2018 World Cup bid stadiums:

[Tastycles]

* Birmingham – Villa Park
* Bristol – proposed Bristol City Stadium
* Leeds – Elland Road
* Liverpool – Anfield or proposed Stanley Park Stadium
* London – Emirates Stadium
* London – proposed new stadium of Tottenham Hotspur or Olympic Stadium
* London – Wembley Stadium
* Manchester – City of Manchester Stadium
* Manchester – Old Trafford
* Milton Keynes – stadium:mk
* Newcastle – St James' Park
* Nottingham – proposed new Nottingham Forest stadium
* Plymouth – Home Park
* Sheffield – Hillsborough
* Sunderland – Stadium of Light

Plymouth and Milton Keynes? Are you fucking serious? Hull, Leicester and Derby miss out.

 

[The Hiphopapotamus]

I know, it's bollocks

So many good stadiums fall to the MK dons

 

[Luther_Hull]

FUCKING PLYMOUTH?!!?!?!?

I hope we don't get the fucking World Cup now.

 

[Tastycles]

I know, they've got a 20,000 seater stadium, they are in huge debt and they are about t be relegated to the third tier of football, but they get it because they are in the middle of nowhere and people might go there to watch a group game.

Hull on the other hand, well connected, and probably has significantly more hotels etc. They aren't even building a new stadium for it, but Hull, Derby and Leicester all have 21st Century stadia.

 

[Mr. TM]

Burn Plymouth down!

 

[Leeds Guy]

Yay Elland Road made it

 

[Luther_Hull]

Good to see Liverpool in there though, for the traditional World Cup violence.

 

[Loveless]

Bloody Milton Keynes and Plymouth. They only got in because of their location, which is a ridiculous requirement anyway. It's not like the UK is huge and takes ages to travel across. I mean, for fucks sake, at the World Cup next year, England will have to travel something like a 1000km between group games.

* Villa Park - Yeah sure, certainly better than Birmingham or West Brom

* Bristol - Bit of a dump really but I suppose you need somewhere in the west country

* Leeds - Absolutely

* Liverpool - Natural choice, though considering Newcastle/Sunderland I'm surprised Goodison wasn't chosen as well.

* London – Emirates Stadium
* Tottenham Hotspur or Olympic Stadium

The Olympic stadium yeah but only 1 of Arsenal and Spurs should be picked. They're too close for my liking when there are other options available.

* Wembley Stadium - Obviously

* Manchester – City of Manchester Stadium
* Manchester – Old Trafford

As much as I'd love to say fuck Old Trafford, can't really be ignored.

* Milton Keynes – Why? Because people in the midlands can't be bothered to travel 60 miles? Ludicrous. Coventry would undoubtably been better.

* Newcastle – St James' Park

If it was up to me the World Cup Final would be played here, I'll settle for a semi.

* Nottingham – Along with Leeds it's one of the great English clubs and should be included

* Plymouth – Dreadful. Surely somewhere like Southampton would have been a better choice or Portsmoth even but fucking Plymouth?

* Hillsborough - Kind of unnecessary when they're surrounded by Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester twice and Leeds.

* Sunderland – Fuck Sunderland

Looking at the map, this really is a very northern set of stadia. Those in the South not in London have been screwed and even Londoners won't be happy at the prospect of both London stadia being in the North of the capital.

 

[Tastycles]

Liverpool are very well behaved, I'll have you know. Probably not as well behaved as Milton Keynes though, but that's because people actually live there.

 

[Lee]

I'm glad Sunderland have it, if the toon has shit games I can pop down the road.

 

[Tastycles]

The more I think about it, the more ridiculous Plymouth is. There is no airport within 50 miles, and even that one is tiny, otherwise its 110 miles to Bristol, with totally shit public transport. It's a real schoolboy error of a situation, to be honest.

 

[HBK-aholic]

Yay Leeds. Someone will get killed.

 

[Luther_Hull]

If a team like Iran has to play in Leeds or Liverpool I fear the worst.

 

[Loveless]

If a team like Iran has to play in Leeds or Liverpool I fear the worst.

Ha, indeed. I've lived in Yorkshire and the West Country and they don't even like people from outside the local area, let alone brown people from other countries.