Fantastic, the place furthest away on the timeline, so we don't have to watch it.
C
'kin joke.
I guess they must have made the highest bid.
I'd videoe'd the announcement to watch later and you've spolied it 🙁
Didn't really warrant a new thread tho did it?
Well I blame the bbc........... 8)
Ahahahaha, best news i've had all day.
Now if only we'd put all the money the bid cost towards a sport the UK is actually good at, like, i dunno, cycling....?
Victory for Big Oil and the Mafiaski then?
And Qatar for 2022, so the oil money really has spoken.
Blatter can kiss goodbye to his free tickets for the Olympics.
Excellent. Train home won't be cluttered up with football fans causing pointless mayhem, then.
Excellent. Train home won't be cluttered up with football fans causing pointless mayhem, then
...or, god forbid, enjoying themselves.
Never mind, we've all got the Royal Wedding to look forward to next year. 😉
Saw a somewhat moving plea from a rapidly fading Bobby Charlton last night who asked why England had not hosted it now for so long and should host it again. Probably not now in his lifetime.
quelle surprise 👿
does anybody really expect England to [i]ever[/i] host it again? I don't
I mean, Qatar? That surely must be one of the hottest places on the planet, and they want to host matches that can last over 2 hours.
I bet [i]if[/i] England qualify for that one, they'll end up playing at midday.
Sod 'em all, England should withdraw from FIFA and disband the national team, that'll teach 'em
Never mind, we've all got the Royal Wedding to look forward to next year
AAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!....Runs screaming from the room..I had forgotten about that..
sweet
Qatar will be great for the post match pint.
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Olympics was a far better grab.
Sod 'em all, England should withdraw from FIFA and disband the national team, that'll teach 'em
Whilst this should and will not happen just cos we didn't get the tournament.
If the major footballing nations in both footballing and economic terms, did sack off fifa then surely the others would follow. Realistically who would you need Gb nations, plus spain, italy, france, germany, holland, brazil, argentina, portugal.
i must have missed something. why should England have hosted the world cup in preference to any other country?
as for only johnny foreigners offering bribes, british aerospace anyone?
England committed bid suicide through the Media. The time to expose the corruption in FIFA would have been best done after the Announcement of the world cup venues!!
Also doesnt help when the night before the vote Mindless brummies decide to have a riot after the mickey mouse cup game. I'm sure all the other bidding states made sure the Fifa delegates saw that several times.
as i said before we sent the wrong royal wills is useless, his uncle andy knows all about kickbacks and bribes
i wasnt that bothered about england winning it the team would only have been a dismal failure anyway
fwiw i think qatar will be excellent their bid was very impressive and should really help middle east relations
Good points made above - not the most thoughful thread title and did it really need a new thread given the previous one was still on the front page.
Ho hum.
Irina Kalentieva
In a statement from shadow Secretary of State for Sport Ivan Lewis, the Labour Party called for an independent root and branch inquiry into the failed bid.
"Despite the impressive efforts of Team England, supporters will be bitterly disappointed at England's failure to land the 2018 World Cup," said Lewis. "This follows on from the England team's poor performance in South Africa.
"Serious questions have to be answered as to how we can learn lessons from these significant setbacks to build a better future.
"The Coalition and the football authorities should now set up an independent root and branch inquiry into all aspects of how our national game is run."
riiiight.
It was so obviously the coalition governments fault this one. This is exactly the kind of arena that partisan politics is so important.. 🙄
[i]It was so obviously the coalition governments fault this one. This is exactly the kind of arena that partisan politics is so important.. [/i]
still 15 million well spent i think youll agree
not particularly well spent at all. Clearly not nearly enough of that £15m went to the right people at FIFA!
The BBC did a good job of highlighting the rules of the game. FA should have either accepted them and stumped up a bigger bribe package than Russia, or withdrawn the bid citing foul play.
If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do is go back and un-invent football.
Pointless stupid game for pointless stupid voyeurs (sorry, 'spectators', see also 'fambois') to watch overpaid thugs kick a bouncy round thing about interminably, whilst simultaneously telling the other side of the city how much they hate them in amusing simple minded music-hall 'sing-alongs', with a side order of mindless gang hooliganism for the more moronic of the 'supporters'.
Watching things is not a sport.
congrats to russia....
england didn't get past round one... <shakes head>
so much for the 8/13 odds reported on tv earlier today, they could not have been more wrong - does that mean spain/portugal beat england in the first round? if so fifa stinks...
ps i'd of preferred going to spain/portugal to watch the world cup than anfield tbh
Funny how there's no money left in the public coffers to pay for a lot of things that actually have a point, but there is to pay for hosting an international sporting tournament.
I'd be for cancelling the Olympics too, if we weren't already so committed to that.
Andy
DOI Not English.
Guy I work with summed it up quite well.
'It's just like when we actually play in the world cup, we hype ourselves up, everyone believes it and then we get knocked out early doors...'
Personally I'd have like England to get it, would have been good.
Love all the football haters on here! Bell ends, go post on something you actually care about!!
Love all the football haters on here! Bell ends, go post on something you actually care about!!
russia? fair enough. you get but you pay for but qatar!!?
so, aside from its reputation as a middle eastern football powerhouse -
- it's tiny
- they'll need to build all the stadiums
- no alcohol
- i'm presuming a dim view of, for example, brazilian female fans
oh yes, and if any of the players are gay, or the fans, they'll probably kill them. or something suitably sharialike.
How many of our "fans" are gonna get mugged/turned over in Russia and generally locked up in Qatar?? Gonna require some serious money to watch out there!!
I reckon the Qataris will force the thugs to behave pretty quickly!
I've a feeling the "thugs" will only have the one chance!! 😯
If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do is go back and un-invent football.
Killing Hitler not a priority then?
If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do is go back and un-invent football.
Killing Hitler not a priority then?
Naa, maybe second on the list, but only after I'd made sure that nothing like that hateful game (*spit* football *spit) would ever come out of human civilisation, EVER.
🙂
National sport indeed. National excuse to sit about and point at the telly for 90 minutes, then talk to your mates for at least another week about same 90 minutes of a bouncy round thing getting tapped about by twits.
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first round voting results were:
England 2
Netherlands/Belgium 4
Spain/Portugal 7
Russia 9
prior to this England had been rated as having the best commercial and best technical bid - so what was the point when it comes down to some random fifa officials to vote?
7hz you seem really tense and full of aggression and anxiety. have you considered some way of being able to vent that, maybe for an hour or a half or so, once a week maybe ?
seems to work for a lot of people.
7hz - I'm pretty sure there are far more people who actually "play" football than go out into the countryside riding "silly" bikes - it's a case as each to their own. Far more people actually talk about football too and most people see cyclists as dorks, especially those in their budgie smugglers.
