Jonathan Wilson: UEFA's League of Nations sounds good, so what's the catch?

[Jonathan Wilson]

The instinctive reaction to UEFA's unveiling of its plans for a League of Nations is confusion -- and not just because the press release was so badly worded that nobody actually understands it. On the one hand, something that diminishes the number of meaningless international friendlies has to be a good thing, but on the other, it's hard not to greet any new UEFA initiative, particularly one involving a convoluted tournament format, with anything but suspicion.

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