HibeeJibee Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Would expect England to have four groups and the other Home Nations to have one each, so Scotland would avoid the Celtic/Rangers debate by having neither and playing matches at Hampden/Murrayfield. f**k knows where the two Northern Irish grounds are coming from, though. I'd be pleasantly amazed if half the games got given to Glasgow/Cardiff/Dublin/Belfast/etc. If you're looking at 32-team tournament with 8 groups a fifth or a quarter might be more realistic? Heaps of English regions/cities/stadiums have a case... 4x London, 2x Manchester, 2x Liverpool, Newcastle, Sunderland, Birmingham (Villa), Sheffield (Wed), Leeds, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol. Their previous WC bids also included places like Stamford Bridge and Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Middlesborough, Milton Keynes, Plymouth which granted would be out of the picture now. Look at WC 2026 where you've got USA providing 12 (although 17 are proposed)... Mexico providing 3... Canada providing 2. If had to provide say 16 to 20 stadiums overall I'd guess 4 or 5 being Hampden, Millennium Stadium, Lansdowne Road and some combination of Murrayfield/Casement Park/Pairc ui Chaoimh. I'm still unconvinced they'll all be allowed to qualify automatically either. Edited February 13, 2022 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted February 13, 2022 Author Share Posted February 13, 2022 Does England even need the rest of us to hold a tournament? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Does England even need the rest of us to hold a tournament?They need the UK government funding and the UK government need to be seen to be spreading that around, so yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 On 12/02/2022 at 23:14, Bully Wee Villa said: Those four London grounds would have been on a preliminary list and whittled down to two if they'd won. You could have maximum of two grounds in a city so one of Celtic or Rangers would have to go, as would one of Hearts or Hibs if Murrayfield is involved. I imagine England would only have London as a two ground city meaning Man City and Everton miss out as Old Trafford and Anfield are more iconic. Anfield is (reportedly) a problem when it comes to non-Liverpool games/events due to the ban on Sun journalists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 15 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: I'm still unconvinced they'll all be allowed to qualify automatically either. If it was two hosts I could see them offering it, but anything more than that and it'd be a bit of a piss-take to the other members. I'd like to see them send one host and have some kind of mini-tournament to decide who, but that's likely not going to be realistic given the already packed calendar. Most likely is probably that England get the automatic spot and the rest just have to hope they get there too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 I wouldn’t be surprised if they tied it in with the Nations League rankings. Maybe something like the top ranked host (so England) qualify with some play-off places being reserved as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 If it's a 32 team tournament they might just let us all in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabFC Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 14/02/2022 at 12:32, craigkillie said: If it's a 32 team tournament they might just let us all in. If it's a 32 team tournament, then surely even we could qualify for that?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, ArabFC said: If it's a 32 team tournament, then surely even we could qualify for that?! If we couldn’t finish as one of the top 32 teams in Europe we should probably just give up playing football forever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Patterson Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 13/02/2022 at 09:19, craigkillie said: The Qatar World Cup has 3 stadiums in Al-Rayyan and 2 in Doha. Ultimately where the stadiums are and how many are in each city is utterly irrelevant, what matters is the political wrangling in the background. Getting these Euros will be a quid pro quo for the UK pulling out of the 2030 World Cup process to give Argentina/Uruguay a clear run at it - this is part of the UEFA/CONMEBOL cooperation which will also be an attempt to kibosh the FIFA plans for a World Cup every two years. So at least some good is coming out of this then. On 14/02/2022 at 09:35, The Master said: Anfield is (reportedly) a problem when it comes to non-Liverpool games/events due to the ban on Sun journalists. Liverpool would cease control of Anfield for the tournament so that wouldn't be an issue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 15/02/2022 at 22:26, Nightmare said: If we couldn’t finish as one of the top 32 teams in Europe we should probably just give up playing football forever. We effectively managed that in both WC 2014 and Euro 2016 qualification. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 UK and Ireland seemingly will be the only bid with Turkey and Russia pulling out of the running. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 It'll be interesting to see if they try and at least somewhat equal up the nations as much as possible but if it's essentially an England bid with a compensatory stadium in each of the other nations it'd be a massive anti-climax. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 UK and Ireland seemingly will be the only bid with Turkey and Russia pulling out of the running.Surely not, I was told that UEFA wouldn't possibly consider the bid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted March 5, 2022 Author Share Posted March 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Highland Capital said: It'll be interesting to see if they try and at least somewhat equal up the nations as much as possible but if it's essentially an England bid with a compensatory stadium in each of the other nations it'd be a massive anti-climax. One nations being more equal than the others is how the UK works 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 It'll be interesting to see if they try and at least somewhat equal up the nations as much as possible but if it's essentially an England bid with a compensatory stadium in each of the other nations it'd be a massive anti-climax.The Daily Mail (I know, I know) say Hampden, Wembley, Tottenham, Cardiff and the Aviva are confirmed with 13 other stadiums in contention including Murrayfield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Probably end up with something like: Group A - Wembley and Tottenham Group B - Dublin and Belfast Group C - Manchester and Liverpool Group D - Glasgow and Edinburgh Group E - Newcastle and Leeds Group F - Cardiff and Birmingham Last 16: Tottenham, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool QFs: Wembley, Cardiff, Manchester and Newcastle Semi’s: Glasgow and Dublin Final: Wembley 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 5 hours ago, lubo_blaha said: The Daily Mail (I know, I know) say Hampden, Wembley, Tottenham, Cardiff and the Aviva are confirmed with 13 other stadiums in contention including Murrayfield. Northern Ireland as an official host with no venue would be quite something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Northern Ireland as an official host with no venue would be quite something.The Mail article mentioned Windsor Park being extended to 25k in the hope that UEFA would waive their usual 30k requirement.Casement Park in Belfast is also being redeveloped to hold 30k+ although that’s a Gaelic ground.It’s hard to see UEFA agreeing to giving an automatic qualification place to a “host” with no compliant stadia, especially when 3 other countries will be getting in with only 1 or 2 venues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 4 in London... 2 in Manchester + Liverpool + Dublin... Leeds + Leicester (!)... but not e.g. Sunderland + Sheffield + Nottingham? Interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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