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.
To be fair, I think the Morocco bid had a lot of bid attached to it. They needed a lot of investment in stadium and infrastructure and I'm not sure it would have been good for the country to host it. Would have been a risk all round.
England have a right to be bitter. The bid really should have won in 2018 and probably would have on a fair playing field without corruption.
A 2030 bid will have to go up against Uruguay who are going to bid with Argentina and have the advantage of it being the 100 year anniversary of the first.