what a bunch of corrupt bullshit
― con suelo, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Cosign. I wouldn't be surprised if this kills FIFA ultimately - football running itself has now been tested to destruction.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
fifa out
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Football, heaven needed a lot of cash.
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
One vote? Really? Even after Paul Hogan?
gutted for ya mate
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^ valuable contribution orrite
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
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!
― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
wasn't australia trying to imprison paul hogan five minutes ago? was this part of his plea bargain?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Qatar 22 website is down i see
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
web servers must have overheated right
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It was all a hoax, there's no such place.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I suspect somebody pulled a few qatar strings.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The FIFA 2022 office will be called Base Qatar.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Friday, 3 December 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
oh I'm being thick it's the defending champion that doesn't automatically qualify
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope that world's-worst-miss guy is still around in 2022
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
anything's possible. :D
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
don't think we've had a tournament where the hosts were ranked 113th in the world before
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ismael Klata, vrijdag 3 december 2010 15:08 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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)
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― con suelo, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
http://news.sky.com/story/1191990/fifa-moves-2022-qatar-world-cup-to-winter
Christmas World Cup!
― Blandford Forum, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
i thought i'd be more outraged but on many levels the EPL and FIFA deserve each other
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:02 (ten years ago) link
2026 to be held in transylvania, 2030 at animal farm, 2035 mordor special
― lj. 'hoover' egads (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
Robbed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQHBtd5VE0
― pplains, Sunday, 23 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
jfc
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
Ah, this was the thread I was looking for. (I updated the unfortunately titled 'lol fifa' thread :-/ )
It's insane.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
there aren't any world cup qualifiers thread so...
can't believe jorginho missed that penalty kick
maybe chiesa can break through the defence
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
So Brazil and Argentina huh
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2021/sep/05/brazil-v-argentina-world-cup-qualifier-live
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
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?
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
So are australia hosting the world cup or what
― since you are a big fan of adult websites (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 6 September 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
Walker/sterling use of the ball down that right is awful
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
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.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
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?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 9 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 12 November 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
picked a good one to watch
― imago, Friday, 12 November 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link