there really is nothing more obscene about futball than the tie-breaker they use to have a team advance out of the first round to the knock-out rounds.. FIFA in their infinite wisdom decided that the best way to break a tie between two teams with identical records should be goal-differential. This is like two teams in football ending the season tied with identical records and the NFL using total touchdowns thrown as the deciding factor. It might not be that ludicrous but the NFL's first tie-breaker is head-to-head which in every game -other than Fantasy Football- makes sense as it would put the onus on something real like play on the field as opposed to something that can be easily inflated with late goals in a blow-out game.
So I'm calling on FIFA to change the tie-breaker rule moving forward to the following criteria
record in the round-robin round
head-to-head
if the head-to-head ends in a draw then the next tie-breaker could level of hotness of the team's fans
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then you can go to goal-differential.
Level of hotness of the team's female fans is not an even playing field.
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But where would that leave England? In the bottom of the shitter.
The Brits wouldn't stand for this, and with FIFA, money talks.