That also rules Australia out as well .

Asim wrote:There's a jokes thread on the sin-bin. Harsh but

Asim wrote:There's a jokes thread on the sin-bin. Harsh but

Personally, I think that's a very good reason WHY Australia might get the 2010 World Cup.

You could have said the very same about Japan, Korea and South Africa about their infrastructure (and indeed Switzerland, Poland and Ukraine for the European Championships). If FIFA are wanting to expand the sport, taking the World Cup to Australia is a very good means of doing that. The game in Australia has grown in recent years, the A-League is proving popular and the national team is doing fairly well.

Australia isn't exactly a stranger to hosting big events, the only thing harming them is the fact that at present, most of the main venues are all clustered in Sydney and Melbourne.

Yes, here in England we could host the tournament tomorrow (and still leave out stadia that puts much of the world to shame) but I'm not sure that FIFA wants that.

The 2010 World Cup has already been given to South Africa, and the 2014 to Brazil.

Am I right in thinking the World Cup goes round each continent? Or is it just handed out now?

Not anymore.

They scrapped that rule because the 2014 World Cup, due to be hosted in South America, only had one bid for host nation (Brazil).

Blatter only did it in the first place to get enough votes to stay on as boss of FIFA then when he was re-elected he scrapped it.

whats the sin bin joke section

2018.....will Harry Kewell by fit by then?

harry is cool . very fit now we won through too the next round of asia qulifier we beat china cool is going serie a italy

No, you lost to China, but qualified anway.