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The world cup is losing its charm if it's played in winter, but I must admit that players being in top form at the moment might make the level of football higher.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter Supports 2022 Winter World Cup Sepp Blatter has voiced his opinion that it could be a good idea to play the 2022 World Cup in the winter. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has voiced his opinion that it could be a wise idea to organise the 2022 World Cup during the winter...

You know what will be super cool? England to not qualify at all for WC 2018 after missing out on hosting it and an automatic qualification. From being organizers and strong candidates to win the WC to not even play at the WC.

Nick?

Fuck you. You could have waited 2 minutes before posting this :D

Yeah, the football culture brought to Australia by the Italians and the Balkans probably puts Australia ahead of Qatar in that regard. I guess he wanted to say that football is no.1 sport in Qatar and it's not in Australia.

Aha. China could be a strong rival by then, do you think so? I read something about them seriously considering bidding for a WC. If Qatar didn't win it they'd have tried in 2026 already.

I bet some would have complained no matter who got the 2022 WC. Just that the complaints would have been about different things. Btw, it was too arrogant from Japan and Korea to bid for 2022 after hosting 2002. Do those wannabes on the world football map want to host every single world cup maybe?

Btw, If I saw it right, all the cities in Russia where matches will be played are in the European part of Russia and not a single city in the much bigger Asian part, even if there are some big cities there too. I guess they did it (among other things) so there won't be 2 world cups in a row in...

I think that Russia suits you better than any other European country, or am I wrong? It's 2:34 here (CET), 4:34 in Moscow. What's the time in your country?

Australia would have been terrible actually (for the Europeans). Those night matches there would have been at 6am here. The afternoon matches would have started at 2am or so. USA wouldn't have been that bad, except the west coast night matches, but still it's a 6 hour difference between here...

I obviously don't mean all of us in Europe and the US :D Yes, but why would I care about you? I only want the time zone to suit me. :D

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ro-worldcupvote120210 Qatari woman being sexually discriminated etc.

I know that for you this is important, but for me, sorry, it makes no difference and I really don't care. I will watch it on TV most probably and it won't make any difference to me if it was Qatar, Spain, UAE or France. I did prefer Qatar ahead of their rivals solely for the time zone. What I...

Neither a European paper calls them dirty Muslims. It calls them a medieval kingdom with no freedom of speech but you and I both know how will the average and less educated American or European interpret it. The first thing I read today after the hosts were announced was an article on yahoo...

I didn't see any of the bids. I am talking about the comments on the front page of Daily Mirror. It says: "Qatar - Medieval kingdom with no freedom of speech". It was so expected from Europe and the USA to go with that. Attack the barbarian Muslims who should never win something when we're...

They are printing what the public wants to read and what the public will agree with. Imo it gives a bad picture of the average English reader. They are actually claiming things they have absolutely no proof of. Isn't it more professional to write "Sold?" rather than "Sold" ? The comments about...

It was Daily something, so I thought it's this one.

Wow, Red once told me that this is the worst newspaper ever. Looks like he was right.

As a white European, I must say that I am shocked how the whiteys react to Qatar's win. Talking mostly about things I read outside this forum. The white man is too arrogant.