You wouldn't see the Cricket World Cup being held in Austria would you? Or the Olympic Games coming to Algeria so why the **** is the football world cup being held in the desert? I'd love to snap a cricket bat over Sepp Blatter's head.
I don't see why Fifa would risk it when they would need an established country to host after the Qatar fiasco.
Just give it to the Jormans, they'll be in the final anyway, so having the host nation in the final, keeps the natives interested.
They may be a newish country to football, but they have run two Olympic games, rugby world cups, commonwealth games more than once. Compare that to Japan and Korea? Aussie footballers are well established around the world as well. You need to do more research.
what a load of ****e, fifa investigate themselves and find themselves not guilty, utter garbage http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30031405
sports lawyer just been on ssn and basically said they need law enforcement to get involved otherwise nothing will ever come of it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30031405 World Cup inquiry clears Qatar but criticises English FA The English Football Association has been accused of flouting bidding rules in its attempt to stage the 2018 World Cup - but 2022 hosts Qatar have been cleared of corruption allegations. A Fifa report says the FA behaved improperly when trying to win the backing of a key voter. Qatar faced a number of claims surrounding its bid, but the Gulf state is now in the clear. In effect, Fifa's long-awaited report ends talk of a re-vote. In a statement, football's world governing body welcomed the fact that "a degree of closure has been reached". However, the FA baulked at the criticism levelled at it, insisting it had "conducted a transparent bid". An FA statement read: "We do not accept any criticism regarding the integrity of England's bid or any of the individuals involved." The news that the FA has been criticised is a surprise given that it has repeatedly called for transparency in the voting process and accused Fifa of not doing enough to stamp out corruption. The FA is accused of trying to "curry favour" with former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who quit his role in 2011 amid bribery allegations. Individuals involved in England's bid could now face action following the conclusion of the two-year inquiry, which was led by American lawyer Michael Garcia. Fifa's report, which also looks at the conduct of other bidding nations for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, makes a number of damaging points about the conduct of England officials. In particular, it says England's bid team tried to win the support of Warner, who is from Trinidad & Tobago, by: Trying to help "a person of interest to him" find a part time job in the United Kingdom Letting the Trinidad and Tobago Under-20 squad hold a training camp in the UK in the summer of 2009 Sponsoring a gala dinner for the Caribbean Football Union, at a cost of $55,000, around £35,000 In the 42-page report, Hans Joachim Eckert, Fifa's independent ethics adjudicator, writes that England's bid team "showed a willingness, time and again" to meet Warner's expectations. By doing so, it damaged "the image of Fifa and the bidding process". The inquiry looked at the conduct of all nine bidding teams who were trying to win the right to stage either the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. It was initiated after a number of corruption allegations were made once voting had taken place in 2010. Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, beating off England as well as joint bids by the Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal. England won just two votes after expressing high hopes of winning. To much surprise, Qatar were awarded the 2022 tournament, edging out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States. Qatar were subsequently accused of paying Fifa officials £3m to secure backing for its bid. However, they have now been cleared of wrongdoing, although the report said that there were "certain indications of potentially problematic conduct of specific individuals". It concluded that payments by former Fifa vice-president Mohamed bin Hammam were judged to be for the disgraced Qatari's personal political interests, not the 2022 bid. Qatari officials said they were busy digesting the contents of the report, but, in a statement, commented: "We co-operated fully with the ethics committee's investigation and continue to believe that a fair and appropriate review will demonstrate the integrity and quality of our bid." As for Russia, they have also been cleared, although the report noted its bid team made "only a limited amount of documents available for review". According to the report, the Russian team hired computers that were subsequently destroyed, denying the inquiry access to email accounts. Responding to the report, Alexey Sorokin, the chief of Russia's 2018 World Cup organising committee, said the country had nothing to hide. "We don't have any particular emotions because we were always confident that there could be nothing which would come out from this investigation," he told Sky Sports News. "It's something Fifa deemed important to do. It was done, we participated, we complied, what more can we do?" On the subject of the email accounts, Sorokin insisted there was a plausible explanation. "There were no deleted emails," he added. "We rented the equipment, we had to give it back, then it went. We don't even know where it went." The FA has yet to react to the report's findings, but Conservative MP Damien Collins labelled the report "a whitewash". Collins, who has campaigned for Fifa reform and in 2011 used Parliamentary privilege to make allegations that bribes helped secure Qatar the tournament, said those allegations remained unanswered. "It is a whitewash as it is an attempt to con people that there has been a full and independent investigation when there has not been," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------ Is this the parts of the report they said they would publish instead of the full thing? Not saying our FA are a bunch of saints but to say there is no corruption from Qatar? Laughable
Breaking news!!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30037729 Even the bloke who did the investigation agrees with you! ****ing stinks!!!
Utter quality on there behalf! Makes you wonder is Blatter at the point now where he is purposely trying to troll the world
The Olympics in Tokyo, Seoul, the World Cup, 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Japan and Korea are more than capable of hosting large sporting events. Don't really appreciate the unfounded statement of being told to do more research. I don't doubt Australia would be able to put on a great World Cup, but then if you think I did, I could understand your mistake.
Not a mistake at all, Aussie has an excellent history of running world events, huge stadiums and a sports mad nation. The other countries you quote have run a one off Olympics or WC event where much prep was needed Auss could do it tomorrow.
The other countries were mentioned originally by you. I don't doubt Australia could host a great WC tomorrow.
I wonder if the FBI will be sorted out with envelopes stuffed with Benjamins. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ing-up-an-investigation-into-fifa-corruption/ I'm convinced that fat slug Blatter will kill himself if necessary to avoid the s**t that will inevitably come his way.
An in-depth investigation by a neutral is summarised by an interested party for presentation to the world and the only party that has been open and fully honest gets criticised. It gets worse as it goes along and although it pains me to say it, football under Blatter has lost everything it stood for under those past. Since the 1950s the game has developed via the world cup and other competitions from being all about football to all about finances. Jules Rimet and Sir Stanley Rous will be turning in their graves. Just wish I could not be bothered about it. Those at the top should remember that they are there with the goodwill of the members. Just wish now UEFA would break away from FIFA, let them have a Rest of the World tournament and that winner plays the Euro Champions to decide who is world champions.
