Happy international break everybody. Yours truly totally forgot to put this together Sunday night but rest assured, your favorite place to start (Friday and Monday) mornings is back up and running.
A story I missed last week but which our fearless leader Atlantis96 sent my way is the ongoing push to expand the Club World Cup. The plan would transforming from the dinky, UEFA-dominated tournament that it is currently into a 21-team behemoth that would replace the Confederations Cup and become an honest-to-God major tournament.
The problem is UEFA doesn’t want a major tournament that even closely resembles the Champions League.