Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 still beyond me why the european federations would stand for it, FIFA are fuck all but a set of corrupt shitehawks - seems a perfectly good opportunity to break away and leave them for dead to me Platini (UEFA) want's to be the next FIFA bozo so no chance of that plus they need to focus on ruining the Euros. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I understand the hatred towards the shambles but I think a winter world cup would be canny. Will bollocks up the league though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Was in Qatar last week to see Real Madrid vs Paris St. German, was impressed by the work they've been doing so far, they are on the right track, the weather will definitely be an issue if played in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 still beyond me why the european federations would stand for it, FIFA are fuck all but a set of corrupt shitehawks - seems a perfectly good opportunity to break away and leave them for dead to me Platini (UEFA) want's to be the next FIFA bozo so no chance of that plus they need to focus on ruining the Euros. don't mean UEFA i mean the individuals FA's of say england, germany, spain, france and so on to turn round and just say "aye well we're not doing that so you'd better think again" money is power, european leagues have the money...if they were facing a WC without the major european nations i'm sure this could all be resolved fairly sharpish to everyone's satisfaction...it's not like anyone actually wants this...what have they got to lose FFS? UEFA to pull the plug on them? not a fucking chance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Was in Qatar last week to see Real Madrid vs Paris St. German, was impressed by the work they've been doing so far, they are on the right track, the weather will definitely be an issue if played in the summer. So they shouldn't have been awarded it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 May well not concern any of the 'home nations' anyway lets be honest..... Complete shambolic and ill advised decisions by FIFA in the 1st place mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 still beyond me why the european federations would stand for it, FIFA are fuck all but a set of corrupt shitehawks - seems a perfectly good opportunity to break away and leave them for dead to me Platini (UEFA) want's to be the next FIFA bozo so no chance of that plus they need to focus on ruining the Euros. don't mean UEFA i mean the individuals FA's of say england, germany, spain, france and so on to turn round and just say "aye well we're not doing that so you'd better think again" money is power, european leagues have the money...if they were facing a WC without the major european nations i'm sure this could all be resolved fairly sharpish to everyone's satisfaction...it's not like anyone actually wants this...what have they got to lose FFS? UEFA to pull the plug on them? not a fucking chance Be the end of international football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 still beyond me why the european federations would stand for it, FIFA are fuck all but a set of corrupt shitehawks - seems a perfectly good opportunity to break away and leave them for dead to me Platini (UEFA) want's to be the next FIFA bozo so no chance of that plus they need to focus on ruining the Euros. don't mean UEFA i mean the individuals FA's of say england, germany, spain, france and so on to turn round and just say "aye well we're not doing that so you'd better think again" money is power, european leagues have the money...if they were facing a WC without the major european nations i'm sure this could all be resolved fairly sharpish to everyone's satisfaction...it's not like anyone actually wants this...what have they got to lose FFS? UEFA to pull the plug on them? not a fucking chance Be the end of international football. nonsense Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 So how many seasons of domestic and European competition will this bugger up? Certainly the season of the tournament and the seasons either side of it, but qualification for the world cup and potentially the 2024 Euros will be impacted. Its an absolute joke changing the timing after the award of the competition - they should have submitted a winter tournament proposal up front Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Colossus Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 So how many seasons of domestic and European competition will this bugger up? Certainly the season of the tournament and the seasons either side of it, but qualification for the world cup and potentially the 2024 Euros will be impacted. Its an absolute joke changing the timing after the award of the competition - they should have submitted a winter tournament proposal up front Even leagues where they don't play in winter would miss having a break and pre-season etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 this is what i'm saying man, it's tearing up a football calendar established over fucking decades worldwide why is everyone just acting like they're powerless to do anything about it? what do FIFA actually do, licence football clubs etc. of course but that's only because it's developed that way, just tell them to fuck off and they'll setup a new democratic FIFA, bye and thanks for all the laughs sepp winds me up man, as if FIFA wouldn't break over it, they'd ditch qatar faster than you can say howmuchmoneywillwelose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 So how many seasons of domestic and European competition will this bugger up? Certainly the season of the tournament and the seasons either side of it, but qualification for the world cup and potentially the 2024 Euros will be impacted. Its an absolute joke changing the timing after the award of the competition - they should have submitted a winter tournament proposal up front Was a football politics bloke on radio suggesting it could affect 3 seasons of football easing this 5/6 week break into it. Fucking shambles all cos FIFA are greedy fucktards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 All of this for a country around half the size of Wales, that has a population of 2m people, that lacks in cultural/tourist activities, that has backward views towards homosexuality/alcohol/etc, and has no football stadiums or football heritage whatsoever. It's bent as fuck, it couldn't be clearer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 2m people aye, of which qatari's are actually 15% or less Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 2m people aye, of which qatari's are actually 15% or less if thats true that is one staggering fact! Must be the nation with the least amount of 'native/indigenous' population? 85 % immigants?? Farage would be frothing at the mouth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Heard this on the news today. We knew it was coming, but it's still a shambles. The FAs will do owt since their palms are lined by UEFA (Spanish FA president for example is part of UEFA ruling commission). But I don't expect the leagues and clubs taking to this kindly, they aren't particularly fond of international football as it stands already. Also, the thought of La Liga playing in the middle of August Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 2m people aye, of which qatari's are actually 15% or less if thats true that is one staggering fact! Must be the nation with the least amount of 'native/indigenous' population? 85 % immigants?? Farage would be frothing at the mouth S'alreet India/Nepal/Afghanistan/Pakistan/Sri Lanka are football hotbeds so those immigrants will be tearing it up. GB - the nationals hold all the money and the majority of immigrants have little lives aside from being worked to death so I doubt they're worried. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I've said it before like but England should sit the Qatar world cup out. Tell FIFA not to bother puuting them in the draw for qualifying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I've said it before like but England should sit the Qatar world cup out. Tell FIFA not to bother puuting them in the draw for qualifying. We struggle to qualify the best of times, in 5/6 years god knows what Captain Cleverley and his mates will do for England Manager Alan Pardew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I've said it before like but England should sit the Qatar world cup out. Tell FIFA not to bother puuting them in the draw for qualifying. We struggle to qualify the best of times, in 5/6 years god knows what Captain Cleverley and his mates will do for England Manager Alan Pardew Win / win then eh? It wouldn't help the premier league as all the best players would still be missing in January but who cares. Maybe one or two other countries would follow Englands lead, but who cares about that either tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 The Premier League wouldn't carry on if just England pulled out like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 If just England pulled out the premier league would still have to stop because half the players would be away, certainly all the best ones. Like i was getting at above though, it's two fingers up to FIFA and if any other countrys want to follow suit so much the better. People seem to have forgotton that Qatar was handed the world cup because they claimed they could cool the stadia, which was obviously bullshit from the start. But Qatars bribe was clearly the biggest so let them get on with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Can imagine a winter break will be a permanent fixture after this. It will probably mean at least a break of a couple of months from the league because countries will need a couple of weeks to prepare and then post tournament will need another pre-season. Not sure whether players involved will need a break post tournament as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Anyone got any more ideas on how FIFA/UEFA can further screw international football up? Bunch of clueless self-interested wankers ruining what should be the pinnacle of the game. Would be genuinely interesting to see what happened if the powerful European associations did just tell them to do one. FIFA would be fucked. Not nearly as much money knocking around from advertising etc without the European nations. Without the bribe money knocking about to line their pockets, it wouldn't surprise me if half the FIFA delegates from developing nations lost interest in bothering with the whole thing. They're not exactly bothered about the good of the game, are they? Even better if we can get the South Americans onside too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Can imagine a winter break will be a permanent fixture after this. I look forward to the Asian Premier League Winter Break Quadrangual Playoffs and the USMPLCup not featuring USMNT live from Dayton, Ohio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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