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Commonwealth Football Championship
As there is the Commonwealth Games.. Is there any chance of a Commonwealth Football Championship as it may be the only chance any of the Home Nations are likely to win a competition.
I predict England will be the favourites and Australia are getting a good team and Scotland would easily appear in these finals and possibility able to host these finals unlike the WC and Euros. What do you think? |
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As there is the Commonwealth Games.. Is there any chance of a Commonwealth Football Championship as it may be the only chance any of the Home Nations are likely to win a competition.
I predict England will be the favourites and Australia are getting a good team and Scotland would easily appear in these finals and possibility able to host these finals unlike the WC and Euros. What do you think? |
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Out of the World Cup teams this year, only England, Australia, Ghana and Nigeria who also compete in the Commonwealth Games would be in this competition
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Out of the World Cup teams this year, only England, Australia, Ghana and Nigeria who also compete in the Commonwealth Games would be in this competition
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It'd be a good idea for younger players at least.
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It'd be a good idea for younger players at least.
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Out of the World Cup teams this year, only England, Australia, Ghana and Nigeria who also compete in the Commonwealth Games would be in this competition
I'd imagine we'd have a 16 team tournament The 4 home nations Australia Ghana Nigeria New Zealand South Africa Trinidad & Tobago Canada Jamaica Cyprus Cameroon (oh, there's another one from this year's world cup) Singapore |
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As a youth tournie it might have some merit.
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Don't really see the point in adding to an already crowded fixture calendar with a meaningless tournament.
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Don't really see the point in adding to an already crowded fixture calendar with a meaningless tournament.
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seven a side!
would fully endorse this |
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You've also got New Zealand, South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago who have qualified for recent world cups and a handful of other countries with some footballing heritage
I'd imagine we'd have a 16 team tournament The 4 home nations Australia Ghana Nigeria New Zealand South Africa Trinidad & Tobago Canada Jamaica Cyprus Cameroon (oh, there's another one from this year's world cup) Singapore Pot 1 England Scotland Ghana Wales Pot 2 Nigeria Sierra Leone (no 54 in rankings!) Cameroon Australia Pot 3 South Africa Trinidad and Tobago Zambia Jamaica Pot 4 Uganda Northern Ireland Botswana New Zealand Other teams in the game by Fifa Kenya Canada Namibia Rwanda Mozambique Malawi Malta St Vincent and the Grenadines St Lucia Lesotho Cyprus Grenada Maldives Antigua and Barbuda Belize Malaysia India Singapore Guyana St Kitts and Nevis Pakistan Montserrat Bangladesh Dominica Barbados Swaziland Bermuda Sri Lanka Solomon Islands Seychelles Mauritius Bahamas Fiji Samoa Vanuatu Brunei Darussalam Tonga Cayman Islands Papua New Guinea British Virgin Islands Cook Islands Anguilla Turks and Caicos Islands and new team Gibraltar |
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Not a bad idea at all to have another tournament. How about the home nations, Ireland and three invited teams, run it parallel to the Confederations cup.
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within the games themselves though
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Not a bad idea at all to have another tournament. How about the home nations, Ireland and three invited teams, run it parallel to the Confederations cup.
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now the Commonwealth Games are approaching. Best to get the discussing alive again
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now the Commonwealth Games are approaching. Best to get the discussing alive again
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It would be a complete car crash of a tournament.
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As there is the Commonwealth Games.. Is there any chance of a Commonwealth Football Championship as it may be the only chance any of the Home Nations are likely to win a competition.
I predict England will be the favourites and Australia are getting a good team and Scotland would easily appear in these finals and possibility able to host these finals unlike the WC and Euros. What do you think? |
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Out of the World Cup teams this year, only England, Australia, Ghana and Nigeria who also compete in the Commonwealth Games would be in this competition
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I suspect there would be problems with the legality of it. It would have to be a FIFA sanctioned event and I imagine they might have problems with the idea of such a tournament, especially as it's held in World Cup year every four years.....in effect, it could be seen as a 'rival' event to the World Cup (in a heavily diluted form of course).
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I suspect there would be problems with the legality of it. It would have to be a FIFA sanctioned event and I imagine they might have problems with the idea of such a tournament, especially as it's held in World Cup year every four years.....in effect, it could be seen as a 'rival' event to the World Cup (in a heavily diluted form of course).
It could work with some sort of stipulation such as that. |
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