[Closed] Russia to host world cup

'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.

😀

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.

Think we'll make a big enough mess of the Olympics, no need to embarrass ourselves any further by hosting the world cup

Go away football or Olympics ... go far far away. Nobody wants you here. You are way passed your sell by date. Go to some 3rd world nations to help them boost their economy but not here. Hassle them rather than trying to artificially boost the feel good factor here. We do not want you.

You vile piece of non-entity.

I step you on FIFA/Olympics big events maggots.

😈

What chance Israel qualifying and doing well at the 2022 World Cup Finals 😕

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.

Football hooliganism has absolutely nothing to do with how the votes went. Russia has horrendous problems with football hooliganism, and as for racism in football over there..... Quite possibly the worst in the world. Crap, outdated stadiums, crap road network. Vast distances between venues. Sounds like an ideal location. I wonder why they got it?

I'm not bothered that we didn't get it. I don't want that corrupt organisation to ever stage anything at all in England. The ConDems would have used it as a trumpet blowing tool aswell.

 

Just shows FIFA is all about revenue generation and backhanders and nothing to do with sport any more.

Love all the football haters on here! Bell ends, go post on something you actually care about!!

I'm pretty sure there are far more people who actually "play" football than go out into the countryside riding "silly" bikes

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this a cycling forum?

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.

Grow up.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this a cycling forum?

It's a chat forum. HTH

It's a chat forum

On a more positive note, Qatar isn't a 'dry' country. A lot of the hotels in Doha sell alcohol, but you'll need a second mortgage if you want more than one night in the bar!

They are all just waste of money ... go away!

Football nation? My arse! Shite! WTF!

FIFA are are high on their own fart ... so are many deluded people that think football is the only thing in life.

On a more positive note, Qatar isn't a 'dry' country. A lot of the hotels in Doha sell alcohol, but you'll need a second mortgage if you want more than one night in the bar!

So at least the players will be able to get royally wasted even if the fans can't afford it.

Let me see if I've understood this properly.

On Monday, Panorama reports that FIFA officials have been taking bribes.

Today, Wikileaks brands Russia a "mafia state" where corruption is rife.

And today, Russia is awarded the next WC by FIFA.

on a 'cycling' web site.

Very true. But this forum is called 'Chat' which means as far as I'm aware, you can chat about pretty much anything. Plenty guff sprouted about other sports with lots of money involved too, but if it's football all the usual pathetic whiners start moaning...

That FIFA old man president is just full of himself ...

Everybody knows all 3rd world nations are highly corrupted so you can buy them off for a vote. Yes, you maggots ... vile corrupted piece of dirt.

Mafia state? Where? You don't say ... how can that be? No way. No such thing. You must be dreaming.

on a 'cycling' web site.

I would counter, but a quick glance at the topics you started makes my argument unnecessary.

but if it's football all the usual pathetic whiners start moaning...

Well said.

Is there are sh!ttier organisation out there than FIFA?

I'm no football fan but what a depressing state of affairs.

Get a sense of humour ffs.

Oh, sorry, I forgot, it's a thread on football. Long faces and seriousness all round please...

"It's only a game" 🙄

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say something funny then.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this a cycling forum?

It's a chat forum. HTH /

Very true. But this forum is called 'Chat' which means as far as I'm aware, you can chat about pretty much anything. Plenty guff sprouted about other sports with lots of money involved too, but if it's football all the usual pathetic whiners start moaning...

I don't object to the thread, i was just trying to make the point that football fans shouldn't get too butthurt if everyone who posts on it isn't crying a river we didn't get the world cup.

 

i realise now why we lost

its because of faecal freak lineker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/dec/01/gary-lineker-1990-dump

what cuddly Ken said: [url] http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/leedsunited/Leeds-United-Bates-urges-breakaway.6649353.jp [/url]

he might not be a very nice man, but he's [i]our[/i] not very nice man 😉

MOT