Barney Ronay suggests: 1) a great team; 2) a very good team that pushes them close; 3) a team that emerges from nowhere, like Cameroon 1990
https://www.theguardian.com/football...al-game-crisis
I think he is wildly optimistic*, but even if all those three criteria were fulfilled, I don't think it would a) take away the stink of corruption; b) stop the Champions League becoming ever more dominant over internationals; c) make future tournaments any more likely to be good.
*I think it will be a war of attrition, with the least tired team limping over the line in the final. VAR will make many games a fiasco. Refs will be shit. Russia's games will obviously be deeply suspicious.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...al-game-crisis
I think he is wildly optimistic*, but even if all those three criteria were fulfilled, I don't think it would a) take away the stink of corruption; b) stop the Champions League becoming ever more dominant over internationals; c) make future tournaments any more likely to be good.
*I think it will be a war of attrition, with the least tired team limping over the line in the final. VAR will make many games a fiasco. Refs will be shit. Russia's games will obviously be deeply suspicious.
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