stewart12
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- Jan 16, 2019
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when England went for the 2018 WC (a 32 team tournament) the bid involved quite a few new/massively renovated stadiums
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[Football] 2030 World Cup
- Thread starter Randy McNob
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when England went for the 2018 WC (a 32 team tournament) the bid involved quite a few new/massively renovated stadiums
Did we ever?
Even our friends the Germans were embroiled in bribery claims.
I’ve long assumed that we’ll never see another WC on these shores.
We don’t play the game of £10m’s in gifts to shady football characters.
(This isn’t UK party political. 2006 failed under Labour, 2018 under Coalition/Tory).
Russia and Qatar have many enemies across the world, their aggressive PR is assassinating opponents.
It’s all about money.
Farehamseagull
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FFS. Spending £2.8 million on something doomed to failure, and at this time of national crisis and economic shit. Twats.
As said above, typical populist bullshit from this bunch of inept shysters.
As said above, typical populist bullshit from this bunch of inept shysters.
- Jul 10, 2003
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We have plenty of shady characters we hand £10m's in gifts to. Why on earth would we want more
Failure, Doomed, To (see if you can arrange these words into a well known saying)
But it will give keep the front pages busy for another day, so all in all £2.8M well spent.
That was nothing to do with PR. We weren’t as corrupt as other nations and didn’t bribe our way to votes a la Russia and Quatar.
Do you think this might be the last legacy of Boris, the Great Unificator?
Or do I mean lying fornicator?
There is an economic case to be made for hosting an even like this as well. £2.8m whilst a lot of money to most of us is a tiny fraction of government spending.
If successful, hosting a World Cup can provide an incalculable economic boom to a country, covering the costs and then some.
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
Go and tell that to the South Africans and Brazillians.
And we're throwing money away as we won't get it anyway.
Spain & Portugal would be pretty good for a classic LADS LADS LADS football holiday.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Bang on
In the last decade: Olympics 2012, RWC 2015, Euro 2020 (part), plus others that I've no doubt forgotten...
mikeyjh
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Our bid was a shambles. Among other things, 2 of the stadiums, Bristol and Nottingham were never going to happen. Obviously I am bitter about the latter but to reject a stadium (Derby) that had previously held an England international and many U21 internationals with great success in possibly the most accessible city in the country in favour of a pipe dream 15 miles down the road wasn't a great call.
The lack of political nous shown by the bid team was astonishing.
Randy McNob
Now go home and get your f#cking Shinebox
- Jun 13, 2020
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If I recall we wheeled out the big guns, Prince William and Beckham, got us nowhere, whoever led that campaign dropped a clanger
studio150
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Is this some masterplan by Johnson to stop the break up of the United Kingdom by getting the World Cup so that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland get the best chance in a generation of playing in the finals.
Doomed to failure
Doomed to failure
I'm talking about the corrupt (proven over and over again) world of FIFA.
On a positive note, we’ve got a government who can probably work very well with FIFA now. I think they’ll be able to ‘accommodate them’ if you know what I mean.
Brown envelopes and diamond encrusted watches?
I genuinely believe we’ll never get a WC tournament, whether the government be Tory, Labour or coalition. Murderous regimes across the globe, bent football associations. UK politicians, investigative sports journalists (UK, US and ROI) and ex-FA execs were mocked in Europe and beyond when they led the way in exposing FIFA corruption.