Russia to host World Cup 2018

[TightEnd]

Absolutely ridiculous, esp giving 2022 to Qatar. The country only has 1.6m inhabitants. If they build 8 stadia for this and each has a capacity for 50,000, they could collectively fit 1/4 of the country's population into them. Not gonna have much use for them afterwards though. This should have been turned down on enviromental grounds as a waste of resources.

much the same thing would've counted against the english bid. putting an extra tier on franchise fc's stadium has to be the most ridic waste of resources I've ever heard of

Stadium MK is now a complete white elephant

[TightEnd]

Confirmed we got 2 votes out of 22


Panorama, well done lads


what a farce!!

Freedom of the media is more important than running a corrupt football tournament imo.

and that's fair comment.

Undeniable it had an effect though?

[TightEnd]

Turns out we only got 2 votes

one was Geoff Thompson who then transferred the vote to Russia


It is also confirmed from him that Blatter warned the delgates about the British Media pre-vote

[ripple11]

Confirmed we got 2 votes out of 22


Panorama, well done lads


what a farce!!

Don't England have one rep?.....so we won one vote!!??

[GreekStein]

Confirmed we got 2 votes out of 22


Panorama, well done lads


what a farce!!

Freedom of the media is more important than running a corrupt football tournament imo.

True but wouldn't have harmed to air it a week later!

[duncthehat]

2 votes and there was an Englishman on the commitee!!   Fuck we are popular.

5 to blame why lets think:  Daily Mail
                                     Sunday Times
                                     Panorama
                                     That peado looking journo
                                     Jeremy Vine for hosting the show


So lets see.  you earn say 100 million for hosting (just a ballpark figure)   bribe 22 officials 2 million each.   Total profit 56 million.   F uck fair play it gets you knowhere
          

[The Camel]

Confirmed we got 2 votes out of 22


Panorama, well done lads


what a farce!!

Freedom of the media is more important than running a corrupt football tournament imo.

and that's fair comment.

Undeniable it had an effect though?

Obviously had a huge effect.

But that makes me more pleased we didn't get the gig if the voters are that corrupt.

[ripple11]

Amazing to think England were about 8/13  just before the result.

[Bongo]

Programme is worthless is they air it a week later and someone else had won.

[celtic]

Amazing to think England were about 8/13  just before the result.

Same price they normally are to win the world cup every time.... just before they play their first game

[Bongo]

Programme is worthless is they air it a week later and someone else had won.

OTOH if it was true, and the process was corrupt (I didn't watch it, but I think that was the gist?), then airing it before the process won't matter anyway because the process was corrupt.

[TightEnd]

the voting round by round

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/bidders/2018/media/newsid=1344971.html

[AlrightJack]

Don't expect this to last long, but make hay while the sun shines 

[TightEnd]

I'll vote then think about being a mod lol

[Snowball]

250million quid on each vote, what a waste of Tax Payers Money.
Heads should roll at  the (former) Goverment and FA.