England 2018 World Cup Bid results - 4th out of 4!

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EdButler

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 Sheffield
Well i'm the first to admit i'm not a proper football fan, just liking the International tournaments... This does make me feel somewhat gutted though having gone from odds-on bookies favourites to coming last!

Russia won by the way, and apparently Putin didn't even care!

What are your thoughts?
 
Damn, I knew I should have stuck a few sterlings on Russia! Yeah, we were always going to struggle i think. The Villa/Birmingham fans kicking off last night probably didn't help too much either. Love the fact that Putin doesn't care! Gutted only because it may have brought some business and cash to these shores.
 
Never mind. I'm guessing you will all have to go back to the attempt to link the 2014 World Cup to 1966 now :poke:
 
They probably looked at how the UK falls apart when we get a bit of snow and thought if that's the case how would we manage to orchestrate a World Cup ;)
 
Roman Abramovich has appeared to have bought FIFA by the looks of it :o

That will teach England not to have gone with a UK bid. Just think the World Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium and a Semi at Wembley. :poke:

That woulod definately have won! :thumbsup:

Oh well, we'll stick with the Rally in Wales and you lot can dream of the World Cup in 2030 :poke:
 
ballington31 said:
didnt help with pamarama slagging fifa off the day before voting dohhh :headbang:
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Or of course the rioting between Birmingham and Villa last night.

(You'd never catch Cardiff City fans misbehaving :poke: )
 
stevedruidstone said:
Should have brought it to Cardiff, Wales can go it alone next time
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We are 2 places above Qatar in the FIFA world rankings so maybe not a bad idea.
 
I suppose it was just to ensure that you lot qualified for that year's Copa del Mundo. At least we in Scotland know we are pish!!!LOL
 
BBC News said:
But in a secret ballot the executive committee opted against sending the 2018 tournament to England for the first time since 1966.
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We lost because we did not pay bribes to FIFA officials. Why did Russia and Qatar win? They don't have to deal with deficit and have s**t load of cash to pay FIFA excutive members. :rofl:

Forget about football and just watch motorsports. :thumbsup:
 
It was down to the usual internal sabotage efforts of the media. Personally I think whoever had the idea to show the panorama episode before the bid closure should be taken outside and shot, I have said it before but Englands biggest enemy is its own media. always quick to take the praise when you win but constantly thinking about how to undermine both the national team and club football. anyone would think the media did not want you to win.....anything.
 
Nosa said:
It was down to the usual internal sabotage efforts of the media. Personally I think whoever had the idea to show the panorama episode before the bid closure should be taken outside and shot, I have said it before but Englands biggest enemy is its own media. always quick to take the praise when you win but constantly thinking about how to undermine both the national team and club football. anyone would think the media did not want you to win.....anything.
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Can we not just shoot all the media, paparazzi scum, z list celebritys in fact everyone but Z4 owners :thumbsup:
 
We always tend to have an overblown opinion of ourselves as a nation.In this life you get what you deserve, and I'm not sure we deserved to have it, and our press really deserve a kicking for this cock up. We were last IMO because of the Pamarama programme, to teach us a lesson. It would've brought a lot of tourist income to us,but hey ho, the good old press f*ck it up again. I hope they feel better!! Not bribing FIFA was maybe error too :poke: Not that Russia is corrupt................. :roll:
 
Personally the only answer to this is to sort out the lack of conviction in the national squad and go out and win it, and pigs fly :D
 
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