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.
does anybody really expect England to ever 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 if 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
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.
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.
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.. 🙄
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 FA should have either accepted them and stumped up a bigger bribe package than Russia, or withdrawn the bid citing foul play.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’.
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.
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!!