Scotland, Wales and ROI Euro 2020

No idea mate I'm not on the organising comittee.

 

Maybe you should be, we'd all get an insight

 

Well that's that question cleared up.

 

Basically, "no, we can't, but we'll bid anyway." Traditional British way of doing things

 

How many stadia are being used this time out?

 

Will never happen. Not enough decent stadiums that could accomodate large numbers.

 

Isn't there a rule about not using more than one stadium/city anyway?

 

Euro 2012 is using 8 stadia

 

France are basically doing this for Euro 2016. Stade de France isn't technically in Paris, but is if you've ever been there. Parc des Princes is the official Paris stadium but Stade de France is basically there too, in a different commune, so there might be a way of using that for Scotland

 

There is 8 stadiums this time with capacity as low as 30k.

50k
40k
40k
40k
70k
50k
35k
30k

 

8 for 16 teams, by that logic you'd need 12 in Euro 2020. That's definitely possible, if the Liberty and Cardiff City stadium is expanded

 

There's three potential stadia in Edinburgh - a bit of a tarting up and Tannadice and Pitoddrie could be used as well.

Braga's stadium was used in the Portugese tournament - it only had stands at three sides and it only holds 30,000.

 

Turkey will still be the preferred bidder, and where would the financing for this come from? The individual FAs can't fund it all themselves, so the clubs would have to do it themselves. they might not have the cash depending on their league situation

 

Here's the top five GAA grounds in the Republic.



1 Croke Park 82,300 Dublin
2 Semple Stadium 55,000 Thurles
3 Gaelic Grounds 50,000 Limerick
4 Páirc Uí Chaoimh 43,500 Cork
5 Fitzgerald Stadium 43,000


There is many more with acceptable capacity although much is terraced I'm sure the could be modified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gaelic_Athletic_Association_stadiums

 

I'm sure the UEFA representatives could be tricked into thinking Parkhead wasn't on British soil. Easy.

 

I'm sure they could be tricked into thinking that Ibrox was in 1952 Britain. Easy.

 

I've been to Thurles for an Ulster Quarter or Semi Final (cannae mind which) between Blayney and the Cross.

It was terraced at 3 sides - it would need a major overhaul.

 

Don't the numbers reduce quite a bit when you put seating into each stadium.

There is no way they will let 3 teams skip the qualifiers to qualify automatically.

 

Why did UEFA encourage the bid if there was 'no way they will let 3 teams skip the qualifiers to qualify automatically'?

 

I'm talking ****e - it was Clones