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FIFA considers 64-team World Cup because apparently 48 wasn’t enough

Post author:Alaa Shamali
Post published:31 July 2026
Post last modified:31 July 2026

FIFA is considering expanding the men’s World Cup to 64 teams for the 2030 tournament. This would mark the competition’s 100th anniversary. According to documents seen by Reuters, football’s governing body will begin a formal review of the proposal on 14 August. An independent organisation will be asked to assess whether the expansion is workable. Its findings are due by 11 September, before FIFA decides whether to take the idea any further. FIFA’s latest light-bulb moment The proposal came from South America’s football confederation, CONMEBOL. It believes the centenary World Cup should include more nations than ever before. The review will…

Makerfield wasn’t the only by-election Reform UK just lost

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:19 June 2026

In addition to losing in Makerfield, Reform UK lost the two seats it literally just won last month. Reform losses, Tory gains The 18 June by-elections in Essex took place because the Reform winner — you guessed it — turned out to be a racist mess. Stuart Prior had won both a County Council seat and a District Council seat in May. So both required new elections. Even before Reform snatched Essex from the Tories, there had already been reporting that Prior had shown support for the rape of Sikh women and called white people ‘the master race’. Along with vile Islamophobic…