Originally Posted by
lardy
Qualification should be easy if you're a big team, particularly in Europe. Close to half the countries who qualify will be European (13 out of 31). If Italy don't make it, it's entirely their fault. They even have the advantage of seeding. South America is more difficult.
Got no sympathy with a big country failing and I don't think the competition will suffer if they're not good enough. As I said above, I'm amazed it's a Welsh person with this view. You must think we wrongly took the Dutch place in France, yeah?