2020 Euro tournament to be spread across Europe?

[trousers]

@SkyFootball: The Football Association has put forward Wembley to UEFA as a potential venue for the final of Euro 2020 - http://t.co/Gd9rr7rf

 

@RobHarris: Platini has proposed scattering Euro2020 across up to 12 nations, rather than selecting 1 host. FA wants semis & final at Wembley

 

Platini losing the plot or good idea?

 

Won't spreading the finals across Europe simply mimic the qualifying stages? Bonkers IMO.

[Thedelldays]

Poor idea.

 

Part of the euros and world cups is for a nation to show off what it is all about and for others to explore that country etc

[View From The Top]

Won't happen. It will end up in one country.

[hypochondriac]

What is the point?

[stevegrant]

It's an absolute abomination of an idea, but it's one that will more than likely get enough support from the nations who perhaps have one or two large stadia but nowhere near enough to host a full tournament themselves, because this will enable them to be involved.

 

There are only a few European nations who would be able to host the tournament in its new ridiculous 24-team format anyway, as you'd need at least 12 stadia with a capacity of 35k or more. England, France, Portugal, Germany and Italy are probably the only realistic individual hosts - co-hosting obviously allows more in, but that introduces more logistical problems.

 

Platini has done an incredible job of completely ruining a brilliant tournament. 16 teams is the perfect size considering the number of nations in Europe and the relative level of the best teams. There are very few really weak teams who qualify (Ireland this year are probably the one exception, but they were expected to at least put up a fight) in that format, but with 24 teams they're basically allowing half of UEFA to qualify, and with seeding ensuring the best teams more or less avoid each other in the group stages, there will be more one-sided games in the tournament.

 

Based on the current FIFA rankings, the likes of Slovenia, Norway, Hungary and Slovakia would qualify, while the two highest-ranked nations to just miss out are Wales and Scotland, both of whom are terrible teams these days.