England unsuccessful in world cup bid

[soramad]

if your sad enough to have a world that rotates round football then you should get out more and get a life, as already said its only a game played by highly paid egoists who are useless for anything else worthwhile.

[slobodan]

Not entirely true, did you not read about the football grounds that were going to be rebuild for the event.

Sorry, I was under the impression we had good enough stadia.
Your probably right, by the time 2018 comes around, a few will need redoing.

[si tate]

Probably the reason we didn't get the gig. The rest of the world have seen how long and what a f**k-up we make of our building projects.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Not entirely true, did you not read about the football grounds that were going to be rebuild for the event.

Probably the reason we didn't get the gig. The rest of the world have seen how long and what a f**k-up we make of our building projects.

[si tate]

The Olympics are costing money because we are building stadiums, transport infrastructure, Olympic village etc.

For the world cup we wouldn't have had to build anything.

Not entirely true, did you not read about the football grounds that were going to be rebuild for the event.

[slobodan]

The Olympics are costing money because we are building stadiums, transport infrastructure, Olympic village etc.

For the world cup we wouldn't have had to build anything.

[Surfer Ross]

Personally, I'm delighted they didn't get it. They sprung David Beckham out of the lobbying box and gathering together every fibre of his intellect, he came out with that insightful statement, "Look, the future King of England is here". Is he not also going to be the King of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Clown!

It would have amounted to 6 weeks of English Football Yobs rampaging around the place, causing trouble, getting a good kicking from all and sundry, and generally bringing the whole country into disrepute.

[DaveHMS]

It's only a game - a bunch of blokes kicking a pigs bladder around a field. What is all the excitement about?
I couldn't give a flying fcuck about anything football related.
I'm glad that I don't subscribe to Sky. I really don't want to help fund overpaid bladder kickers wages more than I probably do already.

[Nick V]

That's up to you to think like that, but now we aren't getting it, let's just see if the "shed loads of money" gets spent on jobs, schools and healthcare! I THINK NOT!!

I do agree that we DIDN'T spend a fortune on bungs!

Cheers, Nick

[funkykebab]

I am ###### glad we did not get it...

Look how many billions the ###### Olympic Games is costing us....we are never going to get back anywhere near the outlay back!

Same goes with the the World Cup.....we would spend shed loads of money that the government don't have to get a fraction back!

I would rather see the money go to keeping people in jobs, schools and healthcare!

If the media had not hyped it all out of proportion it would be such a bad thing, even if England had gotten the votes promised we would still not have beaten the Russians.

Saying that the Russian Mob must have spent a fortune bribing all the officials!

Matt

[shirley53]

Eh let me think, NO she cant. If I remember correctly all roads out of Auchendinny are uphill and surrounded by trees. I bet its not the easiest place to get out of or into right now, especially in a Honda Jazz. and I seem to remember that bit of Midlothian suffers more than others when it snows. Ive seen a good 4-6" of snow in Penicuik when just up the road Loanhead has had a light dusting.

Bogus

Her house is up a hill on a private road...Lethal..with traffic lights at the bottom as there is a narrow bridge . I think she said there was about 2' snow outside her house. She had to walk to Penicuik to get a bus at 6am to get to work to look after the ''sick chicks' (12 hour shift)..I wish i hadn't sold the black hilux...I should have given it to her....

[western uk]

Hi Slobo'

What i mean by spoilt is that they just get too much money. They don't live in the real world. It doesn't matter to them if they qualify for the world cup or not if they get paid £150,000 a week dose it ?

Another reason that we cant win the world cup is that there are too many foreign players playing in this country. It ought to be limited to a few players per team. Not only would it be better for the game but there would be a few less of the gits here !

[si tate]

So, was George Best a 'Prima Donna'?

There is a clip of him against Chelsea, he is on a wonderful dribble, and as he is near the penalty area, Chopper comes in, on a slide tackle designed to remove legs below the knee.
Bestie rides it and scores.

I love football.

It sounds like you just did a little wee while you were typing that out.

[slobodan]

So, was George Best a 'Prima Donna'?

There is a clip of him against Chelsea, he is on a wonderful dribble, and as he is near the penalty area, Chopper comes in, on a slide tackle designed to remove legs below the knee.
Bestie rides it and scores.

I love football.

[Apache]

Haha, I grew up watching 'Chopper' Harris, Mickey Droy and Vinnie Jones play for Chelsea.
Not really a place for them in todays game.

(and Ron Yeats, Tommy Smith and Steve mcmahon)

What about Graeme Souness - him of 'eh! eh! eh!' style curly perm that spawned a thousand Harry Enfield imitations?