World cup 2022 Qatar

[Jeff]

Wtf

 

[pork pie fox]

Unbelievable

 

[Hazzman]

Un ****ing believable. It's an absolute ****ing farce!

 

[Han]

Ditto what i wrote in the 2018 thread!!

Strange decision.

After the risky selection of South Africa, Brazil and Russia you might have thought FIFA would go for a 'safe' bet.

The voters seem more drawn by the ambitious bids than they are the safer ones. Perhaps if we proposed to hold the tournament on the moon we might be in with a chance.

 

[City Fan]

As an ex-resident I'm delighted for them! Excellent country and will put on a great World Cup without a doubt. Only problem is how small the country is as I'm not sure where they will fit all the infrastructure or accommodate all the visitors! The good news is it means minimal travel for people who want to watch the games.

 

[Han]

As an ex-resident I'm delighted for them! Excellent country and will put on a great World Cup without a doubt. Only problem is how small the country is as I'm not sure where they will fit all the infrastructure or accommodate all the visitors! The good news is it means minimal travel for people who want to watch the games.

I seem to remember that one of the stadiums was only reachable by 'water taxi', is that right?

 

[pork pie fox]

I can understand (to a degree) 2018 going to Russia, but this is an absolute farce. It's become more like the F1 circus.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

They won the bid by promising they'd demolish the stadia after the tournament and send the pieces to the Third World to be re-assembled.

... so Forest will get a new ground after all.

 

[Willlow]

After all the stories about corruption within Fifa you would have thought they would have been a little less obvious.

 

[City Fan]

I seem to remember that one of the stadiums was only reachable by 'water taxi', is that right?

Not sure - it's been 12 years since I was there and back then the football stadiums didn't even have seats...it was simply just tiered concrete blocks covered in empty nut shells.

 

[Willlow]

Wasnt there talk of the stadiums in Qatar having roofs and air conditioning due to the heat in the summer?

 

[Han]

http://www.talkingballs.co.uk/showthread.php?p=918825&highlight=qatar#post918825

I may have elaborated by saying "the only way..."

 

[Jeff]

Will this be the first time it's been held in a country that's not a democracy?

 

[Willlow]

Will this be the first time it's been held in a country that's not a democracy?

Did you not see that Russia won the 2018 bid? :icon_wink

 

[Motown Fox]

They won the bid by promising they'd demolish the stadia after the tournament and send the pieces to the Third World to be re-assembled.

... so Forest will get a new ground after all.

:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

 

[Hazzman]

After all the stories about corruption within Fifa you would have thought they would have been a little less obvious.

Or the fact that this fella, head of AFC, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bin_Hammam

is from Qatar and had recently considered a leadership challenge against Blatter for the head role. I bet he ain't considering it anymore.

 

[FryattFox]

There's only 1 city in Qatar!

Maybe we should just apply as Leicester in 2030 - if we can enough money in the right hands we'd be a definite winner.

 

[drummindefender]

There's only 1 city in Qatar!

Maybe we should just apply as Leicester in 2030 - if we can enough money in the right hands we'd be a definite winner.

It will be one of the Birch's campaign pledges

 

[Graz]

Very weird decision! I was hoping it would go to Australia.

Qatar didn't even have people from their own country representing the bid it seemed.

Odd.

 

[fcukcov]

2018 Russia
2022 Qatar or Australia.