Xela Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 On 29/09/2022 at 22:42, penguin said: Why the **** are we allowing the World Cup to be played in this hell hole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 On 30/09/2022 at 11:22, bannedfromHandV said: How do we think the police out there are going to cope with a horde of drunken English fans? Assuming that they will be able to get their hands on some alcohol of course. Tbh I wouldn't be too upset if they get machine-gunned with rubber pellets en masse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 2, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Mic09 said: Look at Olympic games. More athletes, more infrastructure needed. It would be possible to hold a world cup in London or a well organised German land like Westphalia. It's entirely possible in a place where infrastructure is already in place or maybe 2 new stadiums need to be built. More athletes… thousands and thousands and thousands less fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Stevo985 said: More athletes… thousands and thousands and thousands less fans Let's say one city of 10 million people like London holds 3 games a day. All in different locations across a huge city, stadiums miles apart from ach other. Each stadium having excellent transport links. Each team has (generously) 30k fans in the stadium, and an additional 50k to visit the city and spread throughout pubs and fan zones. Do you think London couldn't take it? It's entirely possible to hold a world cup in London, no problem. In fact, it might be an easier option to organise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 17 minutes ago, Mic09 said: Let's say one city of 10 million people like London holds 3 games a day. All in different locations across a huge city, stadiums miles apart from ach other. Each stadium having excellent transport links. Each team has (generously) 30k fans in the stadium, and an additional 50k to visit the city and spread throughout pubs and fan zones. Do you think London couldn't take it? It's entirely possible to hold a world cup in London, no problem. In fact, it might be an easier option to organise. That might be a bit optimistic. I'd imagine there be colossal problems. Throw enough money at it and some might be solved of course. Pretty much no other city in the world than London could thou. And for safety reasons I'd go no where near London if they did have it. Counting Twickenham London has 6 stadiums that meets the minimum FIFA requirements for the WC. With the ever expanding FIFA WC with more nations and more games the number of fans will easily pass the 3.5 million mark or so from the previous big WC's. Obviously they will not all stay for the whole tournament but that's a lot of hotel beds and stress on transport, hospitals, airports and so on. And especially police. Just gotta hope that nothing else happens in London for a month in the middle of summer. They might wanna move Wimbledon for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 34 minutes ago, Mic09 said: Let's say one city of 10 million people like London holds 3 games a day. All in different locations across a huge city, stadiums miles apart from ach other. Each stadium having excellent transport links. Each team has (generously) 30k fans in the stadium, and an additional 50k to visit the city and spread throughout pubs and fan zones. Do you think London couldn't take it? It's entirely possible to hold a world cup in London, no problem. In fact, it might be an easier option to organise. But where is FIFAs legacy in that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 2, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2022 2 hours ago, Mic09 said: Let's say one city of 10 million people like London holds 3 games a day. All in different locations across a huge city, stadiums miles apart from ach other. Each stadium having excellent transport links. Each team has (generously) 30k fans in the stadium, and an additional 50k to visit the city and spread throughout pubs and fan zones. Do you think London couldn't take it? It's entirely possible to hold a world cup in London, no problem. In fact, it might be an easier option to organise. I think even London would struggle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted October 2, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2022 12 hours ago, VillaJ100 said: Yeah I had a friend who lived there. They said most bars are in hotels but it's illegal to have had a drink in public. So if you go to a hotel bar for a drink, if you try and leave the bar staff will ring police who will be waiting outside to arrest even if you're walking from the front door to the taxi as you've had a drink in public. So got no choice but to stay the night in the hotel. Wasn't like that in Abu Dhabi. You had to drink in hotels, but there was no problem getting taxis etc home. Is Qatar much more hard-line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 5 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: Wasn't like that in Abu Dhabi. You had to drink in hotels, but there was no problem getting taxis etc home. Is Qatar much more hard-line? I don't think so. I think its just a legalised scam the hotels do to earn a few quid as a night out costs a room for the night too. This is going back about 10 years though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 It’s utterly irresponsible of Gary Linekar to say he personally knows two gay Premier League players and hopes they “come out” during the World Cup. Do you want them imprisoned you crisp-shilling pillock? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 56 minutes ago, The_Steve said: It’s utterly irresponsible of Gary Linekar to say he personally knows two gay Premier League players and hopes they “come out” during the World Cup. Do you want them imprisoned you crisp-shilling pillock? Forget the WC angle it's completely irresponsible for him to say he knows 2 gay players in the PL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Just now, villa4europe said: Forget the WC angle it's completely irresponsible for him to say he knows 2 gay players in the PL Yes that too, I was so mad about his comments that I forgot to mention that. How dare he. What a cretin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 3 hours ago, The_Steve said: It’s utterly irresponsible of Gary Linekar to say he personally knows two gay Premier League players and hopes they “come out” during the World Cup. Do you want them imprisoned you crisp-shilling pillock? If he believed half the stuff he said, he wouldn't even be going to Qatar as a pundit. Same as Neville, talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 This is gonna be one of the worst cups in history 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 On 02/10/2022 at 08:20, villa4europe said: But where is FIFAs legacy in that? By legacy you mean mass construction projects which are incredibly easy to skim off from into your corrupt pockets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 10 hours ago, VillaJ100 said: By legacy you mean mass construction projects which are incredibly easy to skim off from into your corrupt pockets? That no one will use afterwards? Yep They love that shit, IOC are exactly the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Someone managed to smuggle out films from the living quarters for the people who work at the luxury resort where France will stay for the WC. Even Steve Bruce would be embarrassed if his tenants had to live like that. Then the president of the French FA (who looks exactly as you expect him to look) goes on interview and says it's all fine, just needs a lick of paint. Bit of a faux pas and he's now in a bit of trouble. France and Qatar are pretty much one now so don't expect them to be too critical at high level. Qatar is pretty much a gilded turd, but that's not really news is it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 On 30/09/2022 at 10:51, Stevo985 said: Imagine if there was no backhanders involved. Imagine a country submitting their bid to FIFA. Never been to world cup. No footballing pedigree or history. Physically unable to play football matches during the period the world cup will be played because of extreme heat Nowhere near enough stadia Not enough cities to host all of the teams Not enough hotels to host the fans No infrastructure to support a competition of this scale Massive human rights issues Questionable (at best) regime Seriously if there was no dodgy money involved, you'd get laughed out of the room. Luxembourg would probably be better prepared than Qatar to host this Do Qatar even have a league recognised by FIFA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Who’s going to boycott the 2026 world Cup too? Love the hypocrisy. Quote The US continued to supply the bulk of arms, exporting 88 percent of all arms sold to Saudi Arabia in 2018. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/5/13/saudi-arabia-the-worlds-largest-arms-importer-from-2014-2018 Quote State Department clears weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department on Tuesday cleared possible foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency…. Saudi Arabia has historically played an outsized role in foreign military sales for the U.S. defense industry. The lead importer of U.S.-made weapons, Saudi Arabia bought 23% of all U.S. weapons sold between 2017 and 2021, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute…….. https://www.defensenews.com/2022/08/02/state-department-clears-weapons-sales-to-saudi-arabia-uae/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 I feel like we're being robbed of a World Cup. This is just not going to be an authentic World Cup. Bring on North America 2026, f*ck Qatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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