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Vengarr posted:America
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Vengarr posted:As someone who was not fully sentient at the time, what was the problem with the '94 World Cup that makes it so America can never host it ever again denim uniforms also we made fifa pay for mls i think.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 04:41 |
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It's easy to hate America. They hate us 'cause they ain't us *flies off in jetpack*
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 04:49 |
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Vengarr posted:As someone who was not fully sentient at the time, what was the problem with the '94 World Cup that makes it so America can never host it ever again American broadcasters wanted to split the game into quarters for more add breaks.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 04:59 |
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Scapegoat posted:American broadcasters wanted to split the game into quarters for more add breaks. did they
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:07 |
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Yeah, I remember that being a thing. The '94 world cup was the first time i can ever remember watching a broadcast in America that wasn't interrupted after 7 minutes. Was kinda amazing at the time.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:15 |
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Spangly A posted:Everyone realises that Sepp Blatter cutting and running when the Americans came for him was always happening right? I've noticed that you're very good at predicting things that have happened in the past
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:15 |
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One element to consider is that the sheer scale and majesty of our great nation may be unsettling to visiting fans. (holding matches on opposite sides of a continent is loving crazy) As a solution I propose hosting the next "US" World Cup entirely within the Great State of Texas whose obscene number of pre-existing, high capacity (american) football stadiums could service the whole event as-is.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:17 |
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Cool. That's cool. I enjoyed reading about this.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:20 |
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Qatar posted:An article in the Washington Post on 27 May ("The Human Toll of FIFA’s Corruption") claimed that 4,000 workers are likely to die while working on World Cup sites, and that some 1,200 had already lost their lives. This is completely untrue. In fact, after almost five million work-hours on World Cup construction sites, not a single worker’s life has been lost. Not one. Quatar was innocent the whole time
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:24 |
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Well yea they're slaves not workers, barely even people.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:29 |
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Humphrey Vasel posted:Quatar was innocent the whole time So was OJ
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:29 |
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* Individuals building the stadiums are independent contractors, not workers. Qatar assumes no responsibility for the well-being of those not under its employ.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:30 |
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tbp posted:Whoa - watch the racism. We don't talk like that here, buddy. Shrapnig posted:In a shocking twist the CAF is awarded zero spots for the Nuovo Italia World Cup Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jun 3, 2015 |
# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:32 |
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But on the bright side, moving the World Cup from Qatar will entirely solve the migrant worker abuse issue.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:39 |
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MikeJF posted:But on the bright side, moving the World Cup from Qatar will entirely solve the migrant worker abuse issue. I think its a good thing outside scrutiny has made Qatar clean up its act in regards to murder and slavery.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 05:48 |
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more Quatar posted:We would urge Mr Dyke to let the legal process take its course and concentrate on delivering his promise to build an England team capable of winning the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar. poo poo son http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/jun/03/sepp-blatter-reports-fifa-president-us-corruption-probe-live for more unless you hate the Guardian for being owned by murdoch or something
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:09 |
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Vengarr posted:As someone who was not fully sentient at the time, what was the problem with the '94 World Cup that makes it so America can never host it ever again
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:10 |
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A reminder that the cool & good non-World Cup organizing but Man City owning Abu Dhabi ruling family had one of its members run over an 'employee' with his SUV and shooting at the dude with an assault rifle. This was captured on video. Also, their figurehead president is a closeted homo and has mysteriously been held in an artificial coma for more than a year now while his brother hobnobs with the world's most powerful; a leaked US embassy cable calling him the shadow leader of the country or something. No one openly acknowledges these things. 2022 would be in better hands with Iran than with Gulf Arabs.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:14 |
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There is more to a world cup than attendance. Imagine making the once in a life journey to see a world cup only to end up traversing the massive breath of the united states to end up at a shithole like Orlando or god forbid, Detroit. People had to actually go to Detroit, what a terrible thing to do to a human being.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:18 |
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Koesj posted:2022 would be in better hands with Iran than with Gulf Arabs. Unless they steal something
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:18 |
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or one of the players comes out as a gay dude
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:20 |
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Blue Star Error posted:Unless they steal something lol All those thing equally apply on the other side of the gulf tho. Probably the only majority muslim place outside major european cities where the cup should be held is turkey, they're the knifest people.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:23 |
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Ok here's a idea. Weight voting so that only the top 10 teams based on ranking from each federation get a full vote. Everyone else get's their votes cut. 10-20 get half a vote. 20-30 get a quarter vote. 30-40 get 1/8th vote. 40+ get 1/10th vote. Total votes are rounded up. UEFA = 19 Votes Conmebol = 10 Votes Concacaf = 19 Votes CAF = 19 Votes AFC = 19 Votes OFC = 11 Votes 15+2.5+1.25+1 Weighted Vote for Blatter vs Ali Ali = 30 Blatter = 53 Voting is further weighted by combined ranking of top 3 teams in each federation. The top 2 federations keep same amount of votes. 3rd and 4th lose 2 votes. 5th loses 4 votes. 6th loses 6 votes. UEFA = 19 Votes Conmebol = 10 Votes Concacaf = 17 votes AFC = 17 Votes CAF = 15 Votes OFC = 5 Votes Ali = 38 Blatter = 45 Voting is finally weighted by population to ranking ratio. The federation with the highest population to rank ratio receives 3 extra votes. The federation with the second receives 2 extra votes. All other federation are penalized 1 point. These are rewarded to the countries with the lowest population to ranking ratio. Uefa = 21 Votes Conmebol = 13 Votes Concacaf = 16 Votes AFC = 16 Votes CAF = 14 Votes OFC = 4 Votes Ali = 41 Blatter = 43
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:46 |
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Ciprian Maricon posted:People had to actually go to Detroit, what a terrible thing to do to a human being.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:56 |
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bawfuls posted:It set a record for attendance and made Euro soccer fans mad because dumb yanks don't care about the beautiful game or something. If the U.S. was to host it again, it would be far better to stage it in such a way so that the groups were concentrated in regions so that teams didn't have to travel for more than a few hundred miles for their games at the start. Obviously once you hit the knockout stages anything goes, but doing everything possible to help reduce the travel load on the players, and the fans, would be a good thing.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 06:58 |
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PerpetualSelf posted:Ok here's a idea. LOOK AT THIS loving POST!!!
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:01 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Seriouspost: the fundamental problem with having the World Cup in the United States is that you're spreading it across an area the size of Continental Europe. If memory serves me correctly, in 1994 no such considerations were made for this and teams would have to travel a thousand miles or more for games in the group stage. No doubt that would have been a burden on traveling supporters too. Brazil is larger than the continental US. Manaus-Porto Alegre are farther apart than Atlanta-LA.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:10 |
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Gas this thread
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:12 |
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Polidoro posted:LOOK AT THIS loving POST!!! Advanced stats are insanely good op
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:19 |
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I think the best part of those advanced stats is that at no point do they change anything at all
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:20 |
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Ciprian Maricon posted:There is more to a world cup than attendance. Yeah but you can just hop across to Windsor for strippers and casinos and meth.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:22 |
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julian assflange posted:Gas this thread The thread should be gassed when Blatter officially steps down imo.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:23 |
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PerpetualSelf posted:Ok here's a idea. source your quotes
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:39 |
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PerpetualSelf posted:Ok here's a idea. Holy poo poo.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:41 |
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I 'm a progressive guy, I watch MSNBC and think concussions are real bad, and I eat kale, but hear me out, I want USA to host cause it would be cool if thousands or millions of our migrant workers were killed or at least maimed. There are just too many of them.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:44 |
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PerpetualSelf posted:Ok here's a idea. Lol
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:49 |
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axeil posted:denim uniforms i still have one of these i think
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:56 |
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The 1990's were a strange time. Most things featured denim or dayglo colors. The 1994 World Cup was not immune to this illness, regardless of where it was held.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 07:59 |
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corn in the fridge posted:i still have one of these i think they're worth a good amount now
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