who will host the 2018 world cup?

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we probably could have had a thread on this a while ago but here we are. this week! curious to know how far england's stock has fallen among ilxors (lol). oh hey new allegations http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/29/secret-payments-fifa-world-cup-committee

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Portugal and Spain	8
England	5
Russia	5
Belgium and the Netherlands	1

― con suelo, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

voted englande fwiw

― con suelo, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

i know we've been talking about this some, it's mostly been on the naming rights thread, yeah?

― con suelo, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

Russia I thought, but all the talk the last week has been bigging up Spain & Portugal's chances. England look like they've played this all wrong.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

Belgium and the Netherlands least likely to be bankrupt by 2018?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

the farther west the better imo, portugal/spain

― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

(they like to have matches late in the day there too, no? only helps us western hemispherites)

― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago)

farthest west timezone is britain u ingrate altho portugal (not spain) is equivalent iirc

― underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

yeah and you know what else? they have better food/wine and everyone is more attractive. plus the media machine surrounding a WC in the UK would be k-insufferable and blowhardy to the max. i hope it's never hosted there AGAIN

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

FUCK

― underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

*hooliganises gbx*

― underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

portugal really doesn't have better food than the uk

spain...yeah ok

― jabba hands, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

Panorama ran tonight with allegations on bribes taken by three FIFA voters prior to the 2006 world cup, plus some stuff or other about Jack Warner who is believed to control two, and possibly all three, of the concacaf votes (how, exactly?). Sorry to be so vague, I purposely didn't watch out of solidarity with our brave boys and their courageous bid.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

they have better food/wine and everyone is more attractive.

They have better local wine. The rest is not entirely true.

plus the media machine surrounding a WC in the UK would be k-insufferable and blowhardy to the max.

Oh, but if England lost, it would be so very funny.

― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

stance on relative attractiveness of spaniards/englishes compromised atm, let's call it a close-run thing

― rmad and dangerous (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

England is less racist than Spain/Por and Russia. England losing a second bid to another European country (after losing the 06 bid to Germany) would be too much a major fucking insult tbh - more than anything some factions of the media have done. Why give it to Spain/Por when Spain had a WC more recently than England and Portugal had a major tournament more recently than England? I feel like Russia should get a chance but try hosting a Euros first yeah? Adding everything up England not getting it would be some serious bullshit.

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:47 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

19 votes = the number of incorruptible/not-yet-implicated FIFA committee members

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

lol my vote was about as useless as the Belgian's delegate will be tomorrow.

― Ludo, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

interesting how Spain/Portugal are suddenly the favourites, Spain surely have good post-colonial relationships...

― Ludo, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

mongolia looking unlikely to qualify

― alomar lines, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 08:24 (eleven years ago)

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