The whole point of three-team groups was that it would still take 7 games to win the World Cup, so clubs were happy.
Now it's an extra game asked on players, so the clubs are presumably going to have to be in on this.
I imagine they can be bought off - but if you have 48 teams going to a last 32, why not in due course make it 64 teams and have top two go through?
It's all starting to eat itself I think...
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