England's bid for 2018...

[Bostonshire]

Intresting to hear this morning that just before voting mr blatter decided to give everyone a reminder warning them of the uk media and the alligations they made,

Beginning to sound a bloody constructed vote

[Shoddys Lane]

Just back from town, not a brown envelope to be had anywhere. 

[YellowHills]

Isle of Man for World Cup 2026!

[green hats mate]

What ever way you look at it one outside vote for £15million outlay is a poor return . Without the media exposures the bid would still have failed .  I hope the media turn the heat up on suspected corruption within FIFA.

If we do eventually get a democraticly elected Fifa what will that mean ?  Probably one of the first matters they would address is the allocation of WORLD CUP venues .  Taking into account about 20 teams qaulify on a faily regular basis all these teams can claim to have a right to host the finals .  Maybe a few would not wish to take up the option , against that a few emerging nations and FIFA would see the finals as a opportunity to promote the game in their country . On this basis with the finals being played every four years realistically  any one nation can only expect to host them once in 80 years.

 Many of the FIFA delegates should hang their heads in shame , by the same token the English led by the media should realise that many see our atitude to football as arrogant . Many produce better players than us and could put on a World Cup Final as good or if not better than England .  Maybe its time we got our heads out of the sand.

[Ed Kandi]

Sounds like we're not going to get the World Cup back here for a while.
Maybe we could start an alternative competition for 2022 
Nobody is going to want to go to Qatar and play footie in the heat,  call it the Boston United World Series   :dan

[Bob Lee]

Sounds like we're not going to get the World Cup back here for a while.
Maybe we could start an alternative competition for 2022 
Nobody is going to want to go to Qatar and play footie in the heat,  call it the Boston United World Series   :dan

   Why not?  The USA have the Baseball world series

[Burton Pilgrim]

Russia and Qatar were always going to win these votes - where FIFA are involved, money very definitely makes the world go round.

Will Russia waive their usual visa requirements, or just put the prices up so FIFA can have their cut 

Qatar should be interesting - 10 of the 12 venues are within a 19 mile radius, so virtually all the fans will be within spitting/bottling distance of each other.  Maybe they are expecting the trouble makers to still be in Siberian gulags by the time 2022 comes around!

[dubai camel]

I live next door to Qatar as it were!

Problem with Qatar is many fold, not least there being nothing to do there, especially as the temperature hits 40'C + with 80/90% humidity at times. Can be foggy and 34'C !!!

Tens of thousands of fans with nothing to do ...... alcohol available but in limited places, fan zones in that heat.

And the legacy? Stadiums will be empty in a tiny country with few teams and even less fans...

They are talking of eco stadiums, not a chance with the power needed to light and cool the stadiums their solar powered schemes have little chance unless technology moves on significantly in the next few years.

[Swineshead Pilgrim]

DC, as part of their bid they proposed dismantling the stadiums after the tournament and rebuilding them in developing countries..a nice gesture but will they still remain underused? Probably.

[dubai camel]

As part of their bid, they have said many things, yes moving them and carbon neutral stadiums.

Interestingly there is already over supply in the hotel market there, so not sure how building more is going to the legacy there.