Franck
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Germany or the United States could host on 2 years notice. Hell, the US could host on 3 months notice without any issue.
Poe
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There's plenty countries that could - I'd say England could too, maybe France too.
Slashman X
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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
Franck
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There's plenty countries that could - I'd say England could too, maybe France too.

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

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

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.
Flash.
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You'd need a minimum of 2 years notice for any of those countries to be ready.

It's one of the biggest events on the planet, you can't just hold it on a whim. There's huge amounts of preparation. There'd be well in excess of 1 million people going to it.

It won't happen though, the appeal processes would go on for so long there wouldn't be enough time.
Flash.
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I love this man.

His rants on FIFA are awesome.
Poe
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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.
Franck
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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.
bmg033
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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.

We could use Old Trafford, The Etihad, Wembley, Olympic Stadium, St James Park, Villa Park, Anfield, Goodison Park and possibly others like Elland Road, Portman Road, Stadium of Light and St Mary's Stadium. As Poe said, we have the infrastructure to cope with it as well.
Sam
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For it to be moved to England they'd have to be a lot of rule changing. Then again Qatar got away with a lot of rule changing so anything is possible.

England would cope fine with a World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
bmg033
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Simon Brodkin, better known as Lee Nelson if you didn't know his real name, pretending to be a North Korean football ambassador and lobbing loads of fake money at Blatter during the press conference
Flash.
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bmg033
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I like how slow his security were to react. What a shame it was only Simon Brodkin and not a hitman that approached Blatter.
K3V0
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Poe
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Sam
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To Blatter that was only a bit of drizzle.
VP.
14 years ago
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Don't see how anyone finds Lee Nelson funny, blokes a twat.
Franck
18 years ago
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You just know Blatter only disapproved because it happened in public...
Vercoe
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Nah, it wasn't enough.
Sam
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Platini being appointed would change nothing.
Franck
18 years ago
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Yeah, he'd just be more of the same shit.
Sam
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Valcke has been suspended from FIFA, earlier he was accused of a scheme to profit from World Cup ticket sales.
Sam
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There was a press conference cancelled earlier, I didn't think much of it, but now we know why.
Ninja
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Uhoh.
Sam
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Shit's going down.
K3V0
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bmg033
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Nice name mate.

http://www.wtfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Who.jpg

Glad that fat Swiss tosser is getting done in finally.
Sam
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Sam
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Platini to AFP on why his £1.35m payment was 9 yrs late: "FIFA informed me that they would not be able to pay me the total agreed amount. Not initially possible to pay the totality of my salary because of FIFA’s financial situation at that time"

FIFA's report 2002: a revenue surplus of CHF 115 million, achieving an improvement of CHF 249 million.

If you're going to lie, try a bit harder.
Sam
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McDonalds and Coca Cola release statements wanting Blatter to step down immediately.

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