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http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/38449674 gently caress. Off
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I can see it's a ploy to make the coming disasters in Russia and Qatar look like the best tournaments in hindsight.
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Why does everyone think the Russian World Cup itself will be a disaster? They got it through massive corruption and will spend a bunch of money that the population needs more, but I don't see any hurdles to them putting on an enjoyable event for the fans. Qatar is hosed though, no amount of money can deal with the heat, weird cultural laws or lack of a team.
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deep space nein posted:Russia is hosed though, no amount of money can deal with the heat, weird cultural laws or lack of a team.
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Russia will be fine, the only reason not to go would be your own personal disagreements.
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Russia will be fine, the only reason not to go would be your own personal disagreements. and also if you're black and/or don't want to be beaten up by the Russian supporters while the government cheers them on
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that's just the side games
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Russia will be fine, the only reason not to go would be your own personal disagreements. A glimpse of things to come 
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Begall posted:and also if you're black and/or don't want to be beaten up by the Russian supporters while the government cheers them on Yeah, Russians will definitely be out in force to kick the poo poo out of non-whites and gay people. But this is TRP, so we just make tired jokes about athleticism and poo poo.
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deep space nein posted:Why does everyone think the Russian World Cup itself will be a disaster? They got it through massive corruption and will spend a bunch of money that the population needs more, but I don't see any hurdles to them putting on an enjoyable event for the fans. If only there was some major sporting event russia hosted in the last couple of years we could use to gauge how the next one would go http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1952496-the-20-biggest-sochiproblems But no, we will never know
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deep space nein posted:Why does everyone think the Russian World Cup itself will be a disaster? They got it through massive corruption and will spend a bunch of money that the population needs more, but I don't see any hurdles to them putting on an enjoyable event for the fans. oh, well that's all right then
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Byolante posted:If only there was some major sporting event russia hosted in the last couple of years we could use to gauge how the next one would go Actually, since there won't be anything resembling the Olympic Village, and a lot of what was upon the organizing committee in Sochi will rest upon the private sector in 2017/18, it's more likely than not that everything will vary greatly from city to city. I can totally see cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad hosting their respective parts without a hitch, and back asswards shitheaps like Saransk, Sochi, or Rostov loving everything up so spectacularly that it will dwarf anything anyone saw in RSA, Brazil, or Sochi There is only one thing that will be a universal constant throughout the entire tournament and it's that there will be a lot of riot police everywhere
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Oh cool, the Russian private sector that has brought us stellar things such as Lolita and not the AK47.
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"I got this sweet new car/phone/TV/ not bride/ and it was designed in Russia!" I said, with a hint of pride.
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The funniest part of Sochi was when the GBS thread started calling it Grovergrad and then posted some funny photos of stuff
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If 3rd world countries like South Africa and Brazil were able to host the World Cup, Russia will be fine. It's been a while since the vote, but could someone refresh my memory as to how Russia won the vote? I'm assuming it was bribes, FIFA looking to "expand the game", people wanting to gently caress over England, Spain and Portugal, and Russia having a bunch of political connections to small countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Iran and Belarus? There hasn't been nearly as much press about the Russia vote as compared to the Qatar vote. Hashtag Banterzone fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:If 3rd world countries like South Africa and Brazil were able to host the World Cup, Russia will be fine. it was rigged to be russia-usa but qatar bribed a few of the council to vote their way instead
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I just realized that Trump is 100% gonna go to Russia if America qualifies. Not a sure thing at this point.
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Russia is a defensible choice if you don't think too hard about it Qatar is indefensible in every way except bribes and complete overshadowed Russia
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Russia is no more corrupt a choice than standard FIFA. Qatar is the one that made everyone realize that FIFA officials are n9w so corrupt they pretty much view it as a game to be won.
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deep space nein posted:Why does everyone think the Russian World Cup itself will be a disaster? They got it through massive corruption and will spend a bunch of money that the population needs more, but I don't see any hurdles to them putting on an enjoyable event for the fans. It will be fine. Even Sochi didn't turn out that bad after all the fearmongering, and they won't be building a city in the middle of nowhere this time.
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so nobody's expecting any Argentina-level shenanigans with Russia, a team currently banned from the olympics for cheating? Imagine the Korea wc except with players that might actually be able to win a game if the refs cheat hard enough
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Spangly A posted:so nobody's expecting any Argentina-level shenanigans with Russia, a team currently banned from the olympics for cheating? I'm pretty sure the entire Russian team could go to Rich Piana levels of juicing and they'd still go out to Nigeria in the second round
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FullLeatherJacket posted:I'm pretty sure the entire Russian team could go to Rich Piana levels of juicing and they'd still go out to New Zealand in the group stage
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Spangly A posted:so nobody's expecting any Argentina-level shenanigans with Russia, a team currently banned from the olympics for cheating? Russia was old, slow, and bad in the Euros and I really doubt they have any good young players in the pipeline
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/08/said-and-done-football-diary-china-uli-hoeness-transfersquote:2) Zimbabwe FA head Phillip Chiyangwa – multimillionaire Youtuber AKA Captain Fiasco – on how he won the Council of Southern Africa FAs presidency last month. “I had to apply my master’s technique. President Mugabe taught me that if you apply the scorched earth approach, you won’t go wrong. I used tactics I was taught by the grandmaster Mugabe, and here I am.”
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Sky Shadowing posted:Russia is no more corrupt a choice than standard FIFA. Qatar is the one that made everyone realize that FIFA officials are n9w so corrupt they pretty much view it as a game to be won. Russia won the bid with oil money but it's defensible because they have an actual league and stadiums and so on, and could run a World Cup without building the entire thing from scratch. It was the worst of the 2018 bids (only one not rated low risk, up against England, Belgium/Netherlands, and Spain/Portugal any of which could have hosted it easily), and it will probably have issues with facilities in some of the poorer cities and with Russian fans, but if you tilt your head and apply FIFA's stated logic of wanting to take the game to new places you can kind of understand it after SA and Brazil. But Qatar is so obviously corrupt that it makes it abundantly clear that Russia bribed their way to it too. My favourite Qatar story is when Sepp said he had actually rigged the vote in favour of the US and was super pissed when it turned out the Qataris had rigged it better than him.
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Hey now, that's a bit more than 210.000.000.000.000.000 Zimbabwean bucks, cut the FA some slack.
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lets rememebr all the blacks and gays killed during ukraine-poland 😔 😔 😔 rip sol campbell 🙏
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advanced statsman posted:lets rememebr all the blacks and gays killed during ukraine-poland 😔 😔 😔 rip sol campbell 🙏 Trump will lift all economic sanctions just in time for the Russian fans to buy bananas to throw on the field.
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Byolante posted:If only there was some major sporting event russia hosted in the last couple of years we could use to gauge how the next one would go Man sorry to have missed this quote:The Sochi Olympics (for some unknown reason) boasts a trio of strange animal mascots, each one creepier than the last. The polar bear, which Deadspin very accurately dubbed “Nightmare Bear,” is definitely the most unsettling.
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The 2018WC mascot is a loving anthropomorphic wolf, and by now it predictably exists primarily in the form of furry porn, so nothing can possibly go wrong in that regard
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48 teams for the world cup 2026, 16 groups of three, it's official http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/sports/fifa-world-cup.html https://twitter.com/fifamedia/status/818753191449948160
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Kurtofan posted:48 teams for the world cup 2026, 16 groups of three, it's official RIP the world cup, soon every knockout tie will be a 2 match affair
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I'm more concerned about how long it will take for me to complete my online Panini album with all these extra teams
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Kurtofan posted:48 teams for the world cup 2026, 16 groups of three, it's official loving unanimous, ahahaha even the Europeans voted for it just get it over with and expand the World Cup to 211 teams already, that's the logical end result
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Kurtofan posted:48 teams for the world cup 2026, 16 groups of three, it's official Canada still won't qualify Heh Hehehehe Heh 
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Or Scotland lmao
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julian assflange posted:Or Scotland lmao https://twitter.com/richard_conway/status/818797974977396736
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