World Cup in Jeopardy?

[Jaques Francais]

Just seen this on the BBC Sport Football Rumours page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/default.stm

Fifa has set aside £400m contingency fund for the possible collapse of the 2010 World Cup. (The Guardian)

Anyone know anything more about this?

[RG30]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2270176,00.html

[Royalee]

Another reason to be thankful Sepp Blatter's the President of Fifa.

[papereyes]

There's been rumours about this World Cup falling through since day 1.

IIRC, England had been approached as a replacement as they're one of the few countries that could just hold it at short notice.

[Silver Fox]

The 2010 world cup looks like this year's OLOLympics, as soon as they picked the venue any sane observer could predict the problems that would be in store

[papereyes]

The 2010 world cup looks like this year's OLOLympics, as soon as they picked the venue any sane observer could predict the problems that would be in store

Thing is, I can understand the mentality and why they put the tournament there.

I'd like to see a World Cup in Australia, think that has real potential.

[The Surgeon of Crowthorne]

The 2010 world cup looks like this year's OLOLympics, as soon as they picked the venue any sane observer could predict the problems that would be in store

Thing is, I can understand the mentality and why they put the tournament there.

I'd like to see a World Cup in Australia, think that has real potential.

Hmmm. I would think that the only potential it has is for it being completely ignored by the local population. Nice place to go to watch games though!

[papereyes]

The 2010 world cup looks like this year's OLOLympics, as soon as they picked the venue any sane observer could predict the problems that would be in store

Thing is, I can understand the mentality and why they put the tournament there.

I'd like to see a World Cup in Australia, think that has real potential.

Hmmm. I would think that the only potential it has is for it being completely ignored by the local population. Nice place to go to watch games though!

They said that about USA '94, didn't they.

[Huntley & Palmer]

There's been rumours about this World Cup falling through since day 1.

IIRC, England had been approached as a replacement as they're one of the few countries that could just hold it at short notice.

I'd understood that it would go back to Germany for the very same reasons

[Barry the bird boggler]

Next year's Confederations Cup - a World Cup dry run - may not go ahead as scheduled, but a Fifa spokesman insisted there were no internal concerns over the World Cup.