Quote Originally Posted by JamesMcClean View Post
The round of 16 set up is actually a bit of a joke. It's surely not right that in a cup tournament, it's already pre determined who you're likely to get before a ball is kicked. Instead why don't they have a further draw immediately after the groups for the round of 16. Group winners earn a seeding, runners up non seeded. Therefore the incentive is there to win the group and avoid 'match fixing' so as to deliberately dodge a certain team in the next round.
That makes a lot of sense JYM. Can you email FIFA? There are going to be a lot of 'funny' games over the next 3 days. I guess it makes for some intrigue at least.