Good grief - what happened here!!! Ok lets get one or two things straight. First I stand by my opinion that the 4 other bids in the running for 22 were commercially and technically superior to the Qatar bid - whatever criteria FIFA were using to select Russia and Qatar, it WASNT the technical evaluation which rated Qatar in particular as "High Risk" - one of the few bids ever to have been awarded that dubious category in the recent history of world cup bidding. So in that respect the English FA are right - why bother bidding if the presented evidence isnt going to be taken into consideration - so in that respect Qatarigirlzdontflirt, you are right but please dont try and put words in my mouth by way of explanation on my behalf - not necessary!!!I stand by all of the points I raised during pre award debate - nothing has changed - I thought and think that the decision is ludicrous but there you go - it is what it is and we all have to get on with proving to an incredulous world that this country DOES have what it takes - after all, thats what we were told by the bid team and now have been told by FIFA - Im dubious!! But this is clearly going back over old old ground and frankly Im bored with debating the issue now. By the way, my apology was not for my opinion but for some of the inflamatory language and tone that I used with certain debators in the lead up to Thursday - unnecessary and probably rude; as someone who was "raised to be respectful..." Alumnar, I'm presuming you would sanction an apology for that!!
The rest of the thread above is bizarre to say the least - so many keyboard warriors!!
Good grief - what happened here!!! Ok lets get one or two things straight. First I stand by my opinion that the 4 other bids in the running for 22 were commercially and technically superior to the Qatar bid - whatever criteria FIFA were using to select Russia and Qatar, it WASNT the technical evaluation which rated Qatar in particular as "High Risk" - one of the few bids ever to have been awarded that dubious category in the recent history of world cup bidding. So in that respect the English FA are right - why bother bidding if the presented evidence isnt going to be taken into consideration - so in that respect Qatarigirlzdontflirt, you are right but please dont try and put words in my mouth by way of explanation on my behalf - not necessary!!!I stand by all of the points I raised during pre award debate - nothing has changed - I thought and think that the decision is ludicrous but there you go - it is what it is and we all have to get on with proving to an incredulous world that this country DOES have what it takes - after all, thats what we were told by the bid team and now have been told by FIFA - Im dubious!! But this is clearly going back over old old ground and frankly Im bored with debating the issue now. By the way, my apology was not for my opinion but for some of the inflamatory language and tone that I used with certain debators in the lead up to Thursday - unnecessary and probably rude; as someone who was "raised to be respectful..." Alumnar, I'm presuming you would sanction an apology for that!!
The rest of the thread above is bizarre to say the least - so many keyboard warriors!!