World Cup 2018 bid

[Summerof69]

I see Beckham is launching the 2018 bid, but why are the FA doing in planning on using the Plastic Bowl at MK Franchise :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8054261.stm

[A Gent Orange]

I see Beckham is launching the 2018 bid, but why are the FA doing in planning on using the Plastic Bowl at MK Franchise :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8054261.stm

It is a long list of grounds that will gradually get cut down to ten or eight. I can't remember which but it probably isn't going to be MK.

[Ardiles]

That's a strange list.  Milton Keynes shouldn't be anywhere near it, for more reasons than I have time to list here.  And Pompey?!

[LucienSanchez]

If Mexico or the USA get to hold it ahead of us, i'll be annoyed. I can't believe we haven't hosted it again since '66.

[Ardiles]

If we host in 2018, it will 52 years since 1966 and the 13th World Cup since then.  I know there are plenty of factors involved, but given that England has less than 1% of the world's population, we would be doing fairly well to get the World Cup back again so soon.

Slightly off topic here, but when Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics, I was stunned that it would return to the US just 12 years after the Los Angeles Games.  Even for a country of 300 million people, you shouldn't really have the event returning there more often than once every 40 years or so.

[Sippo]

Its obviously all to do with stadium locations etc.

[juddie]

anyone going to SA next year?

[Phil_S]

That's a strange list.  Milton Keynes shouldn't be anywhere near it, for more reasons than I have time to list here.  And Pompey?!

Pompeys main stand is made of old railway sleepers & is not much bigger & definitely older than ours. Unless they are going to have a new ground by then there is no way it could host a world cup game

[Summerof69]

I was reading a paper yesterday that Pompey are still planning a new ground, despite not having no meney !!!

[Summerof69]

Slightly off topic here, but when Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics, I was stunned that it would return to the US just 12 years after the Los Angeles Games.  Even for a country of 300 million people, you shouldn't really have the event returning there more often than once every 40 years or so.

Of course, Chicago are bidding to host the 2016 Olympics, and trying to use the Obama factor to help get it. If they win, the US would have had 3 summer Olympics in less that 40 years, and they've also had a Winter one in Salt Lake City also.

[Spencer_White]

I hope we DONT win.

Would save the country a load of money on stadiums we dont need.

[Power to people]

We have no chance of hosting 2018 - we're not prepared to give kick backs to fifa delegates in return for their vote - most if not all of fifa is corrupt

[Summerof69]

Would save the country a load of money on stadiums we dont need.

The stadia is already built (Wembley, Emirates, Old Trafford, etc.) so it won't cost anyway near what the Olympics will.

[Spencer_White]

The stadia is already built (Wembley, Emirates, Old Trafford, etc.) so it won't cost anyway near what the Olympics will.

You say that, but look at the draft names on the list? Do Bristol, Hull and Portsmouth really need 40,000 seater stadiums? Just creating white elephants for the future. Leicester's would also need upgrading. Do Nottingham Forest really need a new ground?

Im also upset because I thought Anfield was saved with the inability of the Yanks to get more finance. From what I understand this bid seems obsessed with building all new stadia.

It gets more rediculous every time we fail to host it. The FA seem to be so desperate for it they feel they have to blow everyone else out of the water with mega bucks.

We dont need new stadiums, we need to reign in people like Richard Scudamore who make other associations hate us.

[4D]

anyone going to SA next year?

St Albans? What's going on there?