England Bid for World Cup 2018

[Part Of The Crowd]

[RedHux]

I thought your plans to build a new one got rejected??

Yep, and now we've got all new plans to build about a mile away, along with a bunch of houses, shops and uncle tom cobley and all but some insane tory councillor doesn't like us so she blocks everything.

Basically, it's got "complete disaster" written all over it.

[rmc]

I can't understand that at all - why MK, Nottingham and Plymouth have been chosen in particular is utterly ridiculous. And then for Mahwhinney to completely rule Leicester out as a back-up to Nottingham's mess-up of a bid. Unbelieveable.

[purpleronnie]

Will the government now help pay for these new stadiums? or will the club/council pick up the whole bill?

[StanSP]

Plymouth are gonna build a new 47,000 seater stadium probably now.

What they do after the WC (should we get it) is beyond belief too. Similar to Dons, their average attendance is around 11k only.

[easilee]

What did we expect ?

Was pretty certain we wouldn't get it anyway. I mean, centrally located, regular transport, decent ground with international experience, ethnically diverse, regenerated city centre

and a few other points i can't remember.

Most would say that describes Nottingham too, but at least we have stadium. Fookin' tealeaves

[Tommeh]

Hillsborough over Bramall Lane is baffling too, yes Hillsboroughs the nicer ground and I prefer it 100 times over, but 3 miles away on the tram's which struggle with 20,000 when the Lane is smack in the City.

What a lovely big mess.

Glad we're not involved in such a farcial bid and the Way can remain 2/3 full as opposed to 1/2.

[Corky]

Well as we had to increase the capacity I'm not too bothered.

But Plymouth and MK Dons are taking massive risks with their futures over this.

[Part Of The Crowd]

[Madrid_Fox]

Its a sham surely? How did Bristol and Plymouth both have their bids accepted?

On the bright side, the city centre wont get smashed up by Poles and Turks

[Guest Bilo]

Baffling as the stadium's not been built.

And if sources previously posted are to be believed, probably never will be with the disputes between NFFC and NCC.

[lcfc_jme]

Its a sham surely? How did Bristol and Plymouth both have their bids accepted?

On the bright side, the city centre wont get smashed up by Poles and Turks

Friday and Saturday nights suggest otherwise.

[Madrid_Fox]

Forest only have to improve 1 stand, seems pointless that their city council is proposing a new stadium. And if a new stadium is approved, they will probably end up sharing with Notts County. No football fan wants to ground share.

[Guest Bilo]

Our bid must have been truly awful or the selecting committee woefully incompetent for us to be beaten by a Milton Keynes bid that was scandalously suggested on the shortlist, a Nottingham bid that had more shortcomings than a orgy for dwarves and a Plymouth bid based at an awful stadium in the middle of nowhere that will be an almighty white elephant.

[PSYCHO]

[Corky]

Nope, and completely filled with comfy seats and pleasant stewards of course.

If it all goes wrong where will you relocate to after the event?

[Part Of The Crowd]

If it all goes wrong where will you relocate to after the event?

We can all come and stay at my house, failing that I'm sure we could franchise kingsmeadow or steal some other poor sod's club.

[Shrenchel]

Thank fvck for that. The atmosphere at the Walkers is shit enough as it is without 10,000+ extra empty blue seats. I don't really know why anyone thought it was worth it for bloody Paraguay vs Egypt or whatever, which you'd end up watching from your living room anyway. Fvcking emperor's new clothes. Forest's new ground is gunnna be absolutely hilarious, 20,000 of them rattling around inside a 45,000 seater frisbee. Cock to that.

[Guest Bilo]

Thank fvck for that. The atmosphere at the Walkers is shit enough as it is without 10,000+ extra empty blue seats. I don't really know why anyone thought it was worth it for bloody Paraguay vs Egypt or whatever, which you'd end up watching from your living room anyway. Fvcking emperor's new clothes. Forest's new ground is gunnna be absolutely hilarious, 20,000 of them rattling around inside a 45,000 seater frisbee. Cock to that.

Forest's new ground = The New Ricoh.

[Shrenchel]

Hopefully Spain & Portugal will get the world cup anyway. Now that'd be a proper holiday.

[h1210]

Hopefully Spain & Portugal will get the world cup anyway. Now that'd be a proper holiday.

And a full qualifying campaign to boot

[lcfcadam]

This bid can fook off then, hope we don't get it. Tossers.

Also Plymouth! Yeah good one.

Didn't think I'd ever say it but I agree now - I also hope England don't win the bid.

Their bid has been a right load of old crap from the beginning anyway, and this choice of host cities just sums it up.

Relying on stadiums that haven't even got planning permission? Increasing the stadium sizes to over 40,000 of clubs whose attendances will never top 20k?

Hopefully Jack Warner and the rest of those FIFA cockshafts will get their way and host it somewhere truly ridiculous like Russia.

The FA can go fook themselves (as I'm sure they enjoy doing on a regular basis anyway).

[lcfcadam]

a Nottingham bid that had more shortcomings than a orgy for dwarves

[breadandcheese]

The hosting of a world cup game is a contract between a city and FIFA, rather than the football club.

So when all the world cup preparation goes tits up and the government/local councils have to plough millions of pounds into new stadia and upgrades for Plymouth, Nottingham, Liverpool, MK and Sheffield Wednesday, what will the football league do to redress this unfair subsidy from the taxpayer?

[l444ry]

Nice of them to spread it about a bit!! Three grounds within spitting distance in London, two in Manchester. What criteria do these idiots work on?