Uefa backs moving 2022 world cup to Winter

Jeez

Blatter n Platini are a disgrace.

 

Could this be a lead up to regular winter breaks in our season? Aint some managers asked for this in the past? If it did happen they could use the spare time to play lucrative friendly competitions. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

 

So the world cup is a 4 week competition and the managers will want their teams to get together for say 4 or 5 weeks before the competition. Let us say for sake of argument that this means a 9 week break. Again, let us assume the break will be December and January. The football league cannot add two months to the end of the season (May and June)(presume the FA Cup final will be at the beginning of July) and hope to begin pre-season in July in the hope of starting the following season in August. The following season cannot therefore begin until September at the earliest, which means the season that follows cannot end until June.

I could be wrong, be I think that the British public like to watch their football played in winter, when the players can play at a high tempo. The Christmas fixtures would of course be lost, and my guess is that the British game would lose even more in revenue due to more games being scheduled for the summer holiday period.

To put it mildly, I am extremely fed up that FIFA have decided that their competition should take precedence over 150 years of tradition and history that is the British game. It looks like EUFA are prepared to roll over take it, simply to endorse what was a crazy decision in the first place, that is awarding the worlds most prestigious competition to a country with neither the climate to play the game nor the traditions or history of sport. Add to this the instability that is right on the doorstep and the incompetence and corruption at the heart of the world football organisation is there for all to see. I was very annoyed at the time of the award of the competition, and as you have read, time has not mellowed my opinion.

 

Why should the rest of the football world comply just because of the "tradition and history of the British game"?

Don't Southern hemisphere countries play in our summer? Don't Brazil, Argentina etc have to always alter their season to allow for the World Cup? So why can't we do it for 1 tournament? What is wrong here is that this should have been part of the initial plan for the Qatar world cup. We've got 8 years to make the arrangements.

 

Couldn't agree more with this

The whole thing has stunk since they were awarded the tournament to start with. I don't buy that they completely overlooked the climate when the bid was originally approved. More proof that the whole process was fixed in the first place if you ask me.

IF it's settled that the tournament is to be played in Qatar, it should be moved to winter, i'm sure the Premier league can start/finish a fortnight earlier and later for a change.

 

I reckon that there are enough international players in the Championship to ensure it will close down as well, otherwise why are we involved in the international break.

 

Fair enough. I will sit and seethe on my own.

 

But it's called the "world" cup and we've had it so good for so long. Now it's time for another part of the world to be accomodated for just the one off time. Plus we've nine years to cope with it. We'd still get winter football with the competition going on. However instead of watching us lose regularly in near zero conditions we get the time off and can instead watch us for two extra months when it will be warmer. Many managers also want the mid season break. I don't think revenue would be lost due to the holiday period. Most people go for say a week or fortnight max somewhere on holiday in one go so can easily plan it around an away game so they don't miss an home game. Plus playing in June/July league games instead of December/January I believe would BUMP revenue as people are more likely to watch us play in warm/dry weather.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with a winter tournament, it's a global game and we can't have everything tailored for us. However, it should only ever be moved for proper reasons, for example a country like Australia hosting it who are becoming a football nation. Not some pisspot place like Qatar who don't give a **** and have bought it.

 

surely theres a bigger argument

for going back to the tendering stage, if they based their bid on a flawed proposal the other countries that were in with a chance of staging it that year were not given a fair chance. Blatter couldn't run the proverbial, one day it will make interesting reading when all the ins and outs of his reign are known methinks

 

Technically, most of the South American countries have two league competitions per year and World Cups, etc fall into the gap between these competitions. Brazil is slightly different as the first part of the year is state championships and the second part the national league (which took a month break for the confederations cup). Most of the top players in the national sides play in Europe anyway, so it does not necessarily affect their leagues too much either.

 

UEFA have got to back it, or they will look as daft as that other association FIFA

 

Everything about this is a scandal. Blatter actually said that awarding a summer competition to Qatar may have been a mistake. No **** Sherlock but was he and his cronies the only people who didn't know that the Gulf is the hottest place on earth at that time of year. Of course they knew but they are as bent as a nine bob note and this has just shown them up for what they really are. I hope the associations who also bid for this 'summer' competition and who missed out due to corruption sue the arses of FIFA.

 

I wonder if any of the other countries FA's have the bottle to pull out.

that would send a clear enough message ... but it will not happen.

 

Yeah I reckon more people would be open to a winter world cup if it meant getting out of our dark/cold winter nights and spending some december time in Australia for the world cup.

 

Re: I wonder if any of the other countries FA's have the bottle to pull out.

i believe i heard australia are going to sue

 

I do hope so, we need a court of law to pick the bones of this process and decision. FIFA would probably settle out of court mind to avoid the interrogation. They can get their rich sheikh bed pals to pay.

 

Should have given us the 2022 world cup.

Oh silly me I forgot that Blatter and all the other FA organisations of the world hate us.