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| #Post#: 378-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Englands World cup bid | |
| By: macappin Date: December 3, 2010, 3:18 pm | |
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| I was hoping someone else would start a thread on this but here | |
| I go. If Englands bid was a success, here was the plan. Wether | |
| Scotland would have a team capable of winning it or not ;D My | |
| boy would have been 20, the World Cups just down the road and we | |
| can go down and hopefully go to watch a few games, join in the | |
| atmosphere, have a beer and just have a good time. It would have | |
| been great. | |
| Instead they give it to the Russians ??? I watched the Panorama | |
| programme on TV and read about the guys taking bungs for votes | |
| so to to me, the people running the game threw thier toys out | |
| the pram and gave it to Russia just cause they got caught out | |
| lining thier own pockets. It`s pathetic behaviour and I hope | |
| this is a catalist to get rid of these people. | |
| #Post#: 383-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Englands World cup bid | |
| By: GamerDad Date: December 3, 2010, 3:46 pm | |
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| The whole thing absolutely stinks. We, be Fifas own admission, | |
| could host the world cup tomorrow. We have the infrastructure, | |
| stadium and passion for a brilliant world cup. We also get | |
| larger crowds than Russia (average 13000 for a top game) and so | |
| would get more money for Fifa. We had the best presentation and | |
| still only 2 votes. Now if it was because its never been held in | |
| east europe, fine, I can live with that but could have at least | |
| told us not to bother and waste 15 mill. The Russian pres didnt | |
| even turn up wtf. It seems to me a bit of eurovision song | |
| contest coming out here. No one likes us but.......well we do | |
| care now | |
| #Post#: 385-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Englands World cup bid | |
| By: ECHO Date: December 3, 2010, 4:05 pm | |
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| England will more than likely never get the world cup because | |
| we're seen the world over as a nation of football hooligans. | |
| Whether that title is deserved is a different matter. TBH the | |
| state of the economy and the number of uneplomyed at the moment, | |
| I think it's despicable that we're pissing the money away on | |
| this and the olympics. It should be a case of, "sorry love to do | |
| it but we're a bit skint at the mo" | |
| #Post#: 392-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Englands World cup bid | |
| By: BazTardo-UK Date: December 4, 2010, 4:32 am | |
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| We lost this thanks to our stupid media not keeping their mouths | |
| shut. Strangely, the people saying that's not the reason, are | |
| the media. | |
| Imagine if you want me to vote for you to win Xfactor, but the | |
| day before your partner broadcasts I'm a cheat and have been | |
| given a brown envelope by one of the other contestants to help | |
| them win, I'm going to purposely not vote for you any more. This | |
| is technically what our media did for us. | |
| Some FIFA officials have since pretty much admitted to this as | |
| well. | |
| It's a shame because I would have loved to have won it, then ban | |
| all newspaper and BBC journalists attending the games. | |
| #Post#: 426-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Englands World cup bid | |
| By: ghostofman Date: December 4, 2010, 4:42 pm | |
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| [quote author=BazTardo-UK link=topic=72.msg392#msg392 | |
| date=1291458720] | |
| We lost this thanks to our stupid media not keeping their mouths | |
| shut. Strangely, the people saying that's not the reason, are | |
| the media. [/quote] | |
| I think you're spot on with this one Baz. It was my first | |
| reaction when I heard this news too. For some perverse reason | |
| the media in this country seems hell bent on destroying or | |
| corrupting anything that seems to bear any resemblance to 'good' | |
| news. It's a culture now. Scandal sells news. We all know FIFA | |
| are as bent as a fiddlers elbow, the whole organisation has been | |
| for years now. It's old news, but the media still keeps peddling | |
| this shit as an excuse to deflect any blame they need to take | |
| themselves. The World Cup would have been an amazing experience | |
| for this country, it could have brought so many people together, | |
| be it Irish, English, Scot or Welsh under the banner of | |
| football. It's a massive missed opportunity, but sadly, many | |
| people that read the tabloids will miss the point entirely. A | |
| real shame. | |
| #Post#: 428-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Englands World cup bid | |
| By: BazTardo-UK Date: December 4, 2010, 4:55 pm | |
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| I think that anything that involves a panel of so called judges, | |
| can be easily bribed with brown envelopes. Maybe not so obvious | |
| as a bag of cash, but some other incentive to the voter. | |
| FIFA themselves know, just like everyone else does, that England | |
| is ready to host a World Cup tomorrow. We have everything in | |
| place already, and we would have improved on it over the next 8 | |
| years, ready to put on an amazing show. The money this would | |
| have generated for our country is amazing. | |
| Not sure what our media need to shut the f@�k up. It just seems | |
| that in modern day that bad news is the only news worth talking | |
| about. Strange really. | |
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