Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty The 2018 World Cup has been awarded to Russia. Rival bids from Spain/Portugal, England, and the Netherlands/Belgium were rejected in favour of bringing football home to the world's largest country. Disappointed crowds would be thronging Piccadilly Square and Trafalgar Square if it were not for snow-related transport …
I'd say there actually isn't anything more British than complaining.
I mean while everyone else was sucking up to FIFA we were slagging them off and airing programs about them being corrupt.
Who else has the balls to do that than us?
You should be able to feel a great sense of pride in that we can tell it as it really is, even in the face of this.
Mines the one with the England flag in the pocket...
If you ignore wrong doing and bury your head in the sand then those doing wrong will happily carry on. If you stand up for fairness or justice then you had better learn there is a cost to that, one that was always very much worth paying, still is, and will ever remain so.
People are gonna be wanting someone to blame for this, and the BBC has painted a massive great bullseye on its chest. Given David Cameron's close association with the failed bid, he's certainly going to be looking for a whipping boy, and - oh look! - there one is.
Now might be a good time to get down the bookies and put something on the licence fee going away during this parliament...
So what's been our excuse for the last 50 years?
How about people don't like us, becuase we're a bunch a smug, self satisfied, country invading, arrogant tossers who keep saying football's coming home, which pisses off every other nation (especially those that soundly beat us year in, year out at football.)
Still we can still bang on about 19fucking66 for another 50 years.
We're shit, people don't like us. Get over it.
So all the last minute begging in front of the FIFA officials for their delectation and delight ........ and amusement, didn't quite cut it then. Good! After watching the Panorama programme on TV and seeing the levels of corruption in the organisation it is shameful that the future King, the current Prime Minister and arguably the countrys best known footballer would parlez with these thieves for a few games of football.
I think I'd probably rather believe Fifa than anything they came up with... From the couple of occasions when I've known something about what they've been "exposing" I suspect that the National Enquirer has superior standards of honest journalism...
Fifa versus Panorama - one of those situations where there aren't actually any good guys...
The stadia aren't built comment is an actual fact (I'm sure you could probably go and take a look if your not convinced, but it's not the safest of countries). Transport is (and always has been) an issue in Russia - though the world cup might help them justify improving this. Roads in Moscow are terrible, for example.
Qatar at least doesn't have the same problems - they'll throw oil money into stadia and transport is no problem in a small, oil rich country. I wouldn't fancy playing 90 minutes+ in temperatures such as those in the Gulf. Alcohol induced trouble won't be a problem though...
Bias from FIFA? No smoke without fire, but either way, it does seem that the Beeb did scupper things somewhat. Perhaps they don't want to spend money on so much coverage (as would be expected by an England bid), so they sabotaged the bid by broadcasting the Panorama when they did. How's that for a paranoid plot.....?
The plus side of losing is that the tax payer won't have to subsidise the event by providing policing, infrastructure support etc. Oh, not to mention, a firm two fingers at the usual London bias that these bids tend to have.
You could have said the same things about World Cup in S.Africa, Brazil 2014 and the 2008 Olympics - all venues are built from scratch, traffic/transport is terrible and safety definitely an issue. Moscow has terrible roads and 24 hour congestions but the subway system is convenient.
This article just reeks of sour grapes from TheReg. The World Cup will be great for us telly watchers just like so many times before.
So at some point during 2018 the roads and shops will be less full of id10t's, since they will be in Russia - that's good news.
I recall visiting Asda and noticing that the shop was emptier, with people smiling at each other and it was an order of magnitude more pleasant, some big football event was happening and only sensible people were out and about.
Why can't this happen every year?
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I am spared the mindless gibbering of has been footballers and arse kissing grovelling politicians, my pocket is saved from the, whoops..you know I said it would cost 2billion, well its now costing 9billion thieving scum. and lets thieve the difference from the lottery funding that you would have had locally. Good day.
nobody takes any notice of them anyway.
it's obvious that fifa are trying to spread the football love around the world and develop it in new areas, hence russia and qatar.
there was so much arrogance about england winning because of the home of football nonsense that i'm glad we didn't get it.....a bit like the eurovision song contest - we have no clout around the world anymore, no-one takes a bit of notice of silly old auntie britain.
we need to get our heads out the sand and face a global reality - and probably move further away from the yanks who also didn't win the 2022 bid.....i wonder why...
England sends out the world's most prominent footballing brand, its prime minister and it's future king.... Putin doesn't bother to tip up, and still they win it.
Russia's spin doctors are hastily making this look like Putin overshadows the UK's finest, even when he doesn't bother turning up.
William's PR people should have advised him to go over to the Russian contingent and land one right up someone's bracket. It's nothing personal, it's just one of those public image things that needs to be seen to be done. He can buy the guy a drink afterwards, off-camera, and say sorry about that, etc.
At least that's my take on the royals.
Last time I recall it was British Royal being slapped on the face by a young Russian lady not the other way around:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1646735.stm
So I would not be sure about that. WIlliam might have gotten more than he would have bargained for with that one.
I would love to see Israel qualifying! It would be amazing to see if they would be allowed to enter the country at all! (considering theyre not allowed to at the moment! Hell your not even supposed to transit through Qatar if you have an Israeli entry stamp in your passport...
Will FIFA get the chance to show that its more powerful then the UN by forcing Qatar to let Israelis in (at least for the duration of the world cup!) - i hope we get to see... If for nothing else but the fireworks! :P
Oh yay, even the Register's joining in what appears to be the new national hobby - blaming the BBC for the failed World Cup bid. It couldn't be because...the infrastructure's not there, and we're still trying to figure out how the fuck we're going to get everything done and paid for before the Olympics, and England fans are notoriously fickle and would likely cease to give a shit/support the event/spend any money on it as soon as England get knocked out (as they inevitably will, let's be honest), could it?
No no, it must've been because of those allegations of corruption recently. Because it's not like anyone else has ever suggested FIFA were a corrupt bunch of thieving, self-serving shitehawks, is it?
I'm not really a football fan, but lets have a look....
"Oh yay, even the Register's joining in what appears to be the new national hobby - blaming the BBC for the failed World Cup bid."
I thought John Leyden said..
"Rumours from Zurich suggest voters punished England for its media's "hostile" coverage of allegations of corruption"
(that's rumours, from elsewhere) and
"The Beeb's decision to air an edition of Panorama on Monday .. may have been particularly untimely."
'may' - good word that, ask any lawyer. Regardless of the whinging from elsewhere, i'm not convinced John said the bid failed because of the Beeb - no. Your reading and opinion, obviously, differs - fair enough. Right, where were we ?...
"It couldn't be because...the infrastructure's not there,"
No - or at least highly unlikely given the comments from FIFA
"and we're still trying to figure out how the fuck we're going to get everything done and paid for before the Olympics,"
..probably not, no..
"and England fans are notoriously fickle and would likely cease to give a shit/support the event/spend any money on it as soon as England get knocked out (as they inevitably will, let's be honest), could it?"
No. We would have, they wouldn't.
"No no, it must've been because of those allegations of corruption recently. "
No (this is getting fun!)
"Because it's not like anyone else has ever suggested FIFA were a corrupt bunch of thieving, self-serving shitehawks, is it?"
No indeed - absolutely right on that last one.
A losing bid that cost us £13M
A desert country that has temperatures in excess of 40 Cent and no alcohol
A Russian state which is run by Batman and Robin aided by a gang of mafiaosa ...
Corrupt FIFA picked the most corrupt countries to do buisness with.
(P.S Qatar is not Saudi Arabia, they allow Israeli citizens in)
They'd need to get fit, concentrate on the game, learn some football skills (not the big mouth shag and run to the hairdresser skills they have now) and get some enthusiasm...
I still can't get over the 'too tired' comments at the last fiasco.
Errrm... Isn't it deadly hot in the Middle East in June..? I take it they will have to build indoor air-conditioned stadia then...
It's also not a very big place, so how many stadia would there be..?
To be honest, I don't care where the World Cup takes place, but it should at least be somewhere amenable...
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