if England boycott the WC what happens then ? will the other teams in the group just get a walkover in those games or will FiFA replace England’s spot? If so, how?
There was talk of Japan, Australia & Poland boycotting too which would at least give FiFA the chance to allow some of the losing play off teams to take their places …it would be a bit weird however for New Zealand to take a boycotting Australia’s place or ROI and/or NI to take England’s place
Wouldn’t surprise me though if Italy and USA somehow made it along
I don’t know if/how they’d fill any spaces caused by a boycott. I do, however, know that the eventual winners of a world cup that was subject to a boycott would rightly be derided forever as having won a tainted tournament - it would be better never to have won than to have tried to claim a victory in such circumstances.
just read that Yugoslavia got sacked off from the Euros 1992 at a week’s notice because of the civil war/UN security council amendment, thus Denmark got draughted in