Thread: Aussie's hopes dashed.

Welcome onto the stage....stand at the back with the other newbies....

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Can't argue with that....well...maybe the middle bit, but certainly adjacent...ish.

Thanks Bob. That coming from you is certainly a step forward in your character recovery programe.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Despite not actually being a continent.

I'll forgive that fluff as you are a Pom.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

It is a continent, which then makes it impossible to be in the middle of Asia.

Well where is located on the globe Bob? Merthr Tidwell?

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Jeez, LT gets muddled when emotional doesn't he?

I don't really give a tinkers cus about wogball mate but the staging of the world cup would of done a lot for the our Southern European Aussies down under not to mention the Asian Aussies.

The mere fact that Australia is the perfect place to stage any sporting event year round they should hold all world sporting tournaments there.

Their presentation was shite in my opinion but that doesn't change the fact the world deserves to see this event played Down Under.

EXTREMISTS welcomed FIFA's decision to have Qatar host the 2022 World Cup, predicting Al-Qaeda will establish an "Islamic State" in the Gulf region in the coming years, monitors said.

"You fools, know that Al-Qaeda is on the threshold of establishing the shariah (Islamic law) of Allah the Almighty," a user who went by the name Hafeed al-Hussein posted on the Shumukh al-Islam online forum, according to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group.

"And who knows, Allah may empower al-Qaeda so that it takes control of matters after a year or two, or five years at most.

"In 2022, there is no country with the name Qatar, and there is no province called Kuwait and there is no Saudi (Arabia). Instead, there is an emirate called the Islamic State," the post added.

After an agonising final day of presentations and furious lobbying in Zurich, FIFA head Sepp Blatter earlier announced Qatar as tournament hosts in 2022 - over the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia - while Russia beat off competition from England, Spain/Portugal and Netherlands/Belgium to host the 2018 World Cup.

"By 2022, Qatar will not exist with permission from Allah. Instead, there will be the Islamic State of Qatar under the Islamic Caliphate established by Sheikh Osama bin Laden in 2017," Juleibib al-Irhabi wrote.

One of his colleagues, Abu Yassin, predicted that insurgents in the Russian Caucasus - where attacks on officials have become daily occurrences as Russian authorities battle the fighters - would help spell Qatar's downfall.

"In 2018, Russia will organise (the games) and the brothers in the emirate of the Caucasus, with permission from Allah, will make a case to cancel Qatar's" games, he wrote.

Another who called himself Abu Khubeib al-Khorasani said 2022 will be the "most exciting" World Cup final, predicting that Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo would be kidnapped and Al-Qaeda would win the tournament.

Extremists welcome Qatar World Cup, predict Al-Qaeda takeover and Ronaldo kidnapping | News.com.au


Great to see these foks getting rewarded with the greatest sporting show on earth

What a bunch of foking cretins are FIFA. There should be a mutiny at that place.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/d...f-fifas-greed/

Qatar's World Cup victory shows full extent of Fifa's greed

How would you like a World Cup held in one city? How about if we make that city so hot it constitutes a health risk, say 50 degrees?

Right, what if we air-condition everything, heck have the whole competition indoors? Can we make sure it’s an uncomfortable place for women, gays and Jews too please? No, problem, Fifa have delivered. Welcome to Qatar 2022.

You have to admire the chutzpah – not a word to use at immigration – of Qatar for even bidding for the thing. That they have won it is depressing. In their technical assessment, Qatar was deemed the highest risk. Then the Executive Committee voted for it.

Russia hosting a World Cup in 2018 is a risk. There are huge issues the country needs to tackle, the most serious of which are social rather than those of infrastructure. Qatar, though, does not really have a coherent society to restructure. The country has one city, Doha, which I visited this time last year when England played Brazil in friendly. It is fine if you’ve got money, a high boredom threshold and live in one of the steel and glass skyscrapers that rear out of the desert.

Less nice if you are one of the migrant workers from South Asia who live in grim conditions on the outskirts of town and are bussed in every day to build the things.

Of the 1.7 million people estimated to live in the country only 200,000 are native Qataris. The rest are expats and migrant workers. According to a UN refugee agency report from two years ago the Qatari government “does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so.”

Trying to get a beer after game? You need your passport to access one of the exclusive and extortionate hotel bars. You have to travel everywhere by taxi.

Like all the Emirates, it is an ideal playground for those who like spending money and privacy. Oh and the football team? Qatar didn’t get out of the group stages at the Gulf Cup.

There is no doubt Qatar will come through on the money, there is no doubt that they have had some impressive people pushing their cause. Bringing football to the Middle East is brave, of course, and there is no doubting the generous hospitality of the region (for some guests).

But this is not a new frontier like South Africa was. This is a small wealthy country, many of whose citizens can afford to go an watch a World Cup wherever it is held. The only thing that seemed to be in its favour – aside of course from vast wealth – was that the TV rights will be more lucrative near a European time zone.

In reality, Fifa has long put money ahead of football. Qatar 2022 marks the moment they stopped pretending otherwise.

Putin sent all of committee a white envelope, no money in it just a scrap of paper with Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's name on it , no wonder Russia won.

i've checked out and read LT's.
i think it's an absolute disgrace
that qatar got to be host
crazy.
if it has been achieved by corrupt means then it is outragious .
and another ballot be held without the corruption.
as for the beer scene ,,,i'm gobsmacked.
i don't see how these awards can stand for russia or qatar now.
it's criminal activity.

LT

I've never heard of Merthyr Tidwell so I cannot talk about it's location in relation to the continent of Australia.

I can however tell you that Australia is to the South East of Asia, which is in the Northern Hemisphere. Australia as you well know (as an Anglo Saxon that lived there) is in the Southern Hemisphere. So I guess it can't be in the middle of somewhere that it is not in the same Hemisphere as..... n'est pa?

Winners: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, left, and Sheika Mozah bint Nasser al-Misned hold the World Cup trophy

They are playing the Asian Cup in Qatar next month and the focus will be on a possible meeting between the home nation, host of the 2022 World Cup, and Australia, whose bid was contemptuously rejected. But here's a thing; the reason they are playing the Asian Cup in January is because Qatar in July - the usual date for the tournament - is considered so hot as to be genuinely dangerous. And in which month are the finals of the World Cup usually played? You've got it. Another triumph for Sepp and the Incorruptibles.

Qatar: a medieval emirate with a despicable record on human rights and an average July high of 115 degrees Fahrenheit. And oil revenues. Squillions of oil money, which played absolutely no part in FIFA's deliberations.

Originally Posted by The Cat

Dont players get a 1 game ban for that, it's called bring the game into disrepute giving the finger at the opposing supporters

Now here's a man who know's what he's talking about Sir Alex had a few words to say about this.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has branded FIFA's decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia an 'insult' to English football.

The legendary Scot spoke out after England received only two votes in Zurich.

Ferguson said: 'I thought England had a good chance because the infrastructure of the country is good.

It's an insult! Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has hit out at FIFA

'It’s easy to travel. The stadiums are fantastic and England have the best league in Europe together with a great fan base. And the insult is to only get two votes.

'That’s the real disappointment. But what England need to do now is just hold up their heads and know they’ve done their best.

Ferguson has strongly criticised the committee culture within FIFA, one which left England humiliated in front of the watching world.

'There’s no point taking it any further because nothing can be done,' he said. 'Once you’ve got committees that are impenetrable, you can’t do anything about them.


From Russia with love: Blatter reveals the hosts of the 2018 World Cup


'I suppose it’s possible England might not get a World Cup until the system changes because in my experience of committees if there are say, six people, then one or two personalities are more powerful than the rest and can sway the rest.

'That’s the problem with committees. Whether it’s football, business, politics or sports clubs – that’s how they work.

'So, unless every country gets a single vote and you don’t have a committee system, you’d have to think that it might not be fair enough. That’s the only thing I can think of.'

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Despite not actually being a continent. I must've missed the Antarctic World Cup too...[/quote]

It s only a matter of time. There is already a team of penguins playing in Pittsburgh on a regular basis.

Originally Posted by The Cat

Great for beach volleyball so who cares about the corruption?