The FIFA Thread

There's plenty countries that could - I'd say England could too, maybe France too.

No they couldn't really. There's other criteria than "Have some stadiums". You have to have "villages" or some shite within 200 yards/metres of the stadium or something stupid like that

They don't have the stadiums required and I doubt they have the infrastructure.

There's requirements on stadium capacity and facilities, and there's requirements on infrastructure and things like available hotel beds, never heard anything about any "villages". Event areas can be built in a fortnight.

One of the big arguments for the US bid was that it wouldn't require any new infrastructure to be built, there's already something like 90 different stadiums in the US that are up to standards, and major US cities won't have any issues with hotel beds, airport access and whatnot.

England/Britain definitely has the infrastructure, they just held the Olympics.

Old Trafford, Emirates, Stamford Bridge, St James's Park, Etihad, Anfield, Olympic Stadium Stadium of Light, Millennium Stadium, Twickenham, Hampden, Ibrox and Parkhead I'd say are enough stadiums too.

You're only allowed to use a maximum of two stadiums from the same city, joint bids aren't permitted and I doubt an English bid would be allowed to use Welsh and Scottish stadiums.

Make it rain.

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