[danielf]

Originally Posted by Russ

Well if you're going to win it (albeit with an illegal goal but that's by-the-by) then obviously you would get to the semi-final too. But more teams make it past there more often - that should be an ideal measure of an 'elite' tournament if there was one.

By that reasoning, Brazil only made it to three semis. Seems a rather flawed way of looking at things...