Oliver Johnson

But the danger with that is you might end up with fixtures happening that have already happened.

So, for example, Scotland play Brazil in the final game.

It could be the case that you draw them out of the hat and then Scotland play Brazil three days later in the last 32.

And that wouldn't seem very interesting.

So we want to mix things up as much as possible.

So the way that this draw is designed is that games that have happened once can't happen again until at least they get to the quarterfinal stage.

So it's meant to keep it more interesting.

Yes.

And so this is why FIFA have this very, very complicated table.

If you go to their website, they have a table which has 495 rows in corresponding to each of the possible sets of teams that might come through, assigning where everybody will end up and where everybody will play in the next round after that.

It's a magnificent thing.

I'm not sure that they have, to be honest.

If you want to have 12 groups, unfortunately, I think you do have to have some sort of system like this to deal with it.

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