Think that was bad, read down the article to this hack's views on the Football WC. Peter Laamp has been writing for the Manawatu Evening Standard (meaning Rugby), before I was a Massey Uni student in the early 1990s.
God knows how his erroneous fluff, gets a regular airing on Stuff.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/300771732/gregory-peck--a-star-in-our-midst-but-not-the-american-one
Geography counts
The rather strange football World Cup format where teams qualify according to where they sit on the map should benefit New Zealand in four years' time.
God knows how his erroneous fluff, gets a regular airing on Stuff.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/300771732/gregory-peck--a-star-in-our-midst-but-not-the-american-one
Geography counts
The rather strange football World Cup format where teams qualify according to where they sit on the map should benefit New Zealand in four years' time.
FIFA is expanding the World Cup teams from 32 to 48 and if the All Whites win the Oceania Confederation, as they usually do, then that should get them to the United States.
As it is now, they must beat the fifth-ranked South American side and that was Peru in 2017 and Costa Rica this year, tough chores indeed.