And totally wrong,besides,population growth is wholly Southern Hemisphere, and Asia Northern Hemisphere population is falling, world population will double by the time of this world cup and most of that growth will be in non traditional footballing nations.The Southern/ Asia/China/India South...
FIFA/Blatter have stated that the issue is not the players,ALL stadia will have closed roofs and Air Con.They/he are doing us fans a favour their only concern is it will be too hot for us fans travelling to and hanging round outside the grounds.
How does a late night/early morning K/O fit in...
It will happen our leagues count for f@@k all with FIFA. Money rules and FIFA will build a massive profit on the back of this.
As for how many players will be lost to our Leagues,my money would be that if a World Cup was held tomorrow and an African Cup of Nations held next month we would loose...
with respect,you are mad if you think Blatter will miss the chance to build FIFA's bank account and did you notice "United chelsea arsenal et al" being able to stop players going to the African Cup of Nations EVERY TWO (not four) years. FIFA wants FIFA will get.