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Go gas if you can much better than arseing about with oil 

The English shite?

Sure they're both pants, you have to chill them down to make them palatable.

[from a bid that prided itself on not offering inducements]

London mayor cancels FIFA Olympic freebie


London - The fall-out to England's defeat in the race to host the 2018 World Cup continued on Sunday as London mayor Boris Johnson withdrew an offer of free hotel rooms for FIFA executives during the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Johnson had agreed to put up FIFA president Joseph Blatter and other officials at the exclusive Dorchester Hotel, but after Thursday's decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia, the offer has been rescinded.

The mayor is understood to have discussed the issue with the London Olympic organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe, but he has not commented on the decision.

Johnson, who was in Zurich to help with last-minute lobbying, said the result was a "big blow and tremendously disappointing".

The withdrawal of the offer, whose initial justification - from a bid that prided itself on not offering inducements - remains unclear, is part of a general backlash in England against FIFA.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/356680,cancels-fifa-olympic-freebie.html

Half expecting these guys to turn up at every match in 2018 and take the ball home with them!

Just another indication of why the English bid may have failed. Using Boris Johnson to campaign for it? He may have made a number of appearances on Have I got news for you, but I doubt they see much of that in Ecuador and Japan. He got elected Mayor of London becayse nobody liked Red Ken any more.

Withdrawing their bribes after tge event has happened hardly convinces me that FIFA is more corrupt. The Englis government failed to invite me to an event too once and it only demonstrates their own corruptio. Bizarre behaviour in both cases. They should take the olympics away from the corrupt b**tards as well.

Did it not occur to any one that the English might have used up all their lives and favours securing the olympics from under the noses of their neighbours the French. The Olympics in 2012 and the world cup final in 2018, you can't have it all.

I think you'll find the french sporting media had a lot of sympathy for the english on this one, they recognosed the english bid as the one with probably the most merit, they are also obviously concerned that the world cup would now appear to be a travelling bandwagon these days looking for some place it hasn't been before, not exactly good for french prospects or for that matter any of the other big european countries that largely bankroll it hosting it in the future.

From a cursory glance at some of the Newcastle forums it would seem that the ordinary supporters are pretty pissed at the decision. Mike Ashley taking a hammering.

Im a newcastle fan, pretty pissed at this, don't understand the calls for us to get relegated though just because we have a bellend as an owner, ordinary decent fans will not be happy with this decision.
Would love to see o'neill come, but i agree with the sentiments of others...why the hell would he 

gutted England didnt get it...I'm getting no younger and it would have been nice to have had the tournament next door.

anti-english bias aside from a lot of folk, anyone who thinks that Sepp Blatter's FIFA is NOT corrupt, isnt wise. Would love to know what the crooked hooer made personally out of this. The man is anti-football

Well said, as for blatter he got what he wanted, to hold onto the reigns for a bit longer, Qatar winning the bid means he won't be apposed for the top dog role by the chappy from Qatar (the one that looks like the undertakers side kick). Its fair enough i guess for those on here who aren't bothered about football/soccer (its a gaa board after all ) having a chuckle at how the sport is run but for those that actually do care about the sport i can think of funnier things than seeing the ruling organisation behaving like a bunch of corrupt tossers whose sole aim is to hold onto power at all costs so the gravity train can continue unabated.

Who did vote for England?

Believed to be Japan

I thought it was an african delegate, they are still chummy with the japanese delegate because he at least admitted that he wasn't voting for them.
That fifa crowd is a rum bunch, still to be fair to them i suppose blatter and the boys should be applauded for at least sticking to their principles when it came to Henry's goal 

Just found this on YouTube, brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egaR4WvLPY&feature=related

That was a fart machine he used for that, they bought it hook, line, sinker and copy of the angling times, just goes to show he was a funny guy with or without the script writers.

In the north the more secular 'boxing day' is the correct name for it.

Its a shame that you dont practise that in regards to your head of state also being head of a church.
Il take a proper secular country, naming a public holiday after a christian saint over anything named by an inherently sectarian country like yours.
Thank you very much.

You're welcome 

In the north the more secular 'boxing day' is the correct name for it.

thanksgiving = 2x christmas dinners per year

Do people only have one xmas dinner, we have it again on boxing day and another on new years day for good measure 

Very sad, my heart goes out to his wife and children and also to the rest of his family.

[that's hardly a new development, it's been like that since about a week after the first ever bank opened in 1135 or whenever, as soon as the guy running it figured out that he could issue notes which were theoretically backed by gold/silver, just so long as everybody didn't come in to get their money together.]

Watch, Listen and learn
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544#

Everyone should watch this. Makes it very clear on what is going on. The money that I have in the bank at this moment in time is not physically in the bank, it is wrote on a piece of paper/on a computer system in the bank which makes me believe it is there. What i have is someone else's debt sitting in my account so to speak. If everyone went to take there money out tomorrow the bank would close the doors and people would not get a penny. Its all a bit much to take in.

that's hardly a new development, it's been like that since about a week after the first ever bank opened in 1135 or whenever, as soon as the guy running it figured out that he could issue notes which were theoretically backed by gold/silver, just so long as everybody didn't come in to get their money together.

And sure didn't we get one of the great  Hollywood scenes from it "It's a Wonderful Life".

Funny thing is, while this is the basis of how banks operate, when Bernie Madoff tried it they put him in the slammer.

That was a ponza scheme though that was always going to crash, the fractional reserve banking system actually works quite well (well as long as you don't let the fractions swing to far).
Pensions now thats a different story they are basically a legalised ponza scheme, pumping in money to pay the pensions of those already retired in the hope that another generation will pick up the tabs for yours.

The Brits would love to lop off the public sector leper that is the north and for the forseeable future will go as far as they can to cut the spongers adrift. Never will they have had as good an excuse. You would be as well acknowledging that fact as using the economic crises in the south as a vehicle to score smug political points (again).

Will be a very cold house for everyone soon.

You could make the same argument for getting rid of scotland, wales, all of the north of england and even chunks of the south of england, basically any where that isn't the south east england or london which if you want to take such a simplistic myopic view could be said to bank roll the rest of the UK.
Likewise you could say dublin should look to offload huge swathes of ireland as they are a drain on dublins wealth.

I still find it surprising how many people in the south just don't realise how bad things are.

I find it surprising how many people in the north don't realise who close behind us they are.

We're tied into the UK as a whole (thank god), time will tell but certainly the bond markets seem much happier that the UK isn't going to default (running around the 4 % mark on 10 year bonds).
That the UK is going to go cap in hand like ireland is largely wishful thinking on your part.

I was a being a bit dramatic I agree, but it's quite annoying to hear northerners constantly talk with great glee about the situation down here, seemingly ignorant of the fact that they had a worse bubble that was equally as badly handled and the people behaved in a similar way as that witnessed in the worst excesses of the celtic tiger and that without the UK backing up the north it would have been in Ireland's position long ago.
In the long term you are probably right, the UK will probably not need to resort to the EU for funding, but it's definitely not certain, stranger things have happened.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/16/ireland-globalrecession?intcmp=239

see this article

Anyone talking about the souths position with glee is a potato head, and i agree with you that things could get a lot worse in the UK, only time will tell though, i hope both economies come out of it in reasonable shape!! 

I still find it surprising how many people in the south just don't realise how bad things are.

I find it surprising how many people in the north don't realise who close behind us they are.

We're tied into the UK as a whole (thank god), time will tell but certainly the bond markets seem much happier that the UK isn't going to default (running around the 4 % mark on 10 year bonds).
That the UK is going to go cap in hand like ireland is largely wishful thinking on your part.