catastrophically thirsty guests you have ever hosted, and they will make lifelong friends of everyone they meet, right up until the beer runs out and there is a diplomatic incident. Whoever draws the Netherlands needs to source orange buses. And orange everything. Those people will turn your downtown into a citrus flood, they will bring a marching band nobody asked for, and honestly it will be the best two weeks your city has ever had. Whoever draws Argentina, may God be with you. Whoever draws Norway, get the salmon in. Whoever draws Mexico, congratulations, your city just became a party and you were not consulted. That is a World Cup. Not a logistics exercise. A town square with the whole world in it. And here is the money. The moment the seeding is announced, the entire bracket exists. Every path, every matchup, every city, on one sheet of paper, months out. Bracket mania. Global bracket mania. Americans fill out 60 to 70 million brackets every March for a college basketball tournament. Office pools. Group chats. Grandmothers picking by mascot. It is the most engaging fortnight on our calendar and it exists entirely because you can see the whole map at once. Now do that with the entire planet. Which means killing the draw. Let us be honest about what that ceremony is. A man in a suit pulling balls from a bowl while the world pretends the biggest decision of the tournament was left to chance. It is a plot device, and it always bends the same direction. Toward the money, toward the hosts, toward the broadcast windows. The draw is not a ritual. It is a lever. So do it the American way. A committee seeds all 64, publishes the criteria, announces the bracket live, then defends it in public while the whole planet screams at the television. Transparency does not kill the drama. It creates it. And oh yeah. Kill the third place game. Nobody cares that you are the second best loser. Two heartbroken teams playing an exhibition in front of people who came for something else. No child has ever dreamed of lifting that trophy. Cut it. More nations. Cleaner bracket. One city per group. A bracket you can hold in your hand. Show me the committee. Show me the criteria. Then hand me a pen. I have picks to make. 🦋

@Selene_Mariposa #Genius pure genius!