that's the point, once you've weeded out the countries with an infastructure able to host the euros, out of the ones that are too small to do it your left with little choice except to cycle round england, spain, italy, germany, france and russia. that's your suggestion? endlessly reward the same nations again and again.
why should other countries be excluded from hosting football tournaments when they have the facilities to do so just because of the population of the country they belong to? it's like the Champions league mentality is bleeding into international football, only a few are allowed to compete on equal footing and the rest get shafted.
If the current format is kept, if the euro's have to be rotated around the big countries so be it. As i said with the FIFA world cup, every country in the world won't get a chance to host it, because hosting such major sporting tournaments means your country has to be developed. Its not simply about if you have passionate football fans.
It would be nice if other minor countries could get to see the football of course. Which is why i say and have thought since about euro 2004, that the euro's should be structured like the champions league & play home/away matches in the group & knockout phase.
So lets say Poland is playing Spain in a euro group match - the poles will @ least get to see spain & whatever big country in that specific group in a home leg match. Instead of having to travel to a country to watch them play. This makes far more sense that uefa's idea for the 2020 tournament imo.
just pointing out that the logistics of travel are dealt with on a weekly basis by most players and have been dealt with in major tournaments numerous times, it doesn't need to be kept inside a border to work.
Oh ok. But we have to see what format uefa suggests, because as i sit here & think i cant imagine any sensible format uefa can come up with, that would make the scheduling sensible. So whats your position on the increase to 24 teams then?
so you'd be prepared to stand up say that the world cup should categorically not, and never ever, be in brazil? it's just too big?
or are you saying your only problem with a multi-country tournament is you're not convinced it will be well scheduled? 3 of the last 4 ECs have been multi country events, kiev and poland wasn't the first, and the others were fine. as you said, you don't know, it might well be very well organised. but anyway, it sounds like you disagree in principle and want it hosted in a single country but of that highlighted sentence the phrase "at least it's in one country" hasn't been backed up with any arguements, it's just been tacked onto complaints about the format.
the historical beauty of the royal family was you were born into a life of privilege, power and unmatched wealth. times change. football leagues are melting pots of all colours and creeds, football is supported vehemently in every corner or europe, and that huge fanbase is the reason it has such draw. all the big countries have hosted several major tournaments, time to start sharing it out a bit.
Only thing i guess brazil should have done is not host the cup in so much cities around the country. Maybe they should have kept the games in a specific region of the country alone. So yea i think everyone realizes, that part of the scheduling is a mistake & fans going will plan according unless they are very very rich.
I did say after the part you bold, that if its in one country as things usually are fans can plan to follow their teams better. Travelling around europe due to the fairly easy eu travel constraints isn't the issue.
The format isn't spell out - but their is some talk of a country being a "host city". How logical is then Germany playing england in the "host city" of Moscow, when in the host city of "munich" sweden is playing spain in another group??
All that travelling across countries to follow your team would clearly be more expensive in uefa's suggestion that if its held in one country. However as i said above, if the travelling across europe to watch the euro's is done in a champions league formats, which fans know about and find acceptable - that makes far more sense.
