who will host the 2022 world cup?

qatar bids seems ludicrous

fuck all of you, give it to whoever of england and russia doesn't get it in '18

Qatar doesn't stand a chance. Jap/SK "just" hosted one. Australians cares less about soccer than Americans, right?

USA USA USA

wouldn't Qatar have to build hella stadiums? and then wouldn't they just lie fallow from that point on, forever? giving them a WC only encourages that sort of reckless expenditure

the story I heard is their stadiums would be designed to be taken apart and given to less-fortunate areas in need of playing space

fuck that, USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

USA "just" had one as well. Would go Australia for minimal sleep for a month. I bet Qatar would have awesome stadia.

Australia, though Qatar makes a surprisingly persuasive case in the ads - Zidane pleading for the youth of the middle east to be given its chance, which is obviously how it'd work out irl

i read through jack warner's wiki last night. if any nefarious scumbag can get the world cup for his federation, it's him

well the US hosted sixteen years ago, vs SK/JPN hostin in 2002. I suppose by 2022 that eight year diff will seem less pronounced.

mostly I want it here so I can go to games. duh.

Quatar are proposing to put all the stadia in one place, which sounds insane.

going with qatar. sounds bonkers.

have to vote aus here. qatar would be nice but fuck those areas are just terrible rich vs poor oilfield megadromes - the level of grasping corporate omnisponsorship would be disgusting

Quatar are proposing to put all the stadia in one place, which sounds insane.

that sounds awesome actually.

if it were one big beer garden...

then what fucking happens after the world cup

DESTITUTION that's what

tho for real is there really no booze in Qatar??

it's ozymandias all over again

All of this sounds insane apart from maybe Australia. And they won't be interested in cricket for much longer the way the Ashes are going.

it's cool bro they can't have the world cup in australia because the NRL won't let them

its cool bro we're bribing the NRL with a stadium in Blacktown

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USA one would obv be great but think Australia deserve a go

Wtf?! Paddy Power are the only bookies running this and they suddenly have Qatar as red hot favourites - last time I looked about a week ago, USA were top, Aus second, Qatar about 8/1 and Japan & Korea nowhere, but now it's:

Qatar - 4/7
Australia - 2/1
USA - 6/1
Japan - 40/1
Good Korea - 40/1

People are starting to realise that Qatar isn't such a bad place for the Cup.

I mean, they'll be playing matches in the evening - the temperature will go down to a cool 40C!

Water taxis, dudes, water taxis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-z2jtUS9-Y

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wtf guyzzzzzzz

Paddy Power says one guy here is on dis ting

Qatar's odds've shortened again, slightly:

Qatar - 4/6
USA - 7/4
Australia - 9/2
Japan - 40/1
Good Korea - 50/1

Huge swings in US/Aus odds overnight - my conclusion is that no-one gives a toss about 2022, and Qatar's position is entirely down to the arab a hoy hoy getting all nationalistic with his 50 dirhams.

is that a ref to my betting thread because otherwise i dont get it

Indeed it is - could be cash to be made with these fluctuations because surely this one's going nowhere other than America or Australia.

What time will games be played in Qatar in connect w/ European times? If it is at a time better than Aus can provide, they are sorted.

Qatar is only one hour different from South Africa so timing for Europe shouldn't be a problem.

USA USA USA

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, November 29, 2010 2:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

why the hell isn't chicago up for hosting any games?

no Rich Soccer Legacy to draw upon

The story is that the failed 2016 olympic bid took up all the $/willpower.

Nevermind that USSoccer is headquartered here.

Do Indianapolis and Nashville have 'rich soccer legacy'?

well someone hasnt heard of first presbyterian nashville soccer

no but they have massive football stadia

usa bid presentation streaming live on fifa's site

morgan freeman, wha???

blatter just basically equated him with mandela

that is hilarious. i mean, esp cuz he sorta is the mandela of our imaginations

o fuck freeman u just screwed it up for everyone

everybody be cool, they've all already decided who to vote for (via bribes)

would gwb have made a personal appeal to fifa u think?

all those qatari stadiums are super dope add one vote for qatar congrats qatar!

^^^valuable new poster

the qatar stadiums do look bloody cool. reminded me that i have no idea what london's olympic stadium looks like.

yeah those stadia are fuckin dope, esp the dhow one

still hope they don't get it

qatari stadia

i meant to say stadia but i'm definitely arguing that stadiums is a legitimate alternative here.

الملاعب

general rule of thumb - pluralize as you would in the language youre speaking not the one from which the word originates - stadia is pretty fun tho

stadia is the plural of stadium in English

gtfo u snooty brit

stadia is the plural of stadium in greek, in english we add an s to the end of a word to pluralize it

nice soccerdromes, whatever

although it derives from the greek stadion (στάδιον) it is actually directly from the Roman 3rd declension noun stadium. so it declines:

stadium
stadium
stadium
stadii
stadio
stadio

stadia
stadia
stadia
stadiorum
stadiis
stadiis

of course στάδιον is second declension neuter in ancient greek so has the plural στάδιοᾰ in any case but one has to get these etymological routes right.

(this brit can get snootier, finally my classical education becomes useful for pwning people on the internet)

what's the greek for Lucas Oil Stadium

http://indianapolis.ismyhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lucas-oil-stadium-interior.jpg

on second thought nm

ed now picture me speaking slowly to yr inbred english self - imagine yrself pluralizing every loan word as it is in its native tongue - that would be ridiculous - which is why you dont do it - there are however a few greek and latin words for which you fetishize the pluralization - why do you do this - its because you think it make you look smart

hey heres a dictionary editor speaking sensibly on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk

PWN

It's how we built an empire,elevating the wisdom of the ancients through latin and greek pluralisation, that and beating boys in school.

fair

friends are pretty harsh tbh, tho i did think she was going to say 'slut'.

dudes, do you say mediums instead of media?

i say mediaz

srsly tho my official stance is 'all words are words' media mediums stadia stadiums, whatevs - people think they make up the laws of language, but they dont, they abide by them

a data learn the language

well the USA and Qatar can go home now, we just pwned you guys with a CARTOON KANGAROO and PAUL HOGAN

oh oh oh and HUGH JACKMAN WEARING A POLO SHIRT

Yep, you guys have even blown the bookies away - no-one's taking bets on 2022 anymore.

England now universal favourites for 2018 btw, as the patriotic wall of money creates a surge only previously seen in the team's odds prior to every major tourney ever. Good omen I reckon.

http://i55.tinypic.com/hsrkhh.gif

WHO THE FUCK IS PAUL HOGAN AGAIN

what a bunch of corrupt bullshit

Cosign. I wouldn't be surprised if this kills FIFA ultimately - football running itself has now been tested to destruction.

fifa out

RIP Football, heaven needed a lot of cash.

One vote? Really? Even after Paul Hogan?

gutted for ya mate

Nah mate, it's our fault. We really didn't promise anything exciting or go on about taking the Cup to a new continent/region much.

Also, we forgot to bribe anyone.

lol

^ valuable contribution orrite

an acquaintance of mine, just back from a tour at the USAF base in doha, on qatar:

True, there is no alcohol... men and women can not ride in the same taxi, even if you are married. They have people that walk through their hotels listening at doors to make sure that no one is having sex, they will confiscate the dvd of Beerfest because of the cover art, it is not discrimination exactly but less than 500,000 of their population are "citizens" (out of 1.35 mil) the rest are what you could call minorities of ethnic ambiguity. Ratios are 4-1 men to women... did I mention there is no alcohol?

On the plus side there is little to no crime, they will not make the World Cup itself, they will pay for most everything FIFA wants.

This is going to be the best World Cup ever!

YAY FIFA!

Australia does everything it can to collude against football in this country (especially broadcasting), most of the people here STILL insist it's called 'soccer' and that various codes of deformed rugby are 'the REAL football' (the code to which this applies is wholly dependent on the state you're in at the time) and the rest of the entire planet is 'wrong', and to top it off we just submitted a bid video featuring PAUL HOGAN. Qatar probably deserved this despite its offensive conservatism/racism/prohibition.

I mean if I were on the committee and I saw the way Australia treats football and had to choose between it and a pumpkin, I'd be looking at the merits of a pumpkin, honestly.

wasn't australia trying to imprison paul hogan five minutes ago? was this part of his plea bargain?

Yeah I think the world cup trophy forms part of his fine to the tax office. Also I swear he didn't pay the GST on that motorbike.

Qatar 22 website is down i see

web servers must have overheated right

It was all a hoax, there's no such place.

I suspect somebody pulled a few qatar strings.

The FIFA 2022 office will be called Base Qatar.

The official airline of the world cup will be oh look forget it.

This guy has found a slightly less evil than FIFA: http://twitter.com/#!/madpie90/status/10489040537124864

It was all a hoax, there's no such place.

lol

but hosts do no longer qualify automatically? sort of bummed about that, as i was going to predict Qatar advancing through group stage thanks to 2 dubious referee decisions (one referee from Guinea, one from Tahiti) as well as 7 naturalized Brazilian players.

of course hosts automatically qualify - it would be too ridiculous even for FIFA to have a WC where the host couldn't actually take part.

oh I'm being thick it's the defending champion that doesn't automatically qualify

I hope that world's-worst-miss guy is still around in 2022

of course hosts automatically qualify - it would be too ridiculous even for FIFA to have a WC where the host couldn't actually take part.

anything's possible. :D

Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?

A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?

don't think we've had a tournament where the hosts were ranked 113th in the world before

Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?

― Ismael Klata, vrijdag 3 december 2010 15:08 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?

yeah and also failed the provide enough $$$$ bribes (you'd think they could've done something for us there!)

.. beginning to like the absurd bizareness of this whole Qatar thing though. (for example hadn't until today realized it was soooo small)

i kind of like beckenbauer's idea of having the tournament in january. i'd like to see players in mid-season form once in the WC

When it comes to bidding for the next tournament, a country with a sense of humour should put together a satirical bid based around park football and jumpers-for-goalposts, but openly promising €10m each to the thirteen corrupt members, and see how far it gets. I'd've proposed Ireland 2026, but fear that may be a financial burden too far.

Uefa members back winter World Cup. BBC top story for some reason, maybe because the EPL is opposed. I kind of think Qatar has done well to make it this far, they should see it through now, in the summer and everything.

http://news.sky.com/story/1191990/fifa-moves-2022-qatar-world-cup-to-winter

Christmas World Cup!

i thought i'd be more outraged but on many levels the EPL and FIFA deserve each other

2026 to be held in transylvania, 2030 at animal farm, 2035 mordor special

Robbed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQHBtd5VE0

jfc

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022

Ah, this was the thread I was looking for. (I updated the unfortunately titled 'lol fifa' thread :-/ )

It's insane.

I'm not sure the headline framing and use of statistics is particularly helpful, tbh, even if the article is a bit more nuanced. Qatar should be held accountable for failure to follow through on its commitments and the recommendations stemming from domestic and international scrutiny but it's pretty much the only country in the region making commitments or opening itself up to that kind of scrutiny in the first place.

there aren't any world cup qualifiers thread so...

can't believe jorginho missed that penalty kick

maybe chiesa can break through the defence

So Brazil and Argentina huh

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2021/sep/05/brazil-v-argentina-world-cup-qualifier-live

oh wow. i did not know about that. i wonder why they couldn't quarantine. or is it that they just didn't want to?

So are australia hosting the world cup or what

Walker/sterling use of the ball down that right is awful

There hadn't been a Scotland v Israel game for a couple of weeks so... it's obviously good that Scotland won but it would be nice to have the occasional comfortable victory.

scoring a last minute goal is still better than letting one in like previously tho, McTominay got that Man U extra time luck coursing thru his ... groin?

twas in this fixture that Robbie Fowler scored the greatest England goal of my lifetime. usually don't watch England but hoping for some dull echo of that glorious moment

picked a good one to watch

Group G is wild.

Norway failed to beat Latvia at home, so sit in third place on 18 points, behind Turkey on goal difference.

Netherlands were cruising to automatic qualification but have just conceded two goals in four minutes vs Montenegro, so they’re on 20 if it ends like this.

Norway play Netherlands in the last game. If they win, and Turkey beat Montenegro, Netherlands would be out.

Mitrovic has just scored, knocking Portugal down to the qualifiers unless they can equalise in the next two minutes.

lol, Italy. Should be 1-0 N.I.

They're heading for the playoffs, even if they win by a single goal now.

No easy games in international football.

Elsewhere, I'm faced with the possibility that Scotland might actually be quite good. However. Even though Adams scored (again) I still think we need a centre forward. We don't have really have any centre backs either but Clarke's main selling point is his skill at organizing defences.

No easy games in international football.

Mexico plays Canada in Edmonton tonight 🇲🇽🇨🇦

Edmonton is currently in the middle of a snowstorm that could get up to 8 inches by the afternoon.

Temperature at kickoff is projected to be 17 degrees Fahrenheit with 10 mph winds pic.twitter.com/ToCKJEzOge

— MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) November 16, 2021

the matchup will even up when Cyle Larin gets a DUI before kickoff

Team Canada social media is making references to "Iceteca" lol

Cyle Larin is under the influence of being fucking awesome

Classic moment! #CANMNT pic.twitter.com/hPiK7t36Ag

— Jeremy Taggart (@Taggart7) November 17, 2021

Love the dude jumping into the snowbank

lol Portugal are screeeewed

Scotland v Ukraine. Wales v Austria. Winners play off. Bring it on. Time for the original and best hand of God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXf3n1Mv0I

I noticed some choice scorelines from last night's Women's World Cup qualifiers:

North Macedonia 0 Northern Ireland 11

Spain 12 Faroe Islands 0

Belgium 19 Armenia 0

Love those Wales kits from the late 70s, just a cloud of red gas

LOL at Archie Macpherson wittering on about an obvious penalty even after the slow motion replay clearly showed Joe Jordan punching the ball!

Belgium 19 Armenia 0

There's none of this, "Let's try not to embarass the opposition", nonsense in the women's game.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/30/england-women-latvia-world-cup-2023-qualifier-match-report

at least the the Republic of Ireland team eased off a bit when it got to 8-0

Kudos to Poland for sticking to their guns. Wonder if FIFA will suddenly grow a backbone?

"We are not interested in participating in this game of appearances. Our stance remains intact: Polish National Team will not play with Russia, no matter what the name of the team is," he said.

Italy out!

can we unban Dom for the evening pls

32 shots to 4 lol

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/42b1007a2098b893f6f2d5c91038d48d10ba860b/0_65_1411_883/master/1411.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=41ada9b6d554556f40f1c95c508fa2c2

canada!

Congrats leaves

crazy that we went from not even qualifying for the hexagonal for twenty years to this

Ghana through, Nigeria out.

Good, Ghana got robbed in the AFCON

Good to see Egypt out as well, tbh.

Senegal beat them in the inevitable shootout despite missing their first two penalties.

With a bit of an assist from the crowd

I mean, just look at this. Salah sails his penalty over… and surely anybody would, given the lasers.

Mane scores, Senegal wins the shootout, Egypt out of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/tgHmCmW8uu

— Henry Bushnell (@HenryBushnell) March 29, 2022

Colombia out

World Cup Draw Simulator: https://stattosoftware.com/wc2022/

get on with it!

group e the early favorite for group of death

The official mascot of the 2022 World Cup 🏆 pic.twitter.com/AOvNPNjyXN

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) April 1, 2022

why even bother with the red balls if you're going to pick them first and you know what they are going to say?

england / usa / iran / (wales / scotland / ukraine)

that is way too on the nose

canada has a chance to move on to the knockout stage. exciting.

thankfully we can all unite around the official wc anthem* - it’s a RedOne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDjFVZgJoo
Trinidad Cardona, Davido & Aisha • Hayya Hayya (Better Together)

*pending a new version substituting Davido from non-qualifying Nigeria with a yet to be determined Ghanaian artist

Why not Cameroonian? They're in a group where anyone would dearly like to see them prosper too

USA vs Iran again! The last time was magical.

Nigeria lost to Ghana in their playoff

is one reason I made this jxke

xp

Doesn’t really feel like there’s a Group Of Death this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOSUsKqQ-8

just thinking about all of this. it sounds corny to say, but canada qualifying was the best thing that could happen to this country. you can tell the vibe is changing. the team has achieved its main goal. even if we get eliminated in the group stage, this is already a big win for soccer in canada. anything else is just gravy

Xp group A I'd say, contrary to all the confident predictions that Qatar would get Tunisia, the Chagos Islands and Haringey Borough

When I was up in Scotland I saw (ex-Ranger) Chris Burke talking about the World Cup and saying maybe Scotland should just do the decent thing and withdraw and allow Ukraine to go through, which brought the instantaneous response of "Get tae fuck!" in households the length and breadth of the country.

Lol

Sky News understands the Qatar World Cup is set to start a day earlier than scheduled to allow the host nation to be the opening game of the tournament

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/NEDMP2uP6W

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) August 10, 2022

Surprised this is happening

Extraordinary from Denmark kit supplier Hummel: "We don’t wish to be visible during a tournament that has cost thousands of people their lives. We support the Danish national team all the way, but that isn’t the same as supporting Qatar as a host nation." pic.twitter.com/ENVJtzYUHn

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) September 28, 2022

Still going well I see

qatar bids seems ludicrous

― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 bookmarkflaglink

In retrospect, Japan/S.Korea had both hosted World Cup too recently and, frankly, it was never going to go to Australia which left the USA and Qatar. The USA are getting the next tournament.