Yes, that would be the generous way to look at it. :)
I can accept the Russian decision, although they have to do a lot of work to get their house in order pre 2018. But Qatar is a really odd one that makes very little sense, unless the intention really is to award to people who have never held it before. By the way, the England bid for 2018, which was marked as being the most impressive of the bids by FIFAs technical committee, received only 2 votes out of 22. Bearing in mind one of those votes would have been the England representative, that means in reality our bid got 1 vote. Which is amazing. From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 December 2010 17:27 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Russia wins 2018 World Cup hosting Uhh...they really did award it to Qatar? I thought that was a joke. Good grief. Well..I guess part of it is about spreading the influence of FIFA and Football to new areas of the world? On 2 December 2010 13:05, Will Swain <w...@hothorse.com> wrote: > > Worse than Russia winning by far is the decision to award to Qatar. A > country with no footballing pedigree at all, with a population less than > the > total number of spectators at this years world cup. This highlights how > corrupt FIFA has become IMO. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332317 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
