Nations League

[Kirishima]

UEFA will be starting the Nations League as a kind of junior tournament to the European championship qualifiers

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26762899

Basically four divisions, 1-4 sorted by rankings, i.e Div.1. would be all the best teams, but each division winner gets a spot in the Euros. We'd be Div.3 and if we won it, a place in the Euros is ours!

[Rainbow]

Those idiots at UEFA, FIFA etc. should be sent to closed wards for their megalomania first, and after that to a nice cell (I'm tempted to say Azkaban) for corruption. Has anybody asked players and especially fans about their wishes? I doubt it!

[Iain]

Those idiots at UEFA, FIFA etc. should be sent to closed wards for their megalomania first, and after that to a nice cell (I'm tempted to say Azkaban) for corruption. Has anybody asked players and especially fans about their wishes? I doubt it!

 

All 52 member association members agreed. I don't see any harm in cutting the amount of friendlies we play in half to accomodate this. In saying that I don't like the fact a place in the Euros is up for grabs.

Edited March 27, 2014 by Iain

[KingBeastie]

This was designed as a sort of Champions League for International teams.

The Champions League has just seen the rich clubs get richer and thus the divide within leagues across Europe get bigger.

I wonder what long term effect this will have on national teams?

[culduthel]

Great opportunity for a North Atlantic group -  Scotland, Iceland, Nth Ireland, Faeroe Islands and hopefully Greenland.  I reckon if we played in this group we would get at least six points from playing Greenland and come in second last.  Bring it on I say!  A chance for Scotland to capture former glories.