Russia 2018, Qatar 2022

Really!?!?!?!?!? Somebody actually thinks having a World Cup in Qatar is a good idea?!? Is anybody going to go to a country where alcohol is illegal, average temp in the summer is 118F , and thousands of terrorists are a tank full of gas away?

Somebody please explain how this is for the good of the game

Not that I can see Scotland being there for eithier tournament but Quatar was a surprising choice for me as Mr F said there is the issue with alochol and the rest this place has stricts laws on everything pretty sure it's illegal to show to much skin like wearing a sleveless shirt but the biggest thing is this is a country that has no experience of hosting major events, I personally would have loved to seee the Ozzies get it but i dont even know if they applied for 2022. I wouldnt worry to much about the terror threat fans are going to at just as much risk in Russia ( Checyan terrorism) or the UK (Al Quieda) it can happen anywhere.

TBH I am not to crazy about Russia getting the tournament eithier I mean it's hardly the most open country in the world is it.

I think the point was to support "developing" nations rather than established ones so FIFA looked for someone who could develop the sport in their nation rather than ones that would just "benefit" from it. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if the votes were bought by Russia and Quatar - FIFA hardly has a spotless reputation where curruption is concerned - but I couldn't care less in truth, I dont follow international football and couldn't give a damn about the World Cup - I watched Top Gear instead of the World Cup Final this year!! - so I cant bring myself to have an opinion one way or another.

On a side note I do remember Sepp Blatter telling the Australians not to put in a bid this time because he would not allow any bids from Oceania to be considered this time round. I still say he should be fired!!!

That's one way to stamp out football hooliganism, I guess. I couldn't really care less where it is, since I only ever see the games on TV anyway. The government of Qatar can't stop me from drinking at home, can they?

Qatar is a poor choice for a place to host it. The U.S. had an amazing cup, and we could have had another. The people that come here enjoy far more freedoms than they will in Qatar without the risk of being targeted for being a Westerner. I can't imagine that many women will want to go there. The Cup should be a party atmosphere, and Qatar is not that( unless you count their numerous human rights violations and sex trafficking).

One thing that has annoyed me about the result is this bid is the attitude of the England team at losing, all we have heard is how corrupt FIFA is and how wrong the whole process is etc etc now everyone is entitled to an opinion and a majority of what they are saying maybe correct but all of that was forgotten when they were cosying up to all these corrupt offcial and now they didn' get what they want they are going to bad mouth them , well I am sorry but I would have more respet for an FA fight against FIFA if they had fought corruption for the good of the game and not for the good fo themselves.

It has sounded like sour grapes in truth but if it is true that those in FIFA and those in the know said England had the best bid, the best presentation and so on then it does seem a bit wierd that the bid didn't get past the first round. It would make more sense, if England's bid was the best on the table, for England to get through to the final picks but lose because FIFA want to support "developing" Football nation but instead it appears that FIFA just didn't like the BBC - in their capacity as an independent, (supposedly) unbiased company - looking into allegations of corruption within FIFA and decided to punish the English bid.

As a non-fan of the England Football Team and someone who doesn't follow International Football my reaction has been "you lost, get over it" but as a critic of Sepp Blatter and FIFA I cannot help but wonder if there was some underhand tactics being deployed in the voting system and wishing for an independent inquiry into the inner workings of that organisation - but as a critic of Sepp Blatter I know he will never allow an outside inquiry into the inner working of FIFA to happen.

Just read on Yahoo that there is talk of playing the 2022 World cup in January because it's to hot to play in the summer, apparently Quatar has technology that can contorl the temprature in the stadiums but a January WC might be seen as a better and cheaper option. If they do this it will cause chaos throughout Europe and other leagues that play through winter it is going to be a disaster really. If the temp is to hot in summer that should have been thought about in the beggining.

Australia losing the bid means my state looses $250 million in federal funding for our new sports stadium, which sucks.

I didn't think Australia's bid was very strong, our video was shockingly poor, it was like a tourist commercial based on Kangaroo Jack, whoever came up with that idea needs to be shot. Can we not put Crocodile Dundee in everything? It's like the whole thing was made by foreigners who still think that's all we have to offer the world.