World Cup 2018 in England

Its been marked as a downside of the russian bid, one of the main stadiums to the other takes 12 hours by high speed train.

 

agreed , thats why i wasnt refeering to the russian bid.....

 

Should Russia be eliminated with 6 votes in the 2nd round, that would leave us and Spain on 8 a piece. If the 6 Russian voters go 3 each way, we have a tie. and Blatter votes for Spain.

 

You know what, I wouldn't be too upset if we missed out. Especially if Spain/Portugal got it.

 

Not long now.:italian:

 

I don't know why anyone cares.

We will be shyte as we have no young players coming through, and then we won't get it for another 75 years.

 

Shoutbox open

 

Money for Spain very late at the bookies.

 

Russia

 

Hmm, what a surprise. England or Spain-Portugual would've been too easy for FIFA and they wouldn't be able to show us all the great stuff they've done for a struggling nation e.g. South Africa.

 

some bloke at work is gutted as he thinks it would have solved the economic crisis.......

 

I can get Russia being chosen. Not my choice, I'd have much rather Spain/Portugal if it wasn't going to be England but I can see the whole 'legacy' thing. Russia needs to modernise on several sporting and non-sporting fronts and the WC may give them that impetus. The USSR did a fair bit in football back in the day and Russia are maybe underachievers and this will give them a kick start. But Qatar? That's beyond ridiculous.

I think it's about time we stopped going in for hosting it. It's just not worth the effort.

 

Well done the British press (why not leave the shock revelations until after the vote?), well done the Birmingham fans, well done the incorruptible FIFA Executive, and especially well done Qatar, the home of air-conditioned indoor football and global warming specialists.

But at least there won’t be World Cup football at the FranchiseDome.

And as the wise Sepp has said, football isn’t just about winning, it’s about losing too.

 

this means that qatar will spend billions on lovely stadia that will only be used once!

 

It's just a case of how much Oil money has changed hands. Is obvious scandal, and I can't see us ever being chosen if not this time when we had by far the superior bid. It's a shame.

 

Apparently they're going to give the stadiums away to developing countries once WC 2022 is done! A barmy idea. Still, an indoor World Cup. Nice.

 

More proof as to FIFA's corrupt status, they hate England, just as simple as that.

 

To be fair , who doesnt hate people like rio ferdinand and david cameron ?

 

As Alan Shearer said - if we couldn't get it with this bid, we'll never get it.

At least I'll always have '66! :tongue1:

 

I don't like Ferdinand, true. But I like Cameron, so your statement is flawed.

 

To me , it isnt , and stu , that`s all that really matters

 

Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinions of course!

In other news, ironically, From Russia with Love is on ITV4 now, I'm going to watch it to cheer me up.

 

It won't be hot in the stadia, because of the air-conditioning. And apparently FIFA was really impressed with the idea of demolishing the stadia and sending them to the Third World - I wonder if anyone did any lifecycle analysis on that?

Looks like global warming and environemtal sustainability have based FIFA by - but there again, what doesn't, except kickbacks?

 

Here Dave

Have one of these....

 

Oh dear. FIFA is as corrupt as they come.

 

Qatar?

Are
they
taking
the
*******
****?

Corrupt as they come. I don't blame the BBC whatsoever, they were on to the scummers.

 

THAT, is a very good point. I feel a little better now.

 

most of the +malnutrioned scum voting barstewards are from the third world countires - have you seen the list of uckoigs who voted..... no wonder the camel humpers got it...

all kin politics nowt to do with sport or the fans who pay for the tickets.

no hooligansim in qatar, if you show3 a bare finger in public it will be chopped off...

uckin scummmmmmmers

 

I can understand that we didn't win it, but how we 'apparently' came fourth is beyond me. On the plus side at least MK don't get to host World Cup matches
:forehead:

Seriously, how many fans are really going to travel to Qatar in '22, ridiculous

 

SSN reports that England got 4 votes and was knocked out first. Apparently Jack Warner's votes may not have materialised.

 

Well done Brummies.

 

Sorry but that has sod all to do with it. A few numpties throwing a flare around aren't going to make a difference.