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psgmariner
December 2, 2010, 9:54pm

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There may be a little bit of sour grapes there but come on, its justified. The extent of our loss is obviously down to politics, as a lot of these worldwide voting contests are.

It's become very apparent over the last several years that for whatever reason, the British are not very well liked around the world. Doesn't it seem funny that the Holland - Belgium vote received 4 votes in the first round and then two of their voters suddenly switched to Russia in the second?

People are gonna blame Panorama for this and I agree that their timing was terrible but there shouldn't be a hate campaign against them for doing the right thing and trying to expose FIFA. I just hope they go all the way with their investigation now and if they manage to dig some dirt on them then losing this bid will probably be worth it in the long run because it will help the game.
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don't you all think it's a bit bent how sky sports news knew the results before they were announced?


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Quoted from Mariner Ronnie
don't you all think it's a bit bent how sky sports news knew the results before they were announced?


Think they tell those knocked out in the 1st round that they did not make it through so someone in the England camp leaked it.


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There may be a little bit of sour grapes there but come on, its justified. The extent of our loss is obviously down to politics, as a lot of these worldwide voting contests are.

It's become very apparent over the last several years that for whatever reason, the British are not very well liked around the world. Doesn't it seem funny that the Holland - Belgium vote received 4 votes in the first round and then two of their voters suddenly switched to Russia in the second?

People are gonna blame Panorama for this and I agree that their timing was terrible but there shouldn't be a hate campaign against them for doing the right thing and trying to expose FIFA. I just hope they go all the way with their investigation now and if they manage to dig some dirt on them then losing this bid will probably be worth it in the long run because it will help the game.


Fair point but am struggling to believe people are surprised that politics comes in to it.

FIFA want to expand the game and choosing. Russia (a MASSIVE untapped market) over us makes sense in that respect.



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didn't fifa want the world cup to go to countries who would need to redevelop in order to leave a legacy?  (nearly) all our stadia are already built so we had very little to do and very little would change.  on top of all the infighting (triesman, richards, brady, watmore) it's not surprising that we lost, and lost badly.  just because we're english does not give us a divine right to host the world cup over everyone else

and we tried to bribe the voting committee with handbags!
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Quoted from psgmariner


Fair point but am struggling to believe people are surprised that politics comes in to it.

FIFA want to expand the game and choosing. Russia (a MASSIVE untapped market) over us makes sense in that respect.



maybe they should have made this clear before england ,holland spain ect wasted millions bidding for it then !
this was a stitch up ,i dont believe we should ever get involved with this stinking organisation again
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anybody know what the reaction has been in iberia, usa and oz, coz they've been turned over even more than we have?
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anybody know what the reaction has been in iberia, usa and oz, coz they've been turned over even more than we have?

I think they feel just about the same as us

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/qatar-wins-2022-world-cup-australia-first-eliminated-20101203-18ifa.html

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At least 2 of those countries have held the tournament comparatively recently though.

One question to my mind was if the World Cup is supposed to be shared around countries, a fair enough ideal, then why where South Korea even bothering to lobby for the 2022?
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