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It is a ranking based on criteria. We can question the criteria all we want but all teams know the criteria and even hailed it for years (ELO) It will always give us random rankings which is the same with other sports. Only male tennis avoids this issue, mainly due to the dominance of the big 3

The issue with these threads is that people want rankings to match the eye test. The problem is that the eye test is subjective and so FIFA mirroring the ELO system is as close to objective as it gets

Messi. No one wants Argentina to win other than Argentine fans. The majority want Messi to win.

If it was not a team containing Messi, this would be called out more.

Yea true. I kinda want it to happen so that the world moves on from him and Ronaldo etc

That's the final done. The ending that was ordained

Argentina is a country that simply can't be liked by me, so I am in the anyone but Argentina camp which means they will win it.

Give it time, he will make one key mistake and the press will pile in on him. He will become risk-averse and seek to play in a way that means the press don't vilify him. Daily Mail have not yet found the angle to start a vendetta against him yet. That is in their 2024/25 plans.

Argentina have their name on the World Cup

There it is people....a taster of the angle the Daily Mail will take tomorrow. Sterling to take a big slice of blame pie.

Honestly, I was worried for Bellingham, Saka and Raheem if they made any errors. The racists were warming up their twitter fingers.

Kane will burst a lung trying to run.

The zonal marking versus man marking pundit debates can get in the bin.

The drama is so sweet. Argentina should be down to 9 men.

Ref is so crooked.