Parksey wrote:A bit annoying that the USA are getting a second world cup so soon. For all FIFA say they want to take the world cup to new places, they opted against Morocco for some reason. Might be because it was promosing double the £4bn profit the African bid cited. America will have had two in my lifetime now.
It'll be Mexico's third since 1970 too, albeit they got one when Colombia pulled out.
I'm a little bitter as it just seems to unfairly pass England by. We've had one Euros and one WC. In contrast, since we've held the WC, France have had three Euros and one WC. The last one, Platini basically admitted was rigged to give it to France while he was UEFA President.
There are noises that an England bid would be welcomed for 2030. But no doubt there'll be a bid that lines FIFA's pockets a little bit more.
It will have been 32 years since the US hosted a tournament to be fair and purely from a financial perspective, it’s the perfect time to try and increase the “soccer” brand there as it is becoming more popular.
It was a disgrace that England didn’t get 2018 - the infrastructure and stadia were the best of any of the bidders, but we now know that it was a corrupt process anyway.