I was agreeing with you that it makes a big difference when a team like Germany is involved.
Some games you can certainly buy tickets for outside of the ground, but as said it does depend if one of the well supported teams are involved....
Just because I want to say something positive (for a change) I do think that UEFA have put together a better system for this than the London...
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Correct. I honestly find it hard to take any of this bias stuff seriously. Almost every club in the world has some fans that think the world is...
I wouldn't call it greed, it's just the natural contradiction that you have with a system like this. If you only put a bid in for games you...
Sensible points. The point about your domestic league having to accommodate a World Cup in June is a good one. As a European I think we often have...
That's not even remotely close to the point I was making, but well done on identifying that it's stupid. The point is that this stuff about...
I agree. Also it's worth saying that many countries already disrupt their leagues to accommodate the World Cup. We perhaps have a tendency in...
It's exaggerating the argument to make a point. The point being that far too much of this stuff is the tired old "everyone's corrupt except us"...
It seems a simple enough point - if all the votes were being bought and the US received 8 of the 22 votes, then they must be bribing people as well.
Feel free to state precisely what it is you disagree with.
I'm not trying to do anything of the sort. I'm asking for a bit of common sense instead of jumping on a bandwagon that, as yet, is almost entirely...
It's not an "are FIFA the greatest thing since sliced bread" debate, it's a simple question of perspective. It's a rampant exaggeration to go from...
Predictable comment - which is why I posted that in the first place. Geoff Thompson (England's ExCo member), whilst criticising the process,...
All of the bids for 2022 were developing markets - none of them are saturated markets like those in Europe/South America, where football has been...
As I said I don't want this to turn into a debate on whether Australia or Qatar are better development opportunities. My point was simply that...
I'm not necessarily here to dispute whether Australia is a better "new market" than Qatar/the Middle East. The burden would be on you to prove why...
Well, maybe, but it's been known for some time that FIFA wanted to take football into new markets. The "continent rotation" policy, for instance,...
The thing I don't understand in some of these conspiracy theories about bribes and shady dealings is how it ties in with the article at the start...
If you look at Spain's World Cup (in the knockout rounds at least) the games were typified by them dominating possession, but struggling to...
I don't think anything major is going to happen to be honest. They might get enough support for minor changes to the bidding process like earlier...
It's actually two British votes that would be required because they need a 6-2 majority. In video technology it was England and Scotland that...
For a start, none of the proposed Australian host cities were located in NT or anywhere close to Indonesia - the closest was Townsville which is...
Who are Australia's neighbours, for instance? New Zealand (roughly 1,000 miles away)? That's not even the issue, though. The proximity to other...