http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18657633 What's all that about? Some selected nonsense: "It is easier to go from London to Paris or Berlin than Cardiff to Gdansk." Of course it is Michel, London, Paris & Berlin are capital cities with several airports each and London & Paris are also linked by Eurostar. Cardiff is west of London and Gdansk is east of Berlin and neither are major transport hubs. Sharp as a razor there to spot that but what the relevance is I haven't the faintest. "We are just thinking about it. I have said 12 or 13 host cities, it could be 24 or 32. In these days of cheap air travel anything is possible." Yes, my old French mucker, it's possible but is it affordable for ordinary fans who don't get first class tickets courtesy of EUFA? Especially if they're having to flit from one side of Europe to the other to watch their team's group games. C'est complètement crackers n'est-ce pas? "It is the political decision that needs to be made. We wouldn't have to build stadiums or airports. That could be important in an economic crisis." Yes, well stop evaluating bids on the basis of the grandiosity of the facilities being promised then and stop trying to ingratiate yourself to all the minnow countries by giving them the tournament in order to get re-elected. Give the championships to England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal or Germany who already have the necessary infrastructure. Oh and by the way, are you saying we'll still be in an economic crisis by 2020? You'd better get onto le vieux chien et d'os to Christine Lagarde tout de bleedin' suite cos I don't think she knows that. Finally, in relation to goal line technology ""I am against technology," he said at Saturday's press conference in Kiev. You & who else, Napoleon? Draft your own comments here http://translate.google.com/
Well really notdistant. No seriously go on, say what you think and have done. I saw a headline about 12 cities but haven't read it so presume that is what you are talking about for the 2020 Euros. Seems a bit daft to me to be honest. Why would you want football supporters commuting all over Europe from one match to the next unless you got something from the airlines. It seems bad enough trying to travel by air these days getting on holiday without cluttering the airports up with thousands of football fans as well. The queues would be horrendous.
Those are not worrys for the likes of Platini and Blatter sensible........they have obviously worked out a plan to get rich quick and make No1 rich (or richer still)..........think of all those 10% that they will put in their piggy banks from all those other cities and boosting the travel industry in one foul stroke.