Fleet street should fill a plane full of money and fly over to geneva to open up that slimey can of worms that is FIFA! Its a disgrace!

 

It's unhealthy for someone to be in the job as long as Sepp Blatter. He should be given the push.

 

FIFA is based in Zurich and they should move it to somewhere with a more transparent culture.

heard a rumour in Qatar that the rules will be handball in the box = removal of hand

Make that 1 vote, the other vote we usvoting for ourselves

 

I'm astounded

Time well spent by the Prime Minister....

Another Con/LibDem coalition fuckup.

1)Israel athletes have competed there before. That's that risk whereever it is held.

 

2) Hassan Abdulla al Thawadi, chief executive of the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid, said the Muslim state would also permit alcohol consumption during the world?s most watched sporting event. Specific fan-zones will be set up during the event, they will provide alcohol for sale.

 

Fair enough.

Another Con/LibDem coalition fuckup.

 

Bollocks

 

 

 

The blame lies solely with the ticket office

The Qatar bid is transparantly comical, and the bribery was quite open in the bid book. After the tournament, the stadiums will be dismantled and sent to the 3rd world (read, countries of the fifa executive members) to provide a legacy, as not even arabs could pretend Qatar needs 12 large stadia for 1.6m people.

 

Incidentally, there are 7 different 'cities' having stadia in Qatar.

 

The 3rd largest city in Qatar has... 30,000 people. I hope each location has a well.

Blatter is happy to drone on about a football 'legacy' but seems quite content to allow the various FA's to waste a small fortune competing to stage the tournament. Money that could have been spent on grass roots football.

Fair enough.

 

 

I don't agree with it like.

 

Zidane and De Boer can go and get fucked aswell, did they not earn enough money in their careers?

Surely no one is surprised? An absolute stich up months ago.

 

Normally wouldnt given our press the time of day, but right behind them on this one. If the "no" votes for us were because of FIFA fears over what our press might do if we had been awarded 2018, then I feel they are sadly mistaken - I hope its nothing in comparison to the scrutiny they will now be put under to expose the truths behing their shady operation and publically nail as many of the hypocrites as possible.

 

We'll never get the World Cup in my lifetime now, so nothing to lose!

115 degrees is the average daytime temperature over there in June. Apparently they're planning to air condition the stadium pitches as it's the only way they'll be able to stage matches during the day.

 

 

More like 106 and 81 at night its would seem

 

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/QAXX0002

 

Nice

 

For those of us too young to understand those numbers, that translates to 46C, 41C and 27C

Surely no one is surprised? An absolute stich up months ago.

 

Normally wouldnt given our press the time of day, but right behind them on this one. If the "no" votes for us were because of FIFA fears over what our press might do if we had been awarded 2018, then I feel they are sadly mistaken - I hope its nothing in comparison to the scrutiny they will now be put under to expose the truths behing their shady operation and publically nail as many of the hypocrites as possible.

 

We'll never get the World Cup in my lifetime now, so nothing to lose!

 

could nt agree more.

 

the criticism seems to be that our press have published a story about corruption, everyone agrees fifa is bent as fuck.

 

are people really saying that despite what we think about fifa we should lick their arses, bend over and grab our ankles and let them do whatever they want to us ?

 

i would love the wc to be in this country but if the price we would have to pay is lying down and letting sepp blatter rape us then i happy to say fuck em.

 

if we had won the vote them the only conclusion would be that we had lined more pockets than the other bidders to bo honest that is not what i would want.

 

watch nick clegg on telly so desperate to be in power he is selling out on policies and beliefs has had all his life, sometimes the price is too high for the prize.

Look

 

By 2030 the World Cup won' exist in its current format.

 

I say it'll be an Elite competition where the top 24 teams from around the world compete. The rankings are based purely on which teams will pull in the most viewers - the top 20 qualifying automatically with 4 wild cards. FIFA can fuck right off.

 

If I was Beckham today, I'd have stormed the stage and shoved that trophy up Blatters arse then booted him into the crowd.

 

If I'm honest, I'm just not that arsed. It'll be on my telly regardless.

It's a shame! The oil mafia won both bids! Fick fufa!

The big football nations should tell FIFA that they're no longer prepared to bid to stage the tournament under the present system, which seems to involve creeping to Blatter and his cronies and has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the actual bid. Once FIFA have taken their circus to China, Australia and back to the States, they're going to be hard pushed to find anyone else with the resources and/or the will to stage the tournament.

It's a shame! The oil mafia won both bids! Fick fufa!

 

Natural Gas actually.

 

Russia are number 1 in the world, Qatar number 2.

 

Number 3? Iran for 2026, place your bets now.

The big football nations should tell FIFA that they're no longer prepared to bid to stage the tournament under the present system, which seems to involve creeping to Blatter and his cronies and has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the actual bid. Once FIFA have taken their circus to China, Australia and back to the States, they're going to be hard pushed to find anyone else with the resources and/or the will to stage the tournament.

 

No, people will keep queueing up to offer bribes and fawn.

The Qatar bid is transparantly comical, and the bribery was quite open in the bid book. After the tournament, the stadiums will be dismantled and sent to the 3rd world (read, countries of the fifa executive members) to provide a legacy, as not even arabs could pretend Qatar needs 12 large stadia for 1.6m people.

 

Incidentally, there are 7 different 'cities' having stadia in Qatar.

 

The 3rd largest city in Qatar has... 30,000 people. I hope each location has a well.

 

Scotland stand to gain then..

FIFA presidential elections are next year apparently. No wonder Blatter wanted the next two World Cups sorted out this year.

I'm looking forward to seeing Qatar build 50,000 seat stadiums, then taking them apart bolt by bolt and shipping them off to Timbuktu and the like.

 

What a load of pie in the sky

What the fuck are third world countries going to do with super-stadiums? Probably use them to stage executions and what not.

 

If Sepp Blatter is serious about legacy, he needs to act on the spiralling inflation in professional football's pinnacle.

 

Not for profit my arse!

Well no-one will go to fucking Russia - anyone risks a kicking, and if yer face aint whiter than white you risk yer life. But we should have seen the stitch-up earlier and pulled out; money down the shitter, and Blatter is doing the flushing.

Some turds float, and that fucker is unsinkable.

 

Number 3? Iran for 2026, place your bets now.

 

If it's still on the map then. According to the Wikileaks leaks various Arab states were giving it the "go on, get him" to the Yanks.