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Andy @ Allerton

Andy @ Allerton

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What are you on about now?

 

 

The FA's new push to host the World Cup is called "England United" and has loads of Mancs featuring.

 

Great stuff! Nice to see the FA is as impartial as they have been all season.

Andy @ Allerton

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http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/WorldCup2018/Ne.../BidLaunch.aspx

 

England united, the world invited

Monday, 18 May, 2009

 

England's World Cup bid will be launched today at Wembley Stadium.

 

England’s bid to host the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup will be officially launched at Wembley Stadium later today.

 

A number of high-profile guests have been invited to the launch including England Manager, Fabio Capello, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, FA Chairman, Lord Triesman, Sir Geoff Hurst, Sir Bobby Charlton, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney. The FA’s President HRH Prince William will also send a special satellite-link message of support. The launch gets underway at midday.

 

Other nations who have expressed interest in hosting world football’s showpiece event in 2018 or 2022 are Australia, Belgium-Netherlands (joint bid), Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Portugal-Spain (joint bid), Russia, USA, Qatar (2022 only) and South Korea (2022 only).

 

"This is the most competitive bid there has ever been," said Andy Anson, Chief Executive to the Bid project. "[FIFA] have done away with the rotation policy of different continents so we have impressive rivals from all around the world.

 

"We have to be aware that we have no special right to stage the World Cup and we will have to earn it.

 

"We will be looking to build on the passion evident in football all around the country as we have people playing football everywhere and fans filling stadiums every week throughout the Premier League and Football League," he continued.

 

"Our stadiums are excellent and in Wembley we have an iconic venue. We also have to stress how we can help develop football around the world."

 

FIFA will confirm the hosts of both World Cups in December 2010.

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With Gordo Broon promising to do everything he can to aid a 2018 bid it is quite safe to say that England will next host the World Cup in 2070.

Stevie H

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A number of high-profile guests have been invited to the launch including England Manager, Fabio Capello, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, FA Chairman, Lord Triesman, Sir Geoff Hurst, Sir Bobby Charlton, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney. The FA’s President HRH Prince William will also send a special satellite-link message of support. The launch gets underway at midday.

interesting that they didn't mention that richard barnbrook, racist BNP member of the GLA, was there too welcoming people from all nations to england.

Des

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The FA's new push to host the World Cup is called "England United" and has loads of Mancs featuring.

 

Great stuff! Nice to see the FA is as impartial as they have been all season.

 

Lunatic.

Ostrich Man

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The FA's new push to host the World Cup is called "England United" and has loads of Mancs featuring.

 

Great stuff! Nice to see the FA is as impartial as they have been all season.

West Ham? Newcastle? Sheffield? Carlisle?

 

etc etc etc.

 

 

eh Andy? Isnt that one of your usual tedious points?

Paddy 66

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Andy, thats really stretching things to try and show the FA are bent by using half of a phrase to prove a point. Whether the FA are corrupt or not and there have been a few things which have caused a few raised eyebrows, this isn't one of them and to try and use it to prove your point, does the exact opposite.

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they really are making a right horse's a*** of this lanch.

 

World Cup 2018 bid in crisis talks to defuse race row

 

• Herman Ouseley and Garth Crooks attack bid's lack of diversity

• 'England 2018 has to be careful it doesn't alienate people'

Matt Scott

The Guardian, Wednesday 20 May 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/ma...p-2018-race-row

 

Herman Ouseley has criticised England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Photograph: ITV/Rex Features.

 

England 2018 will today attend a crisis meeting with the game's leading black and minority-ethnic figures after the World Cup bid came under attack last night for a lack of awareness on ­diversity issues.

 

The accidental invitation of a British National Party councillor to the launch of the World Cup bid campaign on ­Monday has proved hugely damaging to ­internal relations in the game. Andy Anson, the bid's chief executive, will be warned three days into the formal 2018 campaign that some feel strongly enough to destabilise it with direct action towards the Fifa executive committee members who will award the right to host the tournament.

 

"England 2018 has to be careful it doesn't alienate people because if ­individuals feel offended by its associations with undesirables they could make life difficult for the bid by making their views known to important people whose ­decision it will be. I know people who are up for that," said Herman Ouseley, the peer who is chairman of football's anti-racist movement, Kick It Out. "But ­people really do want the bid to succeed on the right basis. We want to see how it will be more ­inclusive, how there will be more BME [black and minority ethnic] representation, more women and a broader base contributing to the bid."

 

Valerie Amos, who is also a black peer, serves on the bid board, with John Barnes and Hope Powell, the England women's team coach, acting as vice-presidents. But Lord Ouseley warned that the bid campaign is in danger of "gross complacency" if it believes that, in appointing them, its responsibilities to BME communities have been fulfilled. He said: "Therein lies the problem. You then feel you don't have to go further and the reality is it's tokenism."

 

Although England 2018 did send an invitation to Ouseley for the launch event Piara Powar, his chief executive at Kick It Out, was not invited. The internationally connected Kick It Out would be a hugely valuable asset for the bid.

 

There is also dismay that, although ­Baroness Amos attended Monday's launch, Barnes and Powell were otherwise engaged and everyone who addressed the audience was white and male. According to Garth Crooks, the BBC broadcaster and former footballer who acts as an adviser to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, this compounded the mistake over the BNP councillor's invitation.

 

"What I find so desperately sad is that whatever your view about the BNP being there, there is a bigger view. If it had been a really diverse event, if there had been a selection of BME groups there, we could have got over this," said Crooks, noting that the Professional Footballers' ­Association chairman, Chris Powell, and deputy chief executive, Bobby Barnes, are black. "We've spent 20 years trying to drive the BNP out of football and here they are getting an invitation to the launch of our World Cup bid. I see progress in the modern game but the FA doesn't seem to have caught up with modern thinking and what people in the game and society expect. They can talk about diversity but where is it?"

 

There will be an emphasis today that London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics stressed its multicultural qualities and that it is an important message to convey when campaigning to a governing body as diverse as Fifa. England 2018 did have 350 schoolchildren from Brent, the local authority around the national stadium at Wembley, who came from a variety of backgrounds, but much work clearly needs to be done.

 

It is understood that England 2018 has been planning further events around the country, at which several black footballers will be involved. It is on these initiatives that Ouseley, Crooks and their colleagues will seek clarification today.

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"We've spent 20 years trying to drive the BNP out of football and here they are getting an invitation to the launch of our World Cup bid."

 

:lol: I shouldn't laugh...

Stevie H

Stevie H

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Disgraceful. The FA's public affairs department should be hung out to dry. Cretins.

adrian bevington and his minions hoist by their own blazers. it's unbelievably sloppy is this and just gives enormous ammunition to fifa.

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adrian bevington and his minions hoist by their own blazers. it's unbelievably sloppy is this and just gives enormous ammunition to fifa.

 

At least our rightwing nutjobs are just local politicians and not actually running the country like Italy.

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