I like the attitude of going for a different nation each time. Russia and Qatar should be very interesting places for a world cup and have totally different atmospheres. I can imagine Qatar sparing no expense to produce the most amazing stadia the world has ever seen. I can see England preparing the 'can't play in this heat' excuses already though.
Total waste of time and money. Blatter and his crew should be billed for the costs as the established nations were never in it. Speculation abounds who paid who but the move away from FIFA is inevitable in the long run.
Once choices are made on political and favour grounds and not football the seed is sown.
FIFA and UEFA are corrupt. Good enough reasons to bin them. The English FA will not break away but the leading premiership clubs, once they have hijacked the national federations will.
It's a shame the Americans weren't listening in on coversations between Blatter and Putin, we could have got it on WikiLeaks. That would have made today’s vote interesting
England only got one vote in reality as our man voted for us anyway. Just before the bean count Blatter reminded the committee who had been slagging them off this week. Nice one.
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Originally posted by VepsenYou are assuming that these leading Premiership clubs are not themselves as corrupt as a USAnian investment firm and a Russian mafia-tycoon. Which clubs would those be again, Chelsea and Greater London, oops, M#&chester United? Even discounting those two (and their counterparts in other countries *couch*AZ*cough*Vitesse*cough* ), recent history does not suggest that professional football clubs can be trusted to provide a sound, fair financial regime.
FIFA and UEFA are corrupt. Good enough reasons to bin them. The English FA will not break away but the leading premiership clubs, once they have hijacked the national federations will.
Richard
-Removed-Its realpolitiks, thats all, it has nothing to do with who has the best bid, the best stadia, the best infrastructure, what the media reported. England can be pleased that they have kept what once made them honourable, a sense of fair play, but ethics mean nothing in a snake pit.
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieSnigger. That explains the torrent of sour grapes from pundits all over Auntie.
England can be pleased that they have kept what once made them honourable, a sense of fair play,
Let's be honest here, both their and my country's FAs were perfectly happy to go into the bidding process, which knew d@@ned well was corrupt long before they entered it, and perfectly happy to play that game. Had they (or we) been elected, would there have been such complaints about FIFA being corrupt? Certainly not! But it would have been no less corrupt then, it would just have been corrupt in a Shearer-pleasing direction.
They wanted to play a game they knew is fixed; they cannot now complain about the outcome. If they really had a problem with corruption, they would not have been there in the first place.
Richard