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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 22:47:32 GMT
I actually think the World Cup should come back to England/UK before it goes back to North America. It's a bit of a joke that England hasn't hosted a World Cup since '66. A Brritish isles one would be good. Share it around a little. You could also do an Easter Europe one. It's half the size of Russia so why not? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 0:05:59 GMT
A joint UK and Ireland World Cup would be superb. The fans adore the sport, the stadiums are ready made, infrastructure is fine. One of the few places as well that if a World Cup had to be cancelled somewhere else and FIFA needed to drop it on someone with short notice, they could handle it fine.
Australia would be an epic World Cup too, disgrace it shows no signs of coming here. Football doesn't have a massive audience here admittedly, rugby, cricket and AFL far more popular, but it's hardly a national sport in America or bloody Qatar either. The Aussie's would get right behind a World Cup. The stadiums would sell out, it would be played in winter so the weather would be ideal (23 or so in Brisbane, 20 in Sydney, 15 in Melbourne, 18 in Adelaide and Perth, perfect football weather). The only negative is the time difference, but it's not so bad. 9 hours difference in the winter, so a 1 o clock kick off would start back in the UK at 4 in the morning, a 5 o clock kick off would be 8 in the morning and an 8 o clock kick off 11 in the morning.
FIFA talk about making the game more globalized, well the closest World Cup to Australia was the South Korea Japan one. I don't know if anyone at FIFA has looked at a map recently but it's not exactly close from Japan to Australia.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 0:18:59 GMT
A joint UK and Ireland World Cup would be superb. The fans adore the sport, the stadiums are ready made, infrastructure is fine. One of the few places as well that if a World Cup had to be cancelled somewhere else and FIFA needed to drop it on someone with short notice, they could handle it fine. Australia would be an epic World Cup too, disgrace it shows no signs of coming here. Football doesn't have a massive audience here admittedly, rugby, cricket and AFL far more popular, but it's hardly a national sport in America or bloody Qatar either. The Aussie's would get right behind a World Cup. The stadiums would sell out, it would be played in winter so the weather would be ideal (23 or so in Brisbane, 20 in Sydney, 15 in Melbourne, 18 in Adelaide and Perth, perfect football weather). The only negative is the time difference, but it's not so bad. 9 hours difference in the winter, so a 1 o clock kick off would start back in the UK at 4 in the morning, a 5 o clock kick off would be 8 in the morning and an 8 o clock kick off 11 in the morning. FIFA talk about making the game more globalized, well the closest World Cup to Australia was the South Korea Japan one. I don't know if anyone at FIFA has looked at a map recently but it's not exactly close from Japan to Australia. In Adelaide Rugby doesn't exist, cricket is a summer sports so doesn't really compete. AFL is getting caught up quickly. Far more people play soccer. The World Cup would absolutely cement it as the most popular sport imo. The FFA need to do whatever they can to get it here. |
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Post by DiegoRed on Sept 7, 2014 1:02:01 GMT
A WC is Australia or England/Ireland would be fucking awesome. I would go to either one and both deserve it. Sweden hosted in 1958 or 1962 I think, they probably should be looked at in the next few cycles as well.
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Post by grandpaTJ on Sept 8, 2014 4:15:00 GMT
I actually think the World Cup should come back to England/UK before it goes back to North America. It's a bit of a joke that England hasn't hosted a World Cup since '66. A Brritish isles one would be good. Share it around a little. You could also do an Easter Europe one. It's half the size of Russia so why not? It's not nice to piss off Uncle Blatter. Seems to me the problem England/Ireland will have getting the WC back is the desire to see it played in a fashion justifying the nick "The Beautiful Game" No one in the UK is going to grease Blatter's palms, (in fact wasn't it someone from FA that caught out some bribery that got kicked under the table?) an that totally corrupt, evil, (yes, I said evil!) Blivet somehow has his hands on a lot of throats. Amazes me that the man is totally unrepentant ab out the corruption, vote buying, sexist, racist crap that would bury anyone else but him. |
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Post by _ on Sept 8, 2014 10:52:39 GMT
Actually Australia would be a good venue as it would be winter there so no 40+C temperatures like in Qatar
Obviously with Australia being a civilised country they wouldn't bung Blatter just like England wouldn't - so no chance until the fucker dies or gets put away
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Post by redcase on Sept 8, 2014 11:46:35 GMT
Blatter announces he is putting his name in for re-election again.
Seriously what the fuck man. How come nobody else at FIFA wants a crack at the top job? How is this corrupt swine being allowed to continue to line his pockets up with stolen money?
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Post by _ on Sept 8, 2014 11:54:20 GMT
Blatter announces he is putting his name in for re-election again. Seriously what the fuck man. How come nobody else at FIFA wants a crack at the top job? How is this corrupt swine being allowed to continue to line his pockets up with stolen money? Wasn't the last challenger set up for a corruption charge himself? (Jack Warner IIRC) They are probably scared of what may be revealed if they challenge Blatter |
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Post by Deez on Sept 8, 2014 13:26:39 GMT
Is anyone seriously surprised?
FIFA have become a parody of themselves.
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Post by grandpaTJ on Sept 9, 2014 2:35:41 GMT
Blatter bout like J. Edgar Hoover, probably has warehouse full of incriminating evidence against hundreds of people.
Would imagine his victories in elections come from corrupt, 3rd world countries where a liberal greasing of the palms
of officials is customary and expected.
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Post by Kamilo on Sept 9, 2014 8:57:31 GMT
Feel like every major tournament of late has been deemed a disaster before it even kicked off. In the end they all turned out fine, football was played, fans were happy. Money was made, FIFA didn't complain.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 11:26:15 GMT
the world cup isn't going to be held in qatar apparently
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 11:31:04 GMT
I saw that all over twitter yesterday, then all the hacks came out and rubbished it..not sure what's going on
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Post by Jayrannasaurus on Sept 23, 2014 11:32:14 GMT
And so end one of the most retarded sporting bureaucracy (corruption) sagas of our time.
Let's hope.
Heard they're considering Greenland as an alternative.
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Post by _ on Sept 23, 2014 11:52:50 GMT
And so end one of the most retarded sporting bureaucracy (corruption) sagas of our time. Let's hope. Heard they're considering Greenland as an alternative. At least the pitch will be the right colour  |
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