Englands World Cup Bid Presentation

[6BMW]

Quite impressive! What did you think?

[Puggit]

As someone who presents for a living - that was cracking!

I can't see anyone topping our presentation or technical merits. Sadly I suspect we haven't bribed the Fifa execs at all

[central]

[anonymous-user]

Aren't the Russians going to get it?

They're quite generous with the cash and said there's no corruption in FIFA at all.

[Jonny671]

I didn't see it, will watch it later.. I read though that the Panorama program that the BBC made about FIFA corruption won't help us out.

[rich1231]

is it available abywhere to watch now?

[central]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9247651.s...

[Silver993tt]

I personally think that Spain & Portugal should host the tournament. They need the economic boost more than teh others plus thay have an existing fantastic infrastructure plus the flare to run such an event.

On the other hand, Russia and the eastern part of Europe have never help a world cup tournament, while Europe has done many times, so they have a good reason to host it.

Edited by Silver993tt on Thursday 2nd December 11:22

[Jonny671]

I personally think we should get it. We've got the stadiums and I bet out of every single World Cup team, atleast 1-2 of them will play in the premier league.

David Beckham done well on his speech eh.

[Asterix]

I thought it was excellent - Very impressed by the young lad who works for Man City and David Beckham was extremely professional and spoke well (as did Cameron and HRH but I expected them to).

If the bid was chosen on merit then we'd stand a very good chance - however, we know that's the bit with the least influence.

Edited by Asterix on Thursday 2nd December 11:42

[im]

It's our bloody turn!!!

Spain had it in 1982!

the Germans have had it twice since we last had it, 1974 and 2006!

The US are favourites for 2022 and they had it in 1994! And they don't even like bloody football.

Oh, and did I say...

It's our bloody turn!!!

[Big Raff]

Very good presentation, ol' DB did a sterling job, and having just watched what appeared to be the Russian acceptance ceremony I think we have a great chance!

Saying that, some of the places in Russia look pretty fantastic...though it is hard to get round my head that although it would probably be a good place to donate a visa to an up and coming stripper, it is still 8 years away!!

Edited by Big Raff on Thursday 2nd December 11:45

[Drive Blind]

Russia should get it - they've never hosted it.

Hope England don't get it - the media overload will be unbearable if they do

[Jonny671]

Drive Blind said:

Russia should get it - they've never hosted it.

Hope England don't get it - the media overload will be unbearable if they do

[Silver993tt]

Drive Blind said:

Russia should get it - they've never hosted it.

Hope England don't get it - the media overload will be unbearable if they do

well, they'll estimate something like £2 billion and 2 years later it will have gone up to £6 billion and then 2 years before it's due to start it'll be £9 billion - just like the olympics.

With regards to Russia, I agree, it would be great to see how such a large and varied culture would host something like this. They have the cash to do it so I think it would be superb, a very underated country.

It would be nice to see the tournament outside of the traditional 'stuffy' countries. I remember that Japan/Korea held a superb event.

[madcyril]

fingers x

[Beardy10]

Thought the presentation was very good.....not a fan of politicians per se but Cameron was very good, thank god it wasn't Gordon Brown!

Putin's mud slinging yesterday was interesting...

[TEKNOPUG]

Silver993tt said:

Drive Blind said:

Russia should get it - they've never hosted it.

Hope England don't get it - the media overload will be unbearable if they do

well, they'll estimate something like £2 billion and 2 years later it will have gone up to £6 billion and then 2 years before it's due to start it'll be £9 billion - just like the olympics.

Yeah, think of all the stadiums that we'd have to build! Then all the costs that would be incurred actually getting fans to the ground. Then think of how the hell would we ever be able to police all the games?!?!?! We'd never be able to get all the journalists and commentary teams and camera crews to the right place and on time. It would be a logistical nightmare!! It's gonna costs billions to organise!!!



Actually it won't, will it. Because we hold a World Cup in this country every Saturday - it's called the "Football Season".

We could hold the World Cup next week. Everything is in place. Everything is built. Everything works.

It is absolutely nothing like holding the Olympics.

[pokethepope]

TEKNOPUG said:

Silver993tt said:

Drive Blind said:

Russia should get it - they've never hosted it.

Hope England don't get it - the media overload will be unbearable if they do

well, they'll estimate something like £2 billion and 2 years later it will have gone up to £6 billion and then 2 years before it's due to start it'll be £9 billion - just like the olympics.

Yeah, think of all the stadiums that we'd have to build! Then all the costs that would be incurred actually getting fans to the ground. Then think of how the hell would we ever be able to police all the games?!?!?! We'd never be able to get all the journalists and commentary teams and camera crews to the right place and on time. It would be a logistical nightmare!! It's gonna costs billions to organise!!!



Actually it won't, will it. Because we hold a World Cup in this country every Saturday - it's called the "Football Season".

We could hold the World Cup next week. Everything is in place. Everything is built. Everything works.

It is absolutely nothing like holding the Olympics.

+ infinity.

I was getting ready to cringe when DB stepped up to the podium clearing his throat and heavy breathing very audible, but he did a magnificant job of it.

[tamore]

we could drop a world cup tournament into england at 2 weeks notice. just about everything is in place already. no team would have to travel more than 60 mins by air. no timezone malarkey.

enough of the social engineering experiments like the SA tournament.