"Declining television rights deals, rising costs, tweaked formats and the age-old challenge of trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot in terms of the global fixture list have all diluted the warm, fuzzy glow that once suffused the entire event."
"No longer do sides play everybody else in their pool, with the compelling see-you-later-pal home-and-away double-headers also a thing of the past. Gone, too, are random draws to determine knockout pairings."
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