And the winners are

[The_Wookie]

watching the live fox coverage:
evidently this time around we'll get the vote breakdowns for the first time ever

Russia up - 2018
Qatar - 2022

GRats to all I suppose. Was it just me or did i see the russians cheer before the name was even read out.

Australia will not be able to rebid until the 2034 event due to FIFA regulations which mean confederations cannot bid again until 2 events after the last. Pity we arent in Oceania any more...

Updating post as news comes to hand:

England 4th in the bids for 2018.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

so f*cking pissed that qatar won it

 

[Adz]

The most suitable nations won.
Now we can forget any nonsense of Australia hosting a world cup; at least in our lifetime.

 

[Korn]

yeah well done fifa, play in 50 degrees heat, someone will die from heat exhaustion for sure.

 

[darsh!]

spewin

 

[The_Eagles]

anti-anglo conspiracy I tells ya!

 

[Lightning_Rod]

wont be seeing a world cup on home soil in our life time folks.

curruption reigns supreme

 

[Zidane98]

Russia are worthy hosts of a World Cup; Qatar are not. Iberia seemed to be pretty confident of a victory thanks to Qatar's support - what happened there?

 

[Black Panther]

ROFLMAO

Australia got dumped out in the 1st Round

PAY BACK THE $50 MILL FRANK!

 

[VikingSven]

Great news on Russia, not so on Qatar.

C'est la vie.

At the end of the day, I guess FIFA isn't ready to let Australia run one.

Not good news for the HAL on which the FFA had pinned many of its hopes.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

ROFLMAO

Australia got dumped out in the 1st Round

PAY BACK THE $50 MILL FRANK!

where'd you see that?

 

[The_Wookie]

England finished 4th of 4 bids for 2018.

 

[Black Panther]

where'd you see that?

Sky News

Australia out 1st Round
Korea 2nd
Japan 3rd

 

[Zidane98]

England finished 4th of 4 bids for 2018.

Behind the Belgium/Holland bid?

 

[Zidane98]

Sky News

Australia out 1st Round
Korea 2nd
Japan 3rd

Link?

I did hear something about Bin Hammam promising some early round votes to Japan because Japan didn't want to go out in the first round.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

The most suitable nations won.
Now we can forget any nonsense of Australia hosting a world cup; at least in our lifetime.

Amen bruvva

 

[RooHooDoo]

Where do we apply to get our 45 million back from?

 

[The_Wookie]

sooo...many caps