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England to host the football World cup in 2018, or atleast making a bid, isn’t this just another white elephant project.
@john1_2 wrote:
England to host the football World cup in 2018, or atleast making a bid, isn’t this just another white elephant project.
Its already virtually guaranteed to be hosted in our glorious country in 2018.
i’ll only be 37… still time to get my first england cap
makes sense for it to be here, small country too, make it much easier for teams to travell from a – b… just need to look at euro 96 as an example
@geoff wrote:
Why is it a white elephant?
How much do you actually know about football?
We have the best football stadia in the world. We, by then, won’t have had the World Cup at the home of football for 52 years.
Lets name but a few stadiums right at this moment that can host World Cup football;
The two Manchester stadiums
Arsenal
Sunderland
Reading
Southampton
Bolton
Chelsea
Newcastle
Middlesborough
Derby County
Twickenham (if accepted)and there are many more…
Stadiums in the pipeline;
Wembley
Olympic Stadium
LiverpoolLets also remember that unlike the Olympics, this is mainly funded by the host FA, UEFA and FIFA.
Give us your reasons for it being a white elephant instead of making crass statements.
Germany are already backing us incidentally.
wot he sed
There is only 6 stadia in this country which can be used for the WC at the moment, including wembley.
Remember the last bid how many millions did it cost? and lose. remind me. How many millions will this one cost?
The FA could organise a f****** thing, they are an organisation chaos. Thats not the point tho. The Fa would’nt even run the bid they are looking at it being run by a independent organisation, would the FA fund this? NO
Sapin are aparently going to bid against us, they have equally as good stadia and travel is no trouble there either. (Better climate as well)
A billion pound black hole, with the Olympics making that worse in 2012 no doubt (i think here i should say i am in favour of the Olympics comming to London, British athletics is is chaos and needs sorting the Olympics should and traditionally does improve talent comming through).
What absolute tosh… thanks for confirming your zero knowledge! Sorry that has given me plenty to laugh over.
“The government’s study considered England’s stadiums – only six of which are big enough at present ” :lol: – please read and get knowledge yourself before you make rediculous comments – BBC is a good starting point.
Funded largely by the FA… how much revenue would the World Cup produce?
Did we get the world cup wasn’t it a complete disaster, did we lose money yes we did. end of.
Errr yes they would.
what did senior polotical and sporting figures reccommend? No gaurentee but highily likley.
So make your mind up… black hole or in favour? Are you complaining yet wanting it? Again the revenue spin offs will outweigh the initial costs and provide much needed inner city employment AND future leisure facilities, not to mention new talent being realised with such a prestigious event. Tourism will go through the roof. Please stop talking out of your butt.
Yes the Olympics is not finaically a good idea (i think wee all know thakt) but it but i never said i was against them and dispite the black hole that will be created British athletics will get better.
Plz im beggin you to look at things that ahve been released in the media and come back when you have a clue.
[/quote]No they do not have the same quality of stadia as England
Quick comaprision of stadia
1. Barcelona – 98,000
2. Real Madrid – 80,000
3. Valencia – 55,000
4. Athletico Madrid – 54,000
5. Deportivo – 45,000
6. Sevilla – 45,0001. Wembley – 90,000
2. Man utd – 75,000
3. Arsenal – 60,000
4. Man city 48,000
5. Liverpool 45,000
6. Chelsea 42,000No big differences
Six stadiums in England already meet all of FIFA’s requirements in terms of seating, capacity and pitch size, while five others meet all the requirements except pitch size, the report said.”
So are you sayin im correct then?
@john1_2 wrote:
No they do not have the same quality of stadia as England
Quick comaprision of stadia
1. Barcelona – 98,000
2. Real Madrid – 80,000
3. Valencia – 55,000
4. Athletico Madrid – 54,000
5. Deportivo – 45,000
6. Sevilla – 45,0001. Wembley – 90,000
2. Man utd – 75,000
3. Arsenal – 60,000
4. Man city 48,000
5. Liverpool 45,000
6. Chelsea 42,000No big differences
Six stadiums in England already meet all of FIFA’s requirements in terms of seating, capacity and pitch size, while five others meet all the requirements except pitch size, the report said.”
So are you sayin im correct then?
Um, if you are going to compare sizes of stadiums, then please get them right. Barcalona’s stadium can hold 120.000, not 90.000. Barcalona’s stadium is the biggest stadium in the world, and Real Madrid, I think, have a bigger stadium than Manchester United’s. So between England and Spain, there isn’t much in it.
ps: BTW, Man United’s stadium capacity is 79.000, not 75.000
buxton FC can hold 800
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