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četrtek julij 18 - 12:20 Vincent you are funny :)
Tell me when was country like Faroe Island host of WC? Usually host country is strong country with big chances to qualify anyway so it's some kind of reward for them not to compete with others and to qualify directly. Same goes for champion that automatically qualifies as well. In reality they both play only friendlies in that period.
If you want for Faroe Islands to be host of some future WC make it so but then they don't have to play at qualifications in any of the groups.
The Nederlands had some advantage this time: when they don't have to think about qualifications they can rotate more players. They are all great players but their coach doesn't have to wonder will he miss the finals if he plays with players that are not best but still very good. Other countries don't have that luxury. Most other countries were forced to play with best players in all of their matches. Tell me it isn't advantage if 20 players gets some experience instead of only 13 or 14? It's not about playing with worse squad it's about playing with more rotations as any good manager would do in that situation. Beeing aware of that or not in wanting for Nederlands not to be in disadvantage you actually gave them big advantage over others!
While i'm sure you want to be fair you are also Dutch and you can't help it. I really cannot blame you for doing what's best for your country as i would probably think the same way. But try not to do anything that makes disbalance. If you have to choose between The Nederlands and rest of the World your choice should be the one that effects less people...