Too many hooligans On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Will Swain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes, that would be the generous way to look at it. :) > > > > I can accept the Russian decision, although they have to do a lot of work > to > get their house in order pre 2018. But Qatar is a really odd one that makes > very little sense, unless the intention really is to award to people who > have never held it before. > > > > By the way, the England bid for 2018, which was marked as being the most > impressive of the bids by FIFAs technical committee, received only 2 votes > out of 22. Bearing in mind one of those votes would have been the England > representative, that means in reality our bid got 1 vote. Which is amazing. > > > > From: Vivec [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 December 2010 17:27 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Russia wins 2018 World Cup hosting > > > > > > Uhh...they really did award it to Qatar? I thought that was a joke. > Good grief. > > Well..I guess part of it is about spreading the influence of FIFA and > Football to new areas of the world? > > On 2 December 2010 13:05, Will Swain <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Worse than Russia winning by far is the decision to award to Qatar. A > > country with no footballing pedigree at all, with a population less than > > the > > total number of spectators at this years world cup. This highlights how > > corrupt FIFA has become IMO. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332354 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
