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Brazil and Qatar World Cups

Biggus

Not from Indonesia and New Zealand.

Claudius

So you'll have World Cup watched by Australians, Indonesians and sheep?

Biggus

Don't be like Roy Hodgson and Jack Wilshere Claudi.

Theres only 1-2 hours difference in time between Australia and east Asia, y'know where half the worlds population live.....

http://www.jgiesen.de/astro/astroJS/timezone/

evoh

Australia would be the perfect destination for a world cup, however football is mostly about corrupt bungs and letting dictators and cunt merchants validate themselves through the massive global PR exercise. On those stakes the emirates cannot be matched, perhaps only by russia.

evoh

12 hour time difference to europe would be a killer though for tv schedules.

Biggus

Aww diddums, I had to stay up till 3am to watch our game last night as I had to manually select it as some cunt at Foxtel selected Chelsea/Cardiff as the #1 game despite us being league leaders.
Us antipodeans and asians do it tough most of the time, would it kill you pricks just to let us have one?

invisibleman18

Indeed. Australia would be amazing for a World Cup. Would definitely be there for that, hopefully getting free/cheap accommodation from various friends and contacts in different cities too. Still regret not going to Sydney for the Olympics. Or the rugby world cup either. 2002 was the best for time difference in NZ with most games being on the evening before bed. Although most of 2006 turned out good for me as I was in the UK from the 2nd round onwards. Brazil sounds like games are going to be late enough in the day that it's going to require a bit of time off work (or recording and avoiding results during the day) rather than being able to see games before work and just be half an hour late.

Rex

Sort of look forward to Qatar. Not for the football per say, but for the tinkering with domestic football that will have to come about ahead of the tournament.

I honestly think it is stupid to not play domestic football in the summer! The pitches are at their best, people have holidays and can actually get to games easier, especially fans travelling from abroad. Instead, we play Stoke in the middle of the fucking winter...

Burnwinter

If you can host a World Cup in Japan and Korea, you can host it in Australia and NZ. I do think with our lesser population it'd be a bit of a lower key event (albeit with excellent facilities).

Volante

Oh dear
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOC_BRAZIL_STADIUM_COLLAPSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-11-27-11-21-31

flobaba

Wow. They are obviously rushing to get it done in time and now cutting corners and overlooking basic safety precautions. Feel extremely bad for the construction workers, their families don't need that shit.

Biggus

I think FIFA regulations state that stadia must be finished by the end of the year, they've got no chance.

Burnwinter wrote:
If you can host a World Cup in Japan and Korea, you can host it in Australia and NZ. I do think with our lesser population it'd be a bit of a lower key event (albeit with excellent facilities).

Don't agree with that, population has nothing to do with it, Australians will support any sport that Australia is involved in.
A world cup in Australia would be brilliant.
The time difference wouldn't be a problem for over half the people in the world.

Burnwinter

I think we'd do a superb job of hosting the World Cup, we've got the track record, it just wouldn't be as mad an event as it will probably be in Brazil.

Biggus

Well every country has its own cultural sporting traditions thats what gives world cups their unique flavours.
In Britain it's a battle in Italy it's an opera in the USA it's a show and in Brazil it'll be a samba dance and so on.

Burnwinter

Fewer vuvuzelas I hope.

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