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Katalinic

Katalinic

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Lol - Qatar. The Isle of Wight should have put in a bid - at the end they could have ripped down the stadia and transported it to a third world state (Portsmouth).

angelman

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To be honest, I don't really want it here (from a footballing perspective). I always think of the WC as something that happens overseas.

 

Anyway, why are these faceless chins running our game?

saint_bert

saint_bert

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Can't we pull out of this corrupt organisation? We're THE 'FA' for Christ sake, it's OUR game! More back handers then you can poke a stick at in this bidding process

 

Not in Fifa means not in UEFA. Not in UEFA means no CL. Lovely idea, but it wont happen.

Saint_Jonny

Saint_Jonny

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Well done Fifa, lets hold the 2018 world cup in a country that doesn't welcome foreign visitors (millions of football fans) that does not have the infrastructure to hold such an event, and only has 2 suitable stadiums. Brilliant. And 2022? To Qatar, a country that in the summer the temp reaches 45C, perfect weather for a football match, i can see loads of people turning out for that. What a bunch of ****tards.

GenevaSaint

GenevaSaint

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Wow so they get BOTH the winter Olympics (2016) and the World Cup (2018).

And now Qatar get the 2022, WTF Qatar?!?!

 

Wasn't that bothered about 2022 but glad the yanks never got it. They had '94. Preference would've been Australia.

GenevaSaint

GenevaSaint

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1549: England bid ambassador and BBC presenter Gary Lineker has confirmed that England were knocked out in the first round of voting. They came fourth out of four. I'm stunned.

 

****ing LAST! Now I know we're banging on about how great we are, but LAST!"

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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1549: England bid ambassador and BBC presenter Gary Lineker has confirmed that England were knocked out in the first round of voting. They came fourth out of four. I'm stunned.

 

****ing LAST! Now I know we're banging on about how great we are, but LAST!"

Because fifa despise us. Such a bunch of ******s.

Thorpe-le-Saint

Thorpe-le-Saint

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1549: England bid ambassador and BBC presenter Gary Lineker has confirmed that England were knocked out in the first round of voting. They came fourth out of four. I'm stunned.

 

****ing LAST! Now I know we're banging on about how great we are, but LAST!"

 

I don't know why we bother if I'm honest. We were never really in with a shout from day one. It was obvious that Blatter was setting us up for defeat with his whole arse kissing routine today.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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what an utter joke....

FIFA is an utter joke...

 

Qatar ffs

 

what on earth do we have to do to get it...

 

NOW I hope our press go to town on FIFA

 

We would host the best world cup. Simple as that. Crazy.

GenevaSaint

GenevaSaint

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I don't know why we bother if I'm honest. We were never really in with a shout from day one. It was obvious that Blatter was setting us up for defeat with his whole arse kissing routine today.

 

I bet Blair could've pulled it out of the bag, fcking Cameron ;-)

 

I agree Thorpe, lets just forget it until Blatter is pushing up the daisies and the corruption that is evidently there has gone (probably never).

Thedelldays

Thedelldays

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Yep. It's our game. F*ck off FIFA.

fair play to russia..they had a decent bid (although risky)....but to come 4th....that is an insult

and then QATAR..?

 

I hate FIFA and I dread to think the reaction they get when one of them come over as a VIP to an England game

Thedelldays

Thedelldays

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Isn't Qatar about 100 million degrees (ish) in the summer months ??

there will be deaths..

 

been out in that area a few times in july....it is unbearable to walk around at lunch time due to the heat

anothersaintinsouthsea

anothersaintinsouthsea

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So Mr Blatter what first attracted you to oil rich Qatar?

 

To be honest we were always up against it with Russia as they are a massive country who had never held it before. But Qatar?! FFS! Who's for a bit heatstroke?

 

Don't like to be defeatist but I really can't see the point in bidding for another World Cup. We had the best technical bid (as assessed by FIFA) and FIFA's consultants said that our bid would be the most commercially successful. The fact we get knocked out in the first round suggests we'll never win. And before anyone says that we should pursue the brown envelope option - don't bother, our media would jump all over that. Unfortunately other national media either don't care or are to repressed to uncover their dodgy dealing.

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trousers

trousers

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Why are people surprised we came last?

 

There were 'experts' saying beforehand that we would either come first or last. Something to do with the voting system....i.e. to win it we'd most likely scrape through the first round but then pick up most 2nd and 3rd votes. We obviously failed to do the first round scraping, that is all.

 

Now England supporters know what it feels like to be David Milliband..... ;-)

K,Billy's supersound

K,Billy's supersound

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from a selfish point of view i'm glad england didnt win as i just cant stand the thought of the super MK Dons cashing in.

cant y i'm atall suprised that both russia and qatar both successfully bought i mean won the rights to hold the world cup. time for the english fa split away from fifa and run our own game away from there interfering.

Super_Uwe

Super_Uwe

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It's clear that Sepp Blatter wants the World Cup to make an impact in new places, so on that basis alone I don't think we could ever have won.

 

People keep banging on about it being the best technical bid, but if the main criteria was to give the World Cup to somewhere that needs developing, then the technical quality of the bid mattered very little.

 

We keep telling ourselves that people all over the world love English football; well, maybe other countries like our clubs and players, but they certainly don't like our constant droning on about being the home of football. Sadly that is all we have left to cling to these days!

Thedelldays

Thedelldays

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We keep telling ourselves that people all over the world love English football; well, maybe other countries like our clubs and players, but they certainly don't like our constant droning on about being the home of football. Sadly that is all we have left to cling to these days!

sorry..but that has hardly been mentioned this time round...

saintscottofthenortham

saintscottofthenortham

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I also blame the British press. They are always hellbent on releasing scandal to derail any major sporting events.

 

I would have blamed our press, but the fact that it went to Russia & Qatar says to me that what our press done didn't make a blind bit of difference. If we had 0% Crowd Trouble, Underground stations with platform at each stand of every f*****g world class stadium we f*****g posses, if we had runways lining the sides of the pitches so the corrupt f*****g bigwigs at FIFA could dally in with there private jets and waddle up to there seats whilst being handed a glass of f*****g Pimms within seconds of landing, if we had the perfect weather, the most beautiful cities, 0% crime throughout the entire f*****g nation... it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. We are England.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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I would have blamed our press, but the fact that it went to Russia & Qatar says to me that what our press done didn't make a blind bit of difference. If we had 0% Crowd Trouble, Underground stations with platform at each stand of every f*****g world class stadium we f*****g posses, if we had runways lining the sides of the pitches so the corrupt f*****g bigwigs at FIFA could dally in with there private jets and waddle up to there seats whilst being handed a glass of f*****g Pimms within seconds of landing, if we had the perfect weather, the most beautiful cities, 0% crime throughout the entire f*****g nation... it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. We are England.

 

Yep.

SO16_Saint

SO16_Saint

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It's clear that Sepp Blatter wants the World Cup to make an impact in new places, so on that basis alone I don't think we could ever have won.

 

People keep banging on about it being the best technical bid, but if the main criteria was to give the World Cup to somewhere that needs developing, then the technical quality of the bid mattered very little.

 

We keep telling ourselves that people all over the world love English football; well, maybe other countries like our clubs and players, but they certainly don't like our constant droning on about being the home of football. Sadly that is all we have left to cling to these days!

 

Well if FIFA want it to go to new places all the Time, why let us and te others bid, and waste £000s in the process FFS

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