there’s no mandate that 2018-2026 will be shared between europe, asia and north america. it’s just logic that dictates this, as these regions share the wealth.

on the topic of london, they are proposing 4 london-based stadiums; wembley, emirates, olympic, and new white hart lane. also putting forward anfield, stanley park and kirkby from liverpool. unlikely they’d use more than 2 and 1 from london and liverpool respectively, just shows there’s no problem with putting forward multiple options to let fifa choose from.

1. Which will make FIFA more money in TV rights and sponsorship (USA having bigger stadiums does not come into it, the host nation will keep most of the ticket sales). A WC screened in USA prime time or one screened in Asian prime time?

2. Which of the bidding (not China, India etc, they are not bidding) Asian nations presents a more compelling case than Australia?

cheers.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/2009InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_newsfeatures_newsitem_new&id=31032

Rudd still spruiking Australia’s bid. If australia misses out it wont be from lack of trying.

I noticed Gordon Brown was also spruiking to Warner

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I don’t think Australia will have any problems with these sorts of guarantees – our public administration (which is what is covering off all of these) are world class – you should know that coming from Canberra!!

http://www.sa2010.gov.za/en/guarantees

I would really love to go thru the bid book to see what else is required. I believe its 1200 pages long though !!

England will have zero trouble coming up with the requisite stadiums – they could host the damn thing tomorrow.

The England bid has nominated 3 stadia in London.

Parramatta is legaly it’s own city, we can massage some borders to get it in.

Same with the ovals. They can put signage or paint the spare grass with sponsers logos, then it’s $$$ vs Spectator comfort.

The power of positive thinking, which thankfully might be enough because most of the non euro bids look pretty shaky and even the Us bid team has struggled funding wise. after missing out on the olympics Obama supports the bid for the world cup but he hasn’t let them use his credit card.

So it’s a waste of time referring to 2002 and 2010 – they both represent ancient history.

I believe only one city can have two stadiums.

If that’s true, a few of your stadiums end up getting knocked on the head.

There need to be 8 host cities – I can only count five cities in the examples you gave.

Why would I want your comment about the AGE deleted ? – was there something meant to be offensive about it ? If there was , it totally went over the my head !

In fact I have absolutely no idea what the point of your comment was ?????

I have never asked for anyones comment to be deleted ! – is it possible to do that ?t

Plus we have have another 8 stadia that hold over 40K –
AAMI Stadium – 52K
Queensland Athletic Stadium – 49K
Gabba Brisbane – 42K
Suncorp Brisbane – 53K
Etihad Stadium – 57K
Sydney Cricket Ground – 44K
Sydney Football Stadium – 46K
Subiaco Oval – 42K

No need to spend billions if you don’t want to.

Although governments use the World Cup as an excuse to create jobs and improve infrastructure and are willing to outlay the money for the benefits, as we did for the 2000 Olympics which gave us the Sydney Olympic complex and untold sporting and recreation facilities and a whole new suburb of Sydney.

If we did win a WC bid I wonder where the opening ceremony, opening game, final and closing ceremony would be played.
It would be fought out between Sydney and Melbourne.

Personally I think it would be much better if all this effort went into building the ailing A League.

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Cheers for now

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