England lose World Cup 2018 vote
Thursday 2nd December 2010, 3:37PM GMT.
England this afternoon lost its bid to host the 2018 football World Cup. The vote went instead to Russia.
Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham were on hand in Zurich as Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, delivered the result.
Millions of football fans around the country were watching the broadcast live on TV and on the internet, facing an agonising wait as the announcement was delayed.
Qatar were chosen to host the competition in 2022.
Vying for the 2018 tournament had been England, Netherlands-Belgium, Russia and Spain-Portugal, while Australia, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Qatar were pitching for 2022.
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And the worst news about this? The England team has now got to try to flippin’ qualify for the 2018 competition, instead of getting an exemption!
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Sky News reports that England were eliminated in the first round with two votes from the 22 delegates. One of the delegates was England’s Geoff Thompson, so we only won one vote.
Many thanks to the BBC, Birmingham City and Aston Villa for all of their help this week.
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Its only a game!
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Well instead of a certainty of please call me Lady Beckham, to a maybe in the New Years Honours list.
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Why do we assume we’ve got a God given right to have this competition again? There are plenty of countries who have never had it and it is only right that it moves around the continents. We’ve got the Olympics and the Rugby World Cup and had the European Championships not that long ago. Yes, good for business but who pays for the infrastructure? Sure it doesn’t all come from lottery funds.
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But it does save England the embarrassment of being knocked out in the group stages on home soil.
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Usa lost olympic bid to Brazil, England lost world cup bid to Russia.
The blood of iraqi children still make international community think.
It not Bekham fault! It Tony Blair and all MP who voted for Iraq war.David Cameron voted for iraq war.
Next time do not send people who have iraqi children blood in they hand.
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Steady on Zulu..it’s not a matter of life or death…it’s more important than that {thanks Bill}
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Yeah, this is obviously what happened.
Interesting that the Iraq war (2003) seemingly did not have the same impact on the decision to hold the 2012 Olympic Games in London which occurred in 2005, when the war was more controversial.
This is a article about football. If you want to make a statement about the war, find an appropriate place to do it.
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as we lost so heavily in the first round we have no one to blame but sep blatter who all along wanted russia to have the cup. it will be a brave supporter who visits the mafia state of russia in 2018 unless the country is considerably cleaned up.
i suggest we organise our own world cup in spain/portugal in 2018 for 64 amatuer world cup teams
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Yes what a spiffing idea, and before we know it we will have the same problem as boxing with about 5 different world champions in each category…..
If you don’t win you just create a new title until you do :-0
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If you want an American take on them losing the 2022 bid to Qatar then you may find this article in the San Francisco Chronicle slightly amusing and cynical of FIFA’s decision making:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/03/SPNQ1GL4ET.DTL
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Yes made me smile
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If it is a pre-determined decision by the FIFA ExCo then let’s remove the pretence and expense of bidding for the darn thing. Complete waste of time, money, and effort – just announce who has it for the next 50 years and move on.
I can only hope that the BBC and Sunday Times carry on with their investigations and demonstrate to the soccer world what a corrupt and self-serving bunch FIFA execs are.
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What does David Cameron know about winning an outright majority in a vote, anyway?
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let’s just have the world cup in the same place every time, all the money that would be saved from building new stadium, same with the Olympics we’ve got the damn thing and it’s costing billions what will happen to the new stadium being built at tax payers expense? a rich premiership football club will get at next to nothing
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ann widdecombe must now be at a loose end, perhaps we could set her on fifa. her american smooth may not finish them off, but it would exhaust those octagenarians. sepp blatter in particular, strictly dumb prancing. well done lets hear it for ann one of the few stars that have warmed our winter so far
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