England Bid for World Cup 2018

[Floating Fox]

GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN ARMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Guest]

I wish people would stop looking at this as a competition between football clubs and their stadia. Bids are built around other factors too, and yes, we have the Highcross, but apart from that Leicester has bugger all else in terms of entertainment, and has virtually no infrastructure to speak of. I would have been more surprised to see Leicester get the nod over other cities, to be honest. Our city has been let down appalling by the City Council over the years, and this failed bid highlights this.

[Babylon]

One from Fez I think

Ha ha nice.

[Kilworthfox]

One from Fez I think

Well that's what I think about all this crap.

[breadandcheese]

http://www.thebluearmy.co.uk/bevanblog/Wor...il/article.html

Whilst I agree with this article, for me the issue is that should England get to host the world cup, a number of clubs will get unfair help in that they will be subsidised by the taxpayer to build and improve stadia.

[h1210]

Whilst I agree with this article, for me the issue is that should England get to host the world cup, a number of clubs will get unfair help in that they will be subsidised by the taxpayer to build and improve stadia.

Which people only assume to be increased size, the facilities will cost a massive amount to upgrade (see Elland Road) and this is unfair on the clubs not involved

[Babylon]

I wish people would stop looking at this as a competition between football clubs and their stadia. Bids are built around other factors too, and yes, we have the Highcross, but apart from that Leicester has bugger all else in terms of entertainment, and has virtually no infrastructure to speak of. I would have been more surprised to see Leicester get the nod over other cities, to be honest. Our city has been let down appalling by the City Council over the years, and this failed bid highlights this.

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

[breadandcheese]

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

Don't forget the bridge. I hear Lord Triesmann was particularly put out when he heard Bowstring Bridge was going to be taken down. That sealed it.

[Sly]

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

..... but Leicester has the wicked and best shopping centre in the UK that is HIGHCROSS!! <_<

Your right, Leicester suffers from all of the above and much more, as a City, Leicester isn't set up to host anything on the scale of a World Cup game.

[Bellend Sebastian]

If they were inviting bids from cities to be the home of the UK's biggest and smelliest dog chod*, Leicester people would moan if Nottingham got that

* It's not been widely publicised, but it's actually in Leicester, on Conduit Street.

One Leicester!

[Guest Bilo]

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

When you put it like that!

Having said that though, most of what you've described can be attributed to several cities that were actually accepted. Most English cities just aren't as attractive as cities in other European countries. Barcelona or Birmingham? Manchester or Munich? Or maybe familiarity breeds contempt.

[Alexikokopops]

Why aren't we bidding for this as a British Tournament?

We could have used any of the following then:

1. Wembley Stadium - London - 90,000

2. Croke Park - Dublin - 82,500

3. Olympic Stadium - London - 80,000

4. Old Trafford - Manchester - 76, 212

5. Millenium Stadium - Cardiff - 74,500

6. Celtic Park - Glasgow - 60,832

7. St James Park - Newcastle - 52,387

8. New Everton Stadium - Liverpool - 50,000

9. Emirates Stadium - 60,332

10. Hampden Park - Glasgow - 52,103

Given the fact that we're worried about having a Great Britain team in the Olympics because it could threaten the separate teams we have for each country, I'm not sure a joint bid between the four separate nations (five if you're including Eire) would ever happen

[Edmund]

I wish people would stop looking at this as a competition between football clubs and their stadia. Bids are built around other factors too, and yes, we have the Highcross, but apart from that Leicester has bugger all else in terms of entertainment, and has virtually no infrastructure to speak of. I would have been more surprised to see Leicester get the nod over other cities, to be honest. Our city has been let down appalling by the City Council over the years, and this failed bid highlights this.

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

..... but Leicester has the wicked and best shopping centre in the UK that is HIGHCROSS!! <_<

Your right, Leicester suffers from all of the above and much more, as a City, Leicester isn't set up to host anything on the scale of a World Cup game.

Finally some sense is being spoken.

I bet you lcfcadam is googling pictures of the kp and the walkers crisps factories as we speak in retaliation

[Guest Bilo]

Love how Leicester has become an undisputed hellhole and Nottingham a land of milk and honey overnight. Hilarious. Fact is, that both are pretty unremarkable cities with pluses and minuses. All this is pointless, the World Cup won't be coming to England until 2026 at the very earliest anyway.

[Babylon]

Love how Leicester has become an undisputed hellhole and Nottingham a land of milk and honey overnight. Hilarious. Fact is, that both are pretty unremarkable cities with pluses and minuses. All this is pointless, the World Cup won't be coming to England until 2026 at the very earliest anyway.

The difference is Nottingham can hide the shit, come out of their station and onto a nice tram and bang into the big town hall square with shops, bars and restaurants, quite European really.

Come out of our station and dodge tramps and urine... not forgetting the fact that the sun is blocked out by a 30 story viagra. Bulid a tram that goes from the train station to the bus station via the clock tower, knock down the haymarket and tarmac belgrave gate. Turn the giant hole that is left into a great big European style square. BOOOM... hello world cup.

[Zingari]

sunderland is a truly beautiful place

[davieG]

The difference is Nottingham can hide the shit, come out of their station and onto a nice tram and bang into the big town hall square with shops, bars and restaurants, quite European really.

Come out of our station and dodge tramps and urine... not forgetting the fact that the sun is blocked out by a 30 story viagra. Bulid a tram that goes from the train station to the bus station via the clock tower, knock down the haymarket and tarmac belgrave gate. Turn the giant hole that is left into a great big European style square. BOOOM... hello world cup.

Kidnap Robin Hood, or at least rename London Road Station - Robin Hood Station

He must have passed through at least once.

[Guest Bilo]

The difference is Nottingham can hide the shit, come out of their station and onto a nice tram and bang into the big town hall square with shops, bars and restaurants, quite European really.

Come out of our station and dodge tramps and urine... not forgetting the fact that the sun is blocked out by a 30 story viagra. Bulid a tram that goes from the train station to the bus station via the clock tower, knock down the haymarket and tarmac belgrave gate. Turn the giant hole that is left into a great big European style square. BOOOM... hello world cup.

As amazing as that would be, would it really be worth it for the aformentioned Egypt v New Zealand on a Wednesday night that we'd get from it? Nottingham's tram service may indeed hide a lot of the shit, but that shit is easy to find once you leave it's city centre. Beyond that area, Nottingham is a bit of a tip. The city centre is like lipstick on a pig. It's a serious point, how on earth can cities like Nottingham, Plymouth and Milton Keynes compete with the likes of Malaga, Bilbao and Faro? Can Home Park and stadium:mk ever be considered as prestigious venues as similarly sized stadia as the Riazor in La Coruna or Estádio do Dragão in Porto?

[Babylon]

As amazing as that would be, would it really be worth it for the aformentioned Egypt v New Zealand on a Wednesday night that we'd get from it? Nottingham's tram service may indeed hide a lot of the shit, but that shit is easy to find once you leave it's city centre. Beyond that area, Nottingham is a bit of a tip. The city centre is like lipstick on a pig. It's a serious point, how on earth can cities like Nottingham, Plymouth and Milton Keynes compete with the likes of Malaga, Bilbao and Faro? Can Home Park and stadium:mk ever be considered as prestigious venues as similarly sized stadia as the Riazor in La Coruna or Estádio do Dragão in Porto?

Forget the world cup, i'm not bothered about that. I would just like a city with a bit of thought and imagination running through it.

[The Doctor]

As amazing as that would be, would it really be worth it for the aformentioned Egypt v New Zealand on a Wednesday night that we'd get from it? Nottingham's tram service may indeed hide a lot of the shit, but that shit is easy to find once you leave it's city centre. Beyond that area, Nottingham is a bit of a tip. The city centre is like lipstick on a pig. It's a serious point, how on earth can cities like Nottingham, Plymouth and Milton Keynes compete with the likes of Malaga, Bilbao and Faro? Can Home Park and stadium:mk ever be considered as prestigious venues as similarly sized stadia as the Riazor in La Coruna or Estádio do Dragão in Porto?

. The reason nottingham got it is because they have a hooters and we don't, simple as.

[Daggers]

Forget the world cup, i'm not bothered about that. I would just like a city with a bit of thought and imagination running through it.

All politicians love swingers clubs and prostitutes.

[lcfcadam]

. The reason nottingham got it is because they have a hooters and we don't, simple as.

I'll go with that... Perhaps when the reasoning behind their decision gets released that'll be the main point for Nottingham, and I'll suddenly start supporting the bid again!

[Sly]

All politicians love swingers clubs and prostitutes.

It's not just them that likes that sort of stuff

[Guest]

Love how Leicester has become an undisputed hellhole and Nottingham a land of milk and honey overnight. Hilarious. Fact is, that both are pretty unremarkable cities with pluses and minuses. All this is pointless, the World Cup won't be coming to England until 2026 at the very earliest anyway.

As amazing as that would be, would it really be worth it for the aformentioned Egypt v New Zealand on a Wednesday night that we'd get from it? Nottingham's tram service may indeed hide a lot of the shit, but that shit is easy to find once you leave it's city centre. Beyond that area, Nottingham is a bit of a tip. The city centre is like lipstick on a pig. It's a serious point, how on earth can cities like Nottingham, Plymouth and Milton Keynes compete with the likes of Malaga, Bilbao and Faro? Can Home Park and stadium:mk ever be considered as prestigious venues as similarly sized stadia as the Riazor in La Coruna or Estádio do Dragão in Porto?

Thing is, whilst all cities have shithole areas, including Barcelona, you cannot deny that Leicester city centre itself has little going for it. Apart from bleeding Highcross.

[Rich Fox]

Exactly... Ultra and his council friends can scream foul play as much as they want. Until they actually make the city into something people want to visit we will constantly be let down and overlooked for major events.

Can you image a delegation from Fifa turning up to inspect the city. They step off the train to be greeted by a 30 storey blue stickle brick. Take a nice walk through the underpass where they meet the local tramps asking for some spare change, whilst breathing in the stench of 500 late night pisses.

Carry on down Granby Street and take in the local businesses like Dixy Chicken, Maryland Chicken, Munch Munch Chicken, Nandos Chicken and Bennys Chicken... obviously being careful to dodge the puke and discarded chicken bones.

Go down Gallowtree Gate and stop off to buy the mrs something.... hang on I forgot all the shops are closed!! Ok, we'll go and look and the curve instead. "Oooooooh that's nice" say the delegates, "Hang on is that a swingers club over the road? Are they prostitutes I can see just down the road".

They wait for 75 minutes to catch a bus so they can see "The Golden Mile"... when they finally get there they discover it's really nothing special. Unless of course you like 500 takeaways on one road.

Maybe they could see what activites the city offers its residents. Maybe an ice rink? Maybe a concert featuring a good band? Maybe a Leisure Centre?... No sorry none of that. The concert venues are all closing to build more student flats, the Leisure centres all closed down, no ice rink either... you can go and watch an amateur dramatics group do a shit play though in the half empty Curve.

Do you get out much you could say the above about almost every major city in the uk.