Thread: Britain Diminished

Originally Posted by keda

how many of the millions entering Britain for the Olympics next year, won't be going back home in a hurry?

32, or would you prefer more?

^Qatar has a population of around 200,000 only about 25,000 are Qataris. There's only one town to speak of Doha which has been built up from an old fishing village, so where do they intend to hold the group stages? Will they build stadiums at a fixed distance from each other in the desert and bus in their Pakistani indentured slaves to act as a crowd?

Don't bother expecting a drink before the game. When I was there there were 4 licensed bars, three in hotels and one was the rugby club.

When will they hold this? The temperatures in August are in the 50's that's centigrade not farenheit. You need to carry a liter of water just to cross the road without suffering dehydration.

Could be fun though, pissed off supporters punching out the arabs who try to push past them in the airport check in queues, something I was always tempted to do.

This is a $$$ decision nothing to do with football.

England should have got it.

As should the US.

But as Blatter and his FIFA colleagues are as corrupt as the come, money won. A pity really.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

They promised to vote for Germany 2010

Germany never bid for 2010.... the bidding process for 2010 was only open to African nations....

Sorry, I was so happy about the good news. I meant 2006.

Originally Posted by The Dumbold Rodney

Never forgiven us for knocking you out of the World Cup, ha ha ha

Not realy if you look at the FIFA World Ranking. How many times have you held up that Trophy or at least get second place ?


P.S. Change your Avitar to a more sutable name please!

Originally Posted by blue

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

Originally Posted by HermantheWanker

(Serves them Limeys right ! They promised to vote for Germany 2010...but did not. I'am VERY amused !)

P.S. Change your Avitar to a more sutable name please!

well his avatar is ok , but you are right his user name could be smartened up,
how about
''Manfred von Richthofen'' ? or even'' the red baron'' ?

and have this avatar



or this old photo of herman as a 6 year old

Thank God it didn't have a Rolls Royce Engine.

Originally Posted by KOBRIEN

I was looking forward to having the World Cup in England ! Anyone who was there for Euro 96 can understand ! The premier league is the most watched league in the world,Reason ?

Because of a Taxsystem that benefits the players salary. England bankrupt vs foreign players millionaires. Are you realy proud ? WM 2006 was bigger and better.

no where in the world compete's with England !

Get off your horse, Jeeeezuz !!! Watch the wedding next year. WM2006 was one of the best.

I cannot believe that dirty Russian money has not been at play here,If there was an ideal candidate after England then it would have been Spain.Same goes for the arab Country for 2022 !

Who owns Englands Clubs ??

If it was about fairness then Australia would have won this bid,I cannot believe that an Arab country would welcome over a million farangs all aiming to get pissed out that face all day ! Can see a few spending time in prison for very minor crimes !

Agree

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Britain diminished...LOL

Really?

Because we didn't get the World Cup.

Hmmm, Okay....I think the headline might be a little bit over the top....just maybe....

I'm more interested in how much the Russians and Arabs stumped up. As it seems to be that football nowadays is riddled with corruption.

America also failed in its bid....where's the misleading headline about that I wonder...?

Got to get your attention somehow !
Its not easy competing with Weaky Leaks. And with these Teakdoor Geezers running away to the competition, you need a headline puncher. To get their adreline flow going.

Plus it's always good fun to have a dig at the old enemy

Glad England lost,the pictures of Cameron face and Prince William worth every pound lost in the bid.
Qatar 2022,hope things improve with Al Qaeda and the Taliban by then.
Other wise might be a bit of bother loads of westerners on home soil.
Boom,lots of nice easy targets for suicide bombers.

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Thank God it didn't have a Rolls Royce Engine.

Indeed, if it had it could have challenged the Spitfire or the more successful yet less credited Hurricane or even the P-51 Mustang which thanks to the Merlin engine shot down numerous German fighters during WWII.

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

West Ham beating MU 4 - 0 the other night

I am a West Ham fan and even though our league form is shite Magical grant still
has them doing the business in the Carling Cup ! Anyone know any news about any t.v show / Bar thats showing the semi's in Pattaya ! Got True vision but they only have the rights for the league ??

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Get off your horse, Jeeeezuz !!! Watch the wedding next year. WM2006 was one of the best.

So what country in your eyes offers the most entertaining football ?

Originally Posted by Begbie

^Qatar has a population of around 200,000 only about 25,000 are Qataris. There's only one town to speak of Doha which has been built up from an old fishing village, so where do they intend to hold the group stages? Will they build stadiums at a fixed distance from each other in the desert and bus in their Pakistani indentured slaves to act as a crowd?

Don't bother expecting a drink before the game. When I was there there were 4 licensed bars, three in hotels and one was the rugby club.

When will they hold this? The temperatures in August are in the 50's that's centigrade not farenheit. You need to carry a liter of water just to cross the road without suffering dehydration.

Could be fun though, pissed off supporters punching out the arabs who try to push past them in the airport check in queues, something I was always tempted to do.

This is a $$$ decision nothing to do with football.

Absolutely riddled with inaccuracies.

The population is over 1.5M, with probably 5-600,000 Qataris.

There are licensed bars and restaurants all over; the Qataris have said there will be public drinking available in Fan Zones - they wouldn't have got it otherwise due to Sponsor pressure.

They host Moto GP, ATP Tennis, Tour Golf and they've spent a fortune on the Asian Games.

They will have air-conditioned stadia, all with an hour of each other, and they demonstrated one to the organisers (do you think they didn't know it's fucking hot in the Gulf in the summer FFS?).

They'll have to build a few more hotels, and they'll probably hire some cruise ships like Moscow did for the Champions League final.

They are more than capable of hosting the tournament, and will throw money at it. Add to this the fact that FIFA's team will already be making arrangements to put a project team in place to supervise the whole thing - they've had plenty of practice.

Who was president when you were last in Doha? Nixon?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Begbie

^Qatar has a population of around 200,000 only about 25,000 are Qataris. There's only one town to speak of Doha which has been built up from an old fishing village, so where do they intend to hold the group stages? Will they build stadiums at a fixed distance from each other in the desert and bus in their Pakistani indentured slaves to act as a crowd?

Don't bother expecting a drink before the game. When I was there there were 4 licensed bars, three in hotels and one was the rugby club.

When will they hold this? The temperatures in August are in the 50's that's centigrade not farenheit. You need to carry a liter of water just to cross the road without suffering dehydration.

Could be fun though, pissed off supporters punching out the arabs who try to push past them in the airport check in queues, something I was always tempted to do.

This is a $$$ decision nothing to do with football.

Absolutely riddled with inaccuracies.

The population is over 1.5M, with probably 5-600,000 Qataris.

There are licensed bars and restaurants all over; the Qataris have said there will be public drinking available in Fan Zones - they wouldn't have got it otherwise due to Sponsor pressure.

They host Moto GP, ATP Tennis, Tour Golf and they've spent a fortune on the Asian Games.

They will have air-conditioned stadia, all with an hour of each other, and they demonstrated one to the organisers (do you think they didn't know it's fucking hot in the Gulf in the summer FFS?).

They'll have to build a few more hotels, and they'll probably hire some cruise ships like Moscow did for the Champions League final.

They are more than capable of hosting the tournament, and will throw money at it. Add to this the fact that FIFA's team will already be making arrangements to put a project team in place to supervise the whole thing - they've had plenty of practice.

Who was president when you were last in Doha? Nixon?

Well I did work there for three years, so I bow to you better informed opinions.

There were only 25,000 Qataris back in 2004 and the population was 200,000 most of the rest being Pakistani labourers. I do know they were importing Yemenis and calling them Qataris plus the average family (all on benefits had at least 10 kids) so it's not beyond reason that they could have increased their population somewhat.

As posted on another thread...

Those photos prove the Qataris should host the World Cup. Spectacular.

To Hell with proper, devoted football fans from nations that have a huge supporter base and are more capable and deserving than some Middle-Eastern backwater without enough cities to host semi-finals let alone group stages.

Qatar, with its pub standard domestic league and absolutely no tradition of playing the beautiful game, coupled with a minnow international team that has never qualified for the World Cup, are surely deserving of hosting this prestigious event.

It is their turn.

wow if Quatar only has a pub standard league, that puts australia in the boys club leagueaustralia has not got the facilities and they have no idea how to care for a pitch, the large cities have some decent stadiums but the pitches are like a ploughed field after a couple of games,as a welshman living in aus my only memories of decent soccer, were watching Klaus Fischer ,stan libuda,little fat gerd muller, netzer ,hoeness play football in the bundesliga in the 70,s world cup should have gone not to germany but to SCHALKE )$

Nostradamus,

I'm not disputing Qatar should not have the tournament. I'm merely pointing out that they are more than capable of hosting it. Probably more than the Russkies.

The English bid team are saying they went to bed with lots of people having told them they'd get their vote. But they refuse to name them.

15 million quid down the toilet then.

Well I did work there for three years, so I bow to you better informed opinions.

I was there last week. So I think my information is a little bit more current.

You wouldn't even recognise the place now.

Originally Posted by KOBRIEN

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

West Ham beating MU 4 - 0 the other night

I am a West Ham fan and even though our league form is shite Magical grant still
has them doing the business in the Carling Cup ! Anyone know any news about any t.v show / Bar thats showing the semi's in Pattaya ! Got True vision but they only have the rights for the league ??

Look at the back page of the Bangkok Post on the day of the match. They will probably show these matches on Thai TV.