World Cup Bids

[TRF_Cymro]

Just heard that the English bid cost £480mil.

FOUR
HUNDRED
AND
EIGHTY
MILLION
POUNDS

That's just nucking futs!

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[Saints1]

Corrupt.

 

[ckell]

Just heard that the English bid cost £480mil.

FOUR
HUNDRED
AND
EIGHTY
MILLION
POUNDS

That's just nucking futs!

WOAH, are you serious, how? Advertising?

 

[Seaton]

Last time I heard it was 'only' 14 million pounds
But it was the FA chief or someone that said that, so it's probably wrong

 

[Teh Mite]

Last time I heard it was 'only' 14 million pounds
But it was the FA chief or someone that said that, so it's probably wrong

Ah well, Wayne Rooney won't be getting his Christmas bonus this year then.

 

[Getofmeland]

This is a bloody joke, I am actually quite glad we didn't get the World Cup... I hope the Russians host a decent World Cup...

At least it means Plymouth and Bristol City won't be getting their 40,000 seater stadiums which they will never fill up...

And it won't be another Olympics...

On another note, Wembley is not fit to host a world cup final!

 

[Seaton]

Agreed, I am happy that the Tories won't be able to steal Scottish money to build English stadiums

 

[Teh Mite]

At least I'm not alone in thinking Wembley is a pretty shitty stadium.

Agreed, I am happy that the Tories won't be able to steal Scottish money to build English stadiums

:huh:

The Scottish don't have any money.

 

[Seaton]

At least I'm not alone in thinking Wembley is a pretty shitty stadium.



:huh:

The Scottish don't have any money.

Correction: Steal what little money they haven't stolen/hasn't been made from the North Sea oil yet

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Don't the Scottish steal all of their money off of the English?

 

[Seaton]

Don't the Scottish steal all of their money off of the English?

It seems we lost this ability when the North Sea oil was discovered, it was far more viable to get our wealth from the sea as opposed to getting grants from Westminster

However, I, along wiyj many educated Scottish non-Glasgae folk, totally reject the bs statements by public figures that Scotland leaches off Englandshire (at least nowadays anyway)
These people 90% of the time end up being Tories anyway, with the rest being nutcases (Liberals)

 

[Teh Mite]

Politics and sport - There's a good mix.

 

[munstermuffin]

Lads why can't ye accept Russia and Qatar were the best bids and won it fairly instead of coming up with these conspiracies of corruption.

 

[Teh Mite]

Lads why can't ye accept Russia and Qatar were the best bids and won it fairly instead of coming up with these conspiracies of corruption.

Come on, this is FIFA the discussion is about. Doesn't matter who missed out, them lot make the IRB look whiter then white in comparison.

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Come on, this is FIFA the discussion is about. Doesn't matter who missed out, them lot make the IRB look whiter then white in comparison.

Don't be racist now

 

[munstermuffin]

I'm only joking Bullitt Thing I find funny is the FA knew FIFA was corrupt so like why try plough so much money in to the bid when if each member got £1m each of FA that'd be 22million and alot cheaper with a result

 

[SelimNiai]

This is a bloody joke, I am actually quite glad we didn't get the World Cup... I hope the Russians host a decent World Cup...

At least it means Plymouth and Bristol City won't be getting their 40,000 seater stadiums which they will never fill up...

And it won't be another Olympics...

On another note, Wembley is not fit to host a world cup final!

The City stadium will get built, it wasnt solely reliant on rhe WC bid to go ahead.

 

[Getofmeland]

Well depends whether they can get planning...

 

[Teh Mite]

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rugby/eri...dding-makes-me-proud-to-be-a-rugby-supporter/

Embarrassing sycophancy to Fifa in World Cup bidding makes me proud to be a rugby supporter

By Eric Janssen, Telegraph Sport

When you follow this ridiculous circus that's Fifa's bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups, are you also immensely proud to be a confirmed rugby nut (or supporter of most other sports)?


Dear President: Sepp Blatter has received plenty of attention this week PHOTO: AFP

Yes, the International Rugby Board also has a bidding process, and prime ministers and dignitaries also put their best foot forward during visits and presentations, but there's none of this bowing, scraping and kowtowing we see to Fifa, its president Sepp Blatter and his merry men. Sycophancy is a kind word for behaviour in the past few weeks and today in Zurich.

Frankly, it's terribly embarrassing, and makes me wonder, what's really more important to Fifa – the technical merits of the bids as such, or the number of A-listers they get kissing their backsides?

Just consider a few of the acts in this circus:

* Russia were one of the hot favourites, but have suddenly lost massive ground simply because Vladimir Putin opted to tend to national affairs rather than travel to Zurich to massage Fifa's inflated egos.
* David Cameron felt compelled to apologise when he looked after his heavily pregnant wife instead of meeting Fifa big cheeses during an inspection visit.
*England's 2018 bid might be penalised by Fifa execs because they did not like an independent media exposing alleged fraud within their ranks; you would think Fifa would welcome anyone picking out rotten apples, but no, they huff and puff like aggrieved adolescents.
* Sepp Blatter is constantly addressed like a demigod. "Oh Mr Great and Glorious President, I'm humbled to stand before you…"

For all its faults, the IRB still picks its hosts based on a mix of the bidders' finances, stadia, passion for the game, the good it will provide for players and fans and the way it can contribute to the growth of the game.

Fifa should pull its head in and become real. It's a deep irony that this motley crew runs what is so often called the 'beautiful game'…

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

If you look at where the Rugby World Cups were held, it makes much more sense...


1987: Australia & New Zealand (the initiators)
1991: ENG, SCO, WAL, IRE, FRA (Northern Hemisphere all together)
1995: South Africa (after the ending of Apartheid a very noble decision to let them host it)
1999: Wales (Milennium Stadium and the fact they go back and forth between SH and NH)
2003: Australia (first time to host it independently)
2007: France (see Australia)
2011: New Zealand (same story)
2015: England (nice to see it go back and forth still)
2019: Japan (This is where it gets interesting. A new country in rugby, first time a certain hemispere gets it twice in a row)

If you look at this it is completely natural and people accept it.

Countries on my list to host it after Japan:

2023: Argentina (Maybe a co-host partnership with Uruguay)
2027: Italy or Ireland
2031: South Africa
2035: Romania and Georgia together (this will be nice as a boost to rugby in Eastern Europe)
2039: Pacific Islands (Tonga, Samoa, Fiji)


I might go on too much but would this be a really weird way it could turn out? Compare that to FIFA... Man o man. FIFA has lost it