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Pook Good Mook posted:I hope Australia sues for the money they spent on the bid back. I'm sure their bid would have been 100% stronger if they knew it could be placed in a different season so it didn't need to conflict with Australian football. Summer in Australia is too hot to play football.
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ronniegardocki posted:Summer in Australia is too hot to play football. Do you not know of the a league or is that the joke?
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Byolante posted:Do you not know of the a league or is that the joke? The A League is barely football.
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The A-League only exists for the yearly blooper reel.
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I guess my point is that playing the World Cup in January in 40 degree heat would have made Australia's bid less attractive, not more.
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ronniegardocki posted:I guess my point is that playing the World Cup in January in 40 degree heat would have made Australia's bid less attractive, not more. where in australia do you get 40 degree heat every day that would be hosting world cup matches in the theoretical universe where Australia wouldn't host it in july when its winter.
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ronniegardocki posted:I guess my point is that playing the World Cup in January in 40 degree heat would have made Australia's bid less attractive, not more. Why would you play a World Cup in Australia in January?
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mackintosh posted:Why would you play a World Cup in Australia in January? I don't know, ask the guy on the last page who said they would if they were allowed to.
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ronniegardocki posted:I don't know, ask the guy on the last page who said they would if they were allowed to. That was me, it was my understanding there was a potential conflict with stadium availability in summer but someone came in and said it wasn't as big a deal as FIFA and the media made it seem.
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Pook Good Mook posted:
We don't like to talk about it too much because we bribed a lot too apparently.. Supposedly just to the wrong people and not enough
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Adnar posted:We don't like to talk about it too much because we bribed a lot too apparently.. Supposedly just to the wrong people and not enough the FIFA is so corrupt it's actually hard to tell who to bribe. It's like a more dystopian Soviet Union.
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Has anyone at FIFA suggested building underground stadiums in Qatar yet? The slaves may not like living underground like rabbits for two years while they construct it, but they're less likely to die from the heat. Also, as it's underground and away from the light of God this means English and Italians can drink Budweiser and throw plastic chairs at each other away from God's gaze. Everyone's a winner!
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Bacon of the Sea posted:Has anyone at FIFA suggested building underground stadiums in Qatar yet? They can't, because the oil is there.
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Make the pitches out of oil imo
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dex_sda posted:Make the pitches out of oil imo It's not the Women's World Cup
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Should have made the saudis host the women's world cup first to show they are capable imo.
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mackintosh posted:Why would you play a World Cup in Australia in January? tbh I'm down for this you could bury tinnies under the pitch and dig them up at half time also all of the Serbian countries could be in the same group
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Paddyb posted:It's not the Women's World Cup cheeky
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Crazy Ted posted:You can't make this poo poo up: I always wondered how footballers would adapt to a drastic change in sleeping habits, could be interesting imo
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ahahahahaquote:FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has said a men's World Cup could be played on artificial turf "sooner rather than later". http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9540324/fifa-considers-switching-to-artificial-pitches-for-world-cup
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I guess the obvious question would be why? Enough money is spent on these tournaments in the first place, is it that big of a deal to have natural surfaces available?
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FIFA are just a humble non-profit they don't have the money for something like that
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FIFA already has approved leagues to use artificial, won't be long till they all do it 
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TheBigAristotle posted:I guess the obvious question would be why? Enough money is spent on these tournaments in the first place, is it that big of a deal to have natural surfaces available? Because they can't keep the grass alive in 40 degree deserts
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Byolante posted:Because they can't keep the grass alive in 40 degree deserts actually
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artificial grass plays way different than natural and its such loving bullshit that we're going to have a winter world cup played on an artificial surface in stadiums build by slaves
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I hope the US plays Saturday because I am going to be planted on the couch with a solid hangover. I'm kinda amazed they will have time to complete the formal bribe process by tomorrow but I guess they have it fully optimized at this point. Hail Sepp! porkface fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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May as well drain some covered swimming pools and convert the bottoms into those sandy hockey pitches at this stage tbh.
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Byolante posted:Because they can't keep the grass alive in 40 degree deserts Hegay posted:artificial grass plays way different than natural and its such loving bullshit that we're going to have a winter world cup played on an artificial surface in stadiums build by slaves
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Crazy Ted posted:Phoenix does it for their new NFL stadium without much of an issue. the speed and bounce of the ball is a huge factor
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African AIDS cum posted:the speed and bounce of the ball is a huge factor
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Crazy Ted posted:It is, but at least you can adjust to that if you have to. You can't really adjust to extra pounding it puts your body through. I still can't imagine how NFL players used to play on that old fake green poo poo. Wasn't there actually an English team that tried that in the 80's? True it is all around pure poo poo. I bet FIFA are saying this to stem the tide of the women wanting to play on grass, luckily twitter is distracted by gamergate and catcalling and has yet to really dig into Blatter.
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What's to dig into?
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Crazy Ted posted:It is, but at least you can adjust to that if you have to. You can't really adjust to extra pounding it puts your body through. I still can't imagine how NFL players used to play on that old fake green poo poo. Wasn't there actually an English team that tried that in the 80's? A few did. QPR were the first, and the first to remove it as well iirc
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My old local football team played on artificial turf. Feltham utd. Or something. Either way youths burnt down the only stand that should tell you all you need to know. Also sand, so much sand.
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Artificial grass is sadly becoming the standard here in Norway, even in places that traditionally had no problems maintaining a proper grass pitch. The only places where that poo poo is needed is for the clubs up north where winter can last into may.
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When transfer fees and player wages are what they are today, why is "how much does the grass cost?" a real question?
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because you touch yourself at night in other seep news, fifa showed crimea as part of russia in the presentation video of the 2018 world cup and then removed it and apologized http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/30/fifa-apologises-video-crimea-ukraine-world-cup haha
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By 2018, it will be.
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Lamont Cranston posted:A few did. QPR were the first, and the first to remove it as well iirc I always remember Luton's being a running joke. AstroTurf was invented by Mosanto, which I believe makes it more evil than Blatter.
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