Public to kick in $1 Billion for World Cup Trimmings

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From the Sydney Morning Herald:

TAXPAYERS face a $1 billion bill for beefed-up security, public transport, customs and immigration services if Australia hosts the FIFA World Cup in 2022.

The federal and state governments have promised the Football Federation of Australia they will pay a substantial share of the costs of staging the tournament if the bid is successful.

No cost estimates have been made public, but the Herald has been told government undertakings are about $1 billion.

This is on top of federal and state guarantees covering the Australian federation's plans to spend $2.8 billion on new stadiums in Sydney, Canberra and Perth and on upgrading nine other stadiums if the bid succeeds.

FIFA is due to announce on December 2 which country will host the 2022 World Cup.

Australia is competing against the United States, Japan, Korea and Qatar but has been rated by the World Football Insider newsletter as having the second weakest bid.

The head of media relations for the Australian bid, Rod Allen, said the bid had ''full federal, state and territory backing to the tune of $2.8 billion in new or upgraded stadiums and surrounding infrastructure''.

''We are not releasing a breakdown of the figures for each individual government, host city or stadium but we will in due course if we are successful,'' he said.

A spokeswoman for the Minister for Sport, Mark Arbib, said bidding countries had to provide government guarantees that stadiums, infrastructure, security, transport and other services would be delivered.

She said it was too soon to say how much money the governments would provide. ''If we are successful at winning the World Cup, we will then sit down with FIFA and negotiate the details.''
 

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Had a look at World football Insider.

Quite informative, but the bias towards the bids with advertising space on the site is evident.

Australia rated down for stadia, (we all know the obvioaus issues) but for holland belgium the quote "Our biggest problem is which of two 80,000 stadium to use for the final"

Ditto australia except one is 100,000 and the ither probably will be.
 
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WFI is sponsored by the Doha bid:eek:

Was waiting for this article.No doubt plenty more in the last 30 days

Very strange that he would be so bitter to put such an out of date and biased link in.Eg-we should easily have the best points re safety/security
There is no money spent if we don't win

At this point ,my personal analysis puts us as a better the 50% chance to win
 
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This is true.Blatter has tried to turn the debate into "entrapment":eek:

Its quite obvious that he will not be voting England.He never was anyway but it seems that they will have to win it without him,and Thailand
 
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  • The 2018 vote will take place first, then the 2022 one. The vote will be by secret ballot and all eligible members of the FIFA Executive Committee can vote in both ballots
  • To win the right to host the competition, a bidder must obtain an absolute majority (50% + 1) of the votes of the FIFA Executive Committee members present
  • In the event of a tie when only two bidders remain, the FIFA President will have the casting vote
  • For any voting round in which an absolute majority is not achieved, the bidder with the lowest number of votes will not progress to the next voting round
  • If there is a tie for the lowest number of votes in any round, an intermediate voting round will be conducted to determine which of the tied bidders does not progress
Blatter mentioned at the FIFA Congress in Sydney that if votes were tied he would vote for us:thumbsu:
 
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