Didn’t We Meet At A Party?

There has to be something intrinsically wrong with the international footballing set-up, when two such great nations as Spain and Holland, have never before met in a competitive fixture.

It is a truly astonishing statistic that provides further ammunition for the scrapping of the present two-year cycle of tedious friendlies and qualifying rounds. We need to bring in a league now.

Sunday’s World Cup Final will be the first time in history – 80 years since such a tournament was incepted, that these two colourful countries meet with a shot fired in anger. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable, as there is no question that these two entities would be in the top tier, the first division of any international, be it continental or global, league structure. Their own histories go back decades, just imagine how such wonderful teams from both sides could’ve made such potentially spectacular matches.

It would be ludicrous to think that this could happen at club level. Two clubs, enormous in size and expectation, at the same high level, located not a million miles away from one another have never played each other, simply because their names have never came out of the hat to enable so. The football-spectating public have been deprived of such mouth-watering clashes. And why?

All so the likes of Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and San Marino manage to prevent that show by treating us to hopeless mis-matches time and again instead.

It’s time to do away with these needless qualifiers. (See previous post potty changes.) There really is a better way. Especially if Sunday’s final is a classic, let’s not be made to wait another four-fifths of a century for a re-match when there is such a huge demand.

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