FIFA President Gianni Infantino today outlined his proposals for an expanded World Cup format.
Infantino showed reporters a napkin and a cigarette packet on which he had drawn some of his ideas, which include:
Abolishing qualifying rounds and expanding the finals to include all countries and territories in addition to historical ones such as New Holland, Mercia, East Prussia and Gondwanaland; lengthening the competition duration to four years; shortening matches to 10 minutes, which would be decided by a bake-off in the event of a draw; abolishing handball and offside offences in order to encourage more goals.
Under the new proposals corporate sponsors would be able to bid for the national teams' names: preliminary deals are already said to have been struck, including BMW Germany, Santander Spain and Betfred England. Match officials would be supplied by private security contractor Academi.
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