Kaizero

Both Brazil and South Africa predicted profit, they got massive losses - and the cost of arranging a match in one of their stadiums costs more than the team playing their get through ticket sales. It's just not good to give such a massive tournament to a country that doesn't need a massive infrastructure lift. In Brazil's case, that wasn't the stadiums - more the general infrastructure needed to modernize their cities for such an event. It's just how it made no sense for a joing Norway/Sweden Euro bid. Most people into football in both countries (myself included) wants that to happen, but we have no teams that would even fill half of the stadium sizes that would need to exist to host it - after the EC - so even if we'd get an upswing, it'd mean a longtime loss, which is why our politicians scrapped the idea because they are fun ghouls.

Not sure why that is so important really, who cares how many stadiums they need to build? Assume it means less profit for FIFA, which is probably a major reason. Makes the nations run at a horrible loss and leaves massive empty ghost stadiums that fall apart. https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/02/02/world-cup-stadiums-brazil-south-africa-fifa-white-elephants

100% the right choice by FIFA, for once. These nations need to do very little to be able to host a tournament compared to Morocco, which would probably need to build five to six stadiums. Also in favour of the US getting 60 matches compared to Mexico/Canadas 20.

I hear they're from an Insta account called Mockup-FC.

Time's Up, you know.

Europe. He means that when the time comes for Europe to get a WC, the competition between nations capable of hosting it is much harder than when they look at North America, where there's essentially just two. Canada couldn't host it alone, I think.

You mean his career managing the U-Sides of the Spain setup? What even is this opinion?

Now watch it be Brazil.

£10 on Mitro for Golden Boot £10 on Serbia to make the Quarter Finals I guess I'm cheering for Serbia this time

Linked by who? He's good. I'd approve of buying him.

Well that's your fault for watching villa expecting to see him shine.

If nobody shows for the last three I can send over £6 and the forum fund can have them.

Only if you count Messi, Werner, Lukaku, Suarez, Cavani, Costa, Mbappe, Higuain and Coutinho as "decent".

Ah shit, forgot to put my name in the comments. I'll have 37/45.

The celebrations were outrageous given the context being an old-boys charity game repeat of a WC ‘98 group stage game, but I loved it

Also, Rivaldo could easily still play for a decent enough team

Absolutely love how serious it seems both norway 98 and Brazil 98 took the «rematch» From Ronaldo throwing a fit at someone missing an open goal, to Ze Roberto throwing himself all over and asking the ref to card people That Tore Andre Flo could still walk is somewhat of a miracle as well. All in all good fun Like Brazil much more now. Just a shame that Ronaldo decided he was too fat to play With the exception of all pace being gone, Brazil were still so fun and technical to watch. Norway doing their 98 tactic - but without the pace - would never end well

Always been fond of Peter Crouch since the time he answered the question "What would you be if you weren't a footballer?" with "A virgin"

I mean, who hasn't dreamt of seeing a Fat Ronaldo go up against a version of Tore Andre Flo with metallic hips?

Our version of this > Soccer Aid, this time. Purely because it has Emerson, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ze Roberto, Dida, Roberto Carlos, Bebeto and more Also some old Norwegians but fuck them. Fat Ronaldo :sweetjesus:

Pending on the time of the year, you can’t fly it before 8/9/10am and no later than 9pm - though if the sun sets prior to that you need to take it down then.

What utter tripe I’d have no problem imagining you having a flag on your living room wall, so your disagreement only aids my viewpoint. That text book straw man though. Brilliant. You're plain wrong btw. Who are you to judge when or where it's right to have the flag anyway Norway has actual laws for use of the flag, fwiw. You’re not actually allowed to hang it (a proper flag meant for a pole, not a paper flag and shit) on the wall, for instance.

What utter tripe I’d have no problem imagining you having a flag on your living room wall, so your disagreement only aids my viewpoint.

I feel you’ve not even read any posts. They aren’t originally racist, they have been given a racist context due to how they have been used and which groups have «claimed» them in the media spotlight. See my listing of proper/not proper way of using flags.

Just learned that until 2007, the lion watching his house burn down used to play at a stadium called "Gay Meadow".