corrupt organization decides to throw it's party in a criminal country run by a mafia boss and a facist oil state made from dollars bills.

SURPRISING!

you forgot about bears walking down the streets

The sad part is that both of you are right...

Sorry my bad, it's not 4 votes, it's TWO.
This is beyond me.

it may have something to do with Brits thinking they are better than everyone else.

it may have something to do with Brits knowing they are better than everyone else.

fyp.

does fyp mean fuck you punk?

I hope so because I'm using it.

Well if anyone had any doubts left that FIFA is corrupt they should be gone.
Russia is somehow understandable, although England would obviously have been the best choice.

But Qatar???
The country has like 1.5m inhabitants. 10 out of 12 stadiums will be within a 25km radius of Doha.
What will they do with these stadiums (all with more than 40k seats) after the games?
Also Booo for Zidane, Guardiola and Ferguson for supporting this ridiculous bid.

Well, they are a developed country with tons of money to spend on a WC for self-promotion.

It's a much safer bet than South Africa, Brazil or Russia imho.

I thought FIFA was about expanding the community to new territories?

They and russia won becuase they said once the stadiums have been played it they will be dismantled and the money and scrap mental raised will be used for 3rd world countries.

You can't compete with that level of bullshit.

Imagine some english fans who can't get drunk because it is not allowed haha.
Big events like this should go to countries who can actually provide a football culture. I bet you will never see the wm in urugay or portugal.

WM sucks anyway cl ftw

Rofl Portugal pwned England so many times in WC and euro.
England only has a good league cause they have 90% foreigners and without Mourinho, henry and Ronaldo no one cares about it anymore.
Its about the spanish league now and champions league.
Oh and btw Portugal beat WC winners 4-0 some months ago.
But nt retard.

seriously, wtf?

England can't even do state sponsored media right how do you expect them to host the World Cup??

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Japan-Korea had it in 2002, not possible they won it again in just 10 years time.

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In soviet Russia, FIFA bribes you!

I don't know much about the difference in offers between the countries, but there's never been a world cup in any Eastern European country so that's at least one huge factor in why Russia is a better choice for FIFA. Watching Sky news today after the announcement was quite funny, just because England lost there just had to be foul play involved. Every guy interviewed seemed to be amazed they didn't get get through despite oscar perfomances by Cameron, Beckham and Prince Williams and the best presentation in HISTORY (they all mentioned this). Gotta love British arrogance. That said I'm not underrestimating FIFA's level of corruption and Russia is obviously a mafia country, and personally I'd much have preferred it if England had won since I could actually go.

yeah, same. :(

I don't think it's so much that the England bid lost, it's getting two votes and going out in the first round with a very serious bid that should have been a big contender that's pretty fucking dodgy. British arrogance? I don't see how being disappointed not to get the world cup is arrogance, don't take media bullshit as speaking for Britain.

True, and it's quite ridiculous that Spain-Portugal, two nations on the brink of bankruptcy got seven while England only two.

England won't be far behind Portugal -> Spain.

Joke?
Portugal / Spain could offer more and better stadiums and accommodations then any other candidacy.
wtf does bankruptcy or not have to with it(which is not true, pt and es aren't called Greece or Ireland, in case u were retard enough to confuse the names).
In fact England don't deserve it they have a high percentage of gingers and they think they are above everyone else.

They couldn't win after the BBC investigation tbh.

Now I really want more BBC investigation on these fuckers

I wonder if England would of won if they had saved this report and ran with Panorama: Why FIFA are such Top Men.

Best part is I just checked RT and they're airing it tonight... The same day of the pick lmao

England would have been the far better choice. But i guess money talks.

Who the fuck wants to go to smelly russia? :(

they got super hot women

yeah well but who the fuck wants to go to the uk?

poles?
indians?
pakistanis?
etc.

And u like it? :D lol

Until they move in next door, yes I like it.

That's a healthy attitude...

No offence buddie, I just hate chav's (regardless of ethnicity).

Fair enough.

Good to know they trickle down from here to your area, though.






:PPPP

and vice versa :P

http://www.travelexpertguide.org/forum/Europe...391116.htm

Not even hitler wanted to.

I so don't care about soccer and I don't even know what you're talking about.

Yet you're raged and that's funny!!!

: DDDD

lmao @ qatar,
what rank does qatars national team have in the fifa list?


like 214th i guess

best argument so far!

I remember it being the absolutely worst national team in NHL 94(or was it 95?) :D. That's a hockey game though, but still, the absolute worst!

nhl 94 had qatar in it? :D

is there even enough space in that country QATAR to fit all the stadiums and or tourists? I hear its tiny. PRoly a bunch of sand ngrs.

vuvuzelas will be back...

Who wouldn't want to come to Australia for the World Cup!?!?
:O

I guess the aussies are more interested in cricket and rugby?

noctis?

I can understand wanting to hold it in the middle east or eastern europe, but why pick an island with 1.5 million people and 106 degree average summer temperatures? That's just stupid. At least soccer is probably popular in Russia.

England and the US would be much better venues, provided they get about a weeks notice. There are already stadiums and every match is guaranteed to be sold out.

Brazil will at least be somewhere pretty cool.

Is Putin actually an agent of cooller?

Putin is driver of cooller's dog's manager.

hahaha awesome, thank you! Original training montage is so awesome too :D

As most people in this thread have rightfully pointed out the disparity in votes in the 2018 bid I'd like to point out the equally abysmal voting for the 2022 bid.

Qatar received double, and in one round nearly triple the votes of other countries. Personally, as an Australian, I am biased - who wouldn't be. Yet there are profound questions to be asked of FIFA and that fat crooked cunt Blatter.

I would have thought Australia to be the most attractive nom for 22. Never been in the continent before, it is already an attractive tourist destination, the stadia already exist (WC final at the MCG anyone? Would be amazing) yet we lose out to Qatar.

Ohwell, fuck FIFA, I look forward to all the reports of people being assaulted in russia and then being arrested in qatar for consuming illegally obtained alcohol.

At least Brazil will go off.

Also, the AFC deemed Qatar unacceptable to host the final of their competition. Good enough for FIFA however.

lmao@england

=P

I heard that Russia will pay for the travel fee for fans and VISA is not required, damn, I would like to go Russia in 2018!

Damn, cooller would have single-handedly owned the world :(

This is the best thing in the universe

I am more surprised about the strength of Portugal/Spain bid. They are almost bankrupt. Spain has a ridiculously high unemployment rate and the banks there are in trouble too? But I guess this might be the strength of their bid. Both countries are passionate about football and hosting the World Cup would do something for them financially and maybe even something for their identity (it kind of did that for Germany 4 years ago).

I honesly don't see an issue with Russia really. While not the most football crazy country, there is some decent football going on. Russia certainly has the money to organize it.

Qatar is the one I am pondering about a little as I think they will not be able to provide the football vibe fans all expect. But it's 12 years to go. Maybe some laws and rules concerning alcohol etc. will be loosened by them (I don't have high hopes, but you never know). It would certainly be in the interest of their hosting effort. The recycling of the stadiums sounds awesome, but only time will tell if they will keep their word.

no hot women in bikinis in 2022? :((((

Gotta have to peak under the burka I guess!

I'm surprised everyone believes everything they see on the media, especially when the ECB and our PM already stated that portugal financial situation is healthy and the rumors about being near bankrupcy are 100% bullshit. we're even lending a few couple thousands of millions to the irish : S. not sure about the spain situation tho

surprises everywhere!

any nation that already got the wc in its country should be disqualified since the beginning anyway.

I mean why would you reproduce worldcups when countries like Belgium and The Netherlands (founders of the friggin fifa) are applying for one and havent got one ever ? Same goes for Spain which recently won the worldcup, they deserve a tons more. And I'm not mentionning you already have the olympics in 2012 to think about ;x

As of Russia, well, that's pretty sad. Won't go in details on why this choice was the most shittiest possible but Id rather have had it in England or Spain than in Russia :x

How is Belgium/Netherlands founding the FIFA and Spain winning the World Cup a deciding factor....?

dont know, tell me how the hell the voters voted then and I will tell you which deciding factor outside of money and political influence it might be.

wont go in details blablabla tell more or gtfo

why is russia inacceptable? i mean, russian football improved a lot over the last few years and i think they deserve a shot at hosting something big.

and i don't think that most of the football fans are brawling drunk hooligans like the polish ;)

a shot at something big ? you have tons of things happening at once at the moment afaik.

To get my point you only need to surf around the various newspapers on internet (not russia ones).

you're just upset because you teamed up with holland and naturally lost :>

You mean like how Japan and Italy teamed up with you guys?

pretty much, but I am not whinging that we lost :)

we did not lose, it is all communist propaganda :D

Wouldn't that be France m8?

Hmmm apparently Martin Samuel is raged :/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/art...er-it.html

first world hating on the actual world itt

I can understand Russia. I can't understand Qatar.

WHAT IS HAPPEN WHAT GOING ON

Their national team is more like a club team ffs lol. And a really shitty one at that.

And the Qatar national team don't need to play qualifying rounds LOLz

Now we will be guaranteed to have a worse host team than south africa

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Except South Africa were quite a good team at the last World Cup. Good players with a good coach, they were unlucky not to make out of the group - especially after they routed France and that faggot dominick wouldn't even shake hands after the match hahaha.

Dunno how come everyone is so annoyed at them not voting for England - it is supposed to be a secret ballot, and just because we have made informal deals with those involved doesn't mean we have any right to assume they would vote in our favour, otherwise it would be us trying to bribe them?

Talking of bribes, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11921692

bit of a shitty bribe considering Blatter's standard is getting use of a private jet in exchange for the world cup.

He should of offered him the Mandarin Oriental, it has much better views over the park than the Dorchester.

FIFA si corrupt? what a shocker!!!!


Seriously guys. It stinks since it grew too much as most things in life.

Don't really care one way or the other. All I know is that those stadium concepts Qatar showed were pretty faptastic.

LOL @ brit cry babys.
Everytime something doesn't go their way, they blame mafia, corruption , bad luck etc
Well maybe u guys should look at mirrror instead of thinking ur king of the world.