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[upsettingshorts]

Any Brits from "across the pond" want to join me in drowning my disappointment in copious amounts of alcohol?

Modifié par Upsettingshorts, 02 décembre 2010 - 04:05 .

[JRCHOharry]

Upsettingshorts wrote...

Any Brits from across the pond want to join me in drowning my disappointment in copious amounts of alcohol?

Pour me a pint.

No, pour me two pints.

[Loerwyn]

Not really. I have no interest in football and the less of those drunken hooligans roaming the Queen's streets the better

[Druss99]

Anyone want to join me in watching Sky Sports News and laughing at the English? The attempts to drum up some outrage are brilliant. Congrats to Russia though.

[upsettingshorts]

Druss99 wrote...

Anyone want to join me in watching Sky Sports News and laughing at the English? The attempts to drum up some outrage are brilliant. Congrats to Russia though.

Ah, I debated saying "Brits" or "English" in my opening post because I wasn't sure how the UK at large felt about the bid.  As an American, pretty much the only way I'm getting a World Cup I can legitimately expect to attend is if it's hosted in the US, Canada, or Mexico.  So having one in a neighboring country struck me as a positive thing.

[Druss99]

Upsettingshorts wrote...

Druss99 wrote...

Anyone want to join me in watching Sky Sports News and laughing at the English? The attempts to drum up some outrage are brilliant. Congrats to Russia though.

Ah, I debated saying "Brits" or "English" in my opening post because I wasn't sure how the UK at large felt about the bid.  As an American, pretty much the only way I'm getting a World Cup I can legitimately expect to attend is if it's hosted in the US, Canada, or Mexico.  So having one in a neighboring country struck me as a positive thing.

To be honest I don't really care either way. I couldn't have afforded to go even if it was in England. I can't afford to go and see my beloved Manchester United and the world cup would have been even more expensive. It would have been nice to actually see the World Cup in England but its the media, good god you have no idea what its like. When they keep trying to put it down your throat that they are favourites for everything you have to revel in it when they come undone.

They were declaring themselves favourites to win the World Cup when everyone else could see they were nowhere near good enough. Yesterday English bookies declared them favourites to win this vote and stopped taking bets on it today they were so sure they would win. The English people are fine most of them don't buy into the stupid hype but their media is a joke. Sky Sports News have just declared "an almighty inquest!!" after learning England have only got two votes. Their delegates are taking it fine and congradulating Russia but the media are going mental, its comedy gold. You would think someone has been shot the way they are going on.

Just because Qatar have won the vote now doesn't mean they definately will be able to host it, all sorts of things could go wrong. Apparently the US finished second so theres still hope for you.

Modifié par Druss99, 02 décembre 2010 - 05:09 .

[Kimosabe]

Upsettingshorts wrote...
Any Brits from "across the pond" want to join me in drowning my disappointment in copious amounts of alcohol?

Can I, as a Dutch football fan, also join in?
We had a fair chance, better that the England bid in the end.
I expected it to be in Russia but it still sucks, I would defenatly have gone to matches if it was either in the Netherlands or England

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

glückwünsche auf Russland und Katar ... these 2 countries were at first priority actually. the most advanced country in middle east technologically and biggest country of the world with a long history of football.

[HoonDing]

Congrats to Abramovich & Putin.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

The Englanders are really pissed off. lol

[Ulous]

Being from england i'm more than happy to see the world cup go abroad, if we hosted the world cup and got knocked out we would be failures, if we hosted the world cup and won it everyone would say "you can only win it when you are the hosts", so why bother? Let us win a world cup again before we bother trying to host one.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Ulous wrote...

Being from england i'm more than happy to see the world cup go abroad, if we hosted the world cup and got knocked out we would be failures, if we hosted the world cup and won it everyone would say "you can only win it when you are the hosts", so why bother? Let us win a world cup again before we bother trying to host one.

good point

[Fiery Phoenix]

Finally a world cup I can realistically imagine myself to go see, since Qatar is next door from here.

[Ulous]

With the state the world is in at the moment you have to wonder if we will even make it to 2018/22

[Fiery Phoenix]

Totally agree, Ulous.

[HoonDing]

Russia is so big that it could easily troll nations they dislike by sending them to play in Moscow, Vladivostok and Irkutsk.



Should be an interesting tournament.

[Captain Crash]

Garbage Master wrote...

The Englanders are really pissed off. lol

Well I guess some people are.  A lot of people like myself dont actually care especially since reading this thread title was the first I heard of it

But of course it would have been nice to have it,  just like any of the other bidding nations.

[HoonDing]

Apparently host cities will be all West of the Ural. Disappointing.



Moscow

St. Petersburg

Kaliningrad

Yaroslavl

Nizhniy Novgorod

Saransk

Kazan

Samara

Volgograd

Ekaterinburg

Rostov-on-Don

Krasnodar

Sochi

[Archdemon Cthulhu]

the Russia bid makes sens to me, but I find the Qatar bid a little puzzling. I understand that the middle east has never had a world cup, but I'm just not sure the country has the infrastructure or ability to properly host such an event. . That said, I hope they do get it, because they obviously put a lot of effort in to make the bid even a viable option, much less winnable. I would've liked a US world cup, hell i wouldve loved it, but perhaps it'll just have to happen when Im old and gray.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Archdemon Cthulhu wrote...

the Russia bid makes sens to me, but I find the Qatar bid a little puzzling. I understand that the middle east has never had a world cup, but I'm just not sure the country has the infrastructure or ability to properly host such an event. . That said, I hope they do get it, because they obviously put a lot of effort in to make the bid even a viable option, much less winnable. I would've liked a US world cup, hell i wouldve loved it, but perhaps it'll just have to happen when Im old and gray.

Qatar has 120 billion $ of income yearly, and Qatar is expanding its infrastructures very fast.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Archdemon Cthulhu wrote...

the Russia bid makes sens to me, but I find the Qatar bid a little puzzling. I understand that the middle east has never had a world cup, but I'm just not sure the country has the infrastructure or ability to properly host such an event. . That said, I hope they do get it, because they obviously put a lot of effort in to make the bid even a viable option, much less winnable. I would've liked a US world cup, hell i wouldve loved it, but perhaps it'll just have to happen when Im old and gray.

You realize this ain't going to happen any time soon, right? Twelve years ahead! 

[Darthnemesis2]

I wish it had been the US, but its cool. Like I said in the Football (soccer!) thread, maybe I'll actually have money by 2018 and can go see them play in Russia.

[Druss99]

I said it before but just because Qatar have won the vote doesn't mean they will actually be able to host it. There is an awful lot going against them. I'm surprised that Australia didn't get it they could have used the same kind of boost the US got in 1994.

[caradoc2000]

virumor wrote...

Apparently host cities will be all West of the Ural. Disappointing.

Ekaterinburg is not.

[enerqy]

When it was first announced, I actually liked the idea of Qatar hosting it. All that expanding to Middle East mumbo jumbo, especially since I've lived in lots of different countries. But, Qatar has no football history. Period. Yes, they do have cash, loads of it in fact. But how can that tiny country hold at least 300,000 people for tourism. Maybe I'm exaggerating...but -shrugs-