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Instead of the rotation, can't host the next 2, 90% sure it's something along those lines.
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Originally posted by mgoblue2290Comment
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Belgium can be a bit dull apart from the beer but when the beer is that good you don't really need to do much else.
I can't understand the antipathy towards joint bids either. All I can assume is that they don't want to give up two automatic qualification spots, but then the Netherlands are going to qualify anyway and Belgium would be a much better footballing addition to the tournament than South Africa or Qatar.Z(u, w) = Z0(w)[1-exp{-b(w)u}]
...and she said "Well I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory."Comment
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I get it but I think the point being made is that while the US bid was better than Australia's (and we won't include Japan or South Korea because they've just had one, greedy buggers) IF there was some pressing reason not to vote for America - such as 1994 being too recent or the fact that there is a lot of antipathy towards the sport in America as well as apathy - then Australia with its infrastructure, facilities, experience and the fact that it is a sport-mad country should have been an obvious choice.
Still, I always thought it was strange that Qatar were included in the first ever FIFA video game back in the 90s even though they were shit and nobody had ever heard of them. Shadowy Qatari cartel pulling the strings at FIFA? You heard it here first folks. :tongue:Z(u, w) = Z0(w)[1-exp{-b(w)u}]
...and she said "Well I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory."Comment
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Apparently the main export of Qatar isn't oil, it's those little plastic things you use to clear frost from the inside of your freezer.
The widespread adoption of frost-free freezers by 2020 could collapse the Qatari economy.
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...and she said "Well I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory."Comment
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I kept harping on about Australia because every single thing you were saying on their bid was 100% crap.Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your ChairComment
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Ok, you carry on believing that Australia was ever a contender.Comment
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So I'm the idiot for thinking it's a bad idea to send the world cup to a country that doesn't allow alcohol, public signs of affection, or homosexuality; not to mention the way they treat women. I don't care what they say they'll change for the World Cup there will be a lot of fucking problems. It's a terrible fucking decision.
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I was more referring to your claims that all the big stadiums in Australia are somehow all owned by the AFL (They only really hold true power over Docklands, they are the MCC's bitch when it comes to the MCG), that somehow AFL were holding it all hostage (They sorted that out on May 9th, it was nothing more then a money grab by the AFL and NRL in the first place) and that somehow the entire Australia Media were trying to scuper the bid.
And lol at Australia never being a chance. It was going to be a two horse race between America and Australia before Qatar started bribing everyone towards the end when their actual bid was getting savaged for the joke it was/still is.
In the FIFA cash report which pretty ranked how well a tournament in each country would do financially, Qatar got a 70% to Australias 68%, this factored in the money from TV rights, so the timezone issue is overblown. Not to mention that Australia would've blown Qatar away when it came to the technical aspects of the bid rankings.
Australia were also the bookies favourite as recently as the 27th, ahead of Qatar, behind America.Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your ChairComment
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Has any black player EVER had ANYTHING nice to say about Russia after leaving their league?A WORLD CUP in racist Russia? All the very best. Strong stuff, but ask Peter Odemwingie how he feels about Russia putting on a party meant to unite fans from every nation.
He is the Nigeria striker who was targeted by racist taunts when he played for Lokomotiv Moscow. When he left for West Brom, Lokomotiv fans unfurled a banner with a banana on it saying: “Thanks West Brom.”
I wonder what Man City striker Jo thinks about a World Cup in Russia? Jo suffered horrendous abuse in Moscow when he played for Lokomotiv’s rivals CSKA. And what of former Zenit boss Dick Advocaat, who said in 2008: “The fans don’t like black players.” The head of Russia’s 2018 bid, Alexei Sorokin, denies there is a problem. This is him explaining the Odemwingie incident: “There is nothing racial in it.. In Russia ‘to get a banana’ means ‘to fail a test somewhere’.”
So how come Spartak Moscow were fined £13,000 in 2007 over a “Monkey go home” banner aimed at Brazilian striker Welliton?
Football Against Racism in Europe is working to change attitudes in Poland and Ukraine ahead of Euro 2012. FARE now have a much bigger job on their hands.
I’d love to say I am optimistic about their chances. Sadly, that is just not the case
Oh and shame on the FA for wasting 15million on a bid that could never have won with Blatter in charge
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I'm no England fan but even I can see that Blatter and Platini at UEFA have got some sort of pathetic anti-England agenda going on. They publicly hammer English clubs and the national team for any sort of indiscretion, however rare, while willfully ignoring exactly the same problems that are endemic in other countries.
If someone made a monkey noise in a match between Droylsden and Blyth Spartans then they'd jump all over it to show how rotten English football is but watch their silence after a Brazil vs Cameroon match at the World Cup turns into a car crash.
In every possible way the English bid was by far the best of everything on show yesterday and should have won by a mile, even though that would have meant I'd have to suffer through eight years of "football's coming home" hell.
As a friend of mine said on Facebook yesterday, "It appears the World Cup voting process is now on a par, in terms of credibility, with that of Eurovision."Z(u, w) = Z0(w)[1-exp{-b(w)u}]
...and she said "Well I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory."Comment
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Yes it's a global competition and should be hosted all over the world, not just europe or countries acceptable to the western world. I like my drink just as much as anybody and strongly support equality and gay rights, I disagree with aspects of their culture just as much as you do but just because their culture is different from ours it doesn't mean it's wrong, they think the exact same about our culture.Comment
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