Is the Global Game Dead?

What is the point of international football?
A week after less than 1000 people turned out to see the thoroughly inane encounter between Northern Ireland and Wales, I wonder if today’s fan even cares about the international game.

Club football is king today. The Uefa Champions League Final is arguably bigger than the World Cup and the Barclays Premier League involves so much money, that relegation brings a real danger of putting clubs out of business.
Fifa have shown they are unfit to run the world game in recent weeks, with bribery allegations dragging the governing body further down into the gutter, leaving question marks over where it goes from here.
A withdrawal from Fifa is an unlikely scenario for England and other national associations but maybe it is something they should consider?
The middle-aged suits that run the game have shown they have no concept of what is happening to the game around them and seem more focused on personal progression rather than footballing equality.
In my opinion club football will always come first for a fan and, if you listen to the constant complaints of managers, players play far too much football anyway, so what is the future for the international game? Does it have one?
There is no doubt that the World Cup is still an amazing spectacle but, for many, it is only a stop-gap until ‘real’ football starts again in August.  It could also be argued that the image of the World Cup has changed anyway.  A defensive feast of negativity and crude tactics. Cruyff and Neeskins must have been crying into their Oranjeboom when witnessing Holland’s dreadful tactics during the 2010 Final.

Would the loss of international football be such a blow for the ‘national’ game? I don’t think so.
As a fan living 200 miles north of Watford a trip to Wembley to see England is out of the question normally anyway so my only connection to them is through the television.
No World Cup would mean no qualifying tournaments and more rest for players, which in turn would mean less injuries and a better standard of club football. It would also have the benefit of avoiding the constant humiliation the England national team face when they make their usual premature exit.

This may seem like an extreme proposal but the way football is evolving, you never know.