Falmer to host World Cup match?...

[turienzo's lovechild]

i'd imagine they'd mean that a team would be based at falmer, and train there.


isn't there talk of it hosting football matches at the olympics?

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I would assume Portsmouth or Southampton will easily be able to get their stadiums to 40,000.

I very much doubt Falmer will get planning permission in time for 2018 to increase the capacity to 40,000. I would love for this to happen though

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

i'd imagine they'd mean that a team would be based at falmer, and train there.


isn't there talk of it hosting football matches at the olympics?

That would make a lot more sense as I don't think they will need very big stadiums to host the games.

I would have thought Loftus Road, Craven Cottage and Griffin Park would be used for some of the games (as they have all been used for internation games before anyway) in the Olympics seeing that the Olympics will be held in LONDON.

 

[Blackadder]

When is April Fool's day this year?

I can field that one!

Feb 22

 

[Gwylan]

Why on EARTH would Brighton be chosen to host a game anyway? We're only 35 miles from London, and there will be TWO bigger stadia in Hampshire if they want a footprint in the south.

More like 55 miles.

Where does the 40,000 figure come from? I'm sure that one of the stadia used in Germany had a capacity lower than that.

 

[sparkie]

This will all change and it will be the sodding MadJetSki which gets the only game in the south outside London. They've probably already printed the tickets

 

[Yoda]

i'd imagine they'd mean that a team would be based at falmer, and train there.


isn't there talk of it hosting football matches at the olympics?

Nope. The football is one of the sports where they are taking the games to the rest of the Country.

Taken from the 2012 web site:

London 2012 Football Venues


The 2012 Olympic football tournament will be played throughout the United Kingdom with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales staging matches in the preliminary rounds if London's Bid is successful.

Some of the UK's most iconic football grounds have been selected by London 2012 as preferred locations for the 2-1/2 week tournament.

The proposed stadium line-up is:
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Old Trafford, Manchester
St James's Park, Newcastle
Villa Park, Birmingham
Windsor Park, Belfast

Each stadium will hold matches in the preliminary rounds on a similar pattern to England's successful staging of the 1966 World Cup and Euro '96 tournaments.

Under existing rules 16 men's teams and 10 women's teams compete in the Olympics.

The men's tournament, open to under-23 teams who are each allowed to field three over-age players, comprises a preliminary round, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, and the women play quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. Wembley will stage the men's and women's finals.

In line with London 2012's policy of spreading the Games as widely as possible around the UK, the venues were selected on the basis of location, the quality of their facilities and the need to meet the minimum seating capacity of 20,000.

Three of the six grounds, Millennium Stadium, Old Trafford and Hampden Park, hold the maximum five-star UEFA rating.

Millennium Stadium, built on the site of Cardiff Arms Park at a cost of £130 million and opened in 1999, has state-of-the-art facilities and the largest seating capacity at 72,000. It features the first fully-retractable roof to be constructed in Britain.

Old Trafford, dubbed "The Theatre of Dreams," has a seating capacity of 67,000, followed by Hampden Park and St James's Park with 52,000 each. Villa Park seats 43,000 and Windsor Park's capacity is 20,000.
FIFA has offered no objection to a GB team playing in the Olympic Games, but has said the home country FAs must decide how such a team would be selected e.g. the home countries could play off against each other for the right to represent Team GB or the highest finishing home country team in the European under-21 championship represents the nation.

 

[Buzzer]

I can imagine the headlines in the Sun:

"Come get your World Cup Willy"

 

[Turkey]

More like 55 miles.

Where does the 40,000 figure come from? I'm sure that one of the stadia used in Germany had a capacity lower than that.

I thought Nuremburg had less than 40,000 but having checked them they were all over 40k.

Falmer has been planned so that it can be expanded if needs be though.

I don't know how easy it would be to expand a flatpack stadium like St Marys and Pompey cant cos theyve got that big fuss about trying to get there new ground. Although that may be 40+ Pompeys not really an area you want to show off to the world.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

i doubt we would have any games, maybe have a country based here and train at falmer.

Spot on. I would hope we get someone like Cameroon

Certainly a good place to host some officials and FIFA executives, rather than sticking them in London.

 

[C1 BHA]

Football?

at Falmer?

:thud:

 

[Rougvie]

It isnt as stupid as it sounds, in Euro 2004 we went to a Denmark game in a ground that was just over 22,000 capacity and but I think was chosen because they wanted to involve as many grounds as they could in as many different areas, its not all about cramming as many fans in as possible, particularly in a match between smaller asian/african nations.

Thing is wont we have to get rid of the inefectual Perry to have a hope in hell of ever getting the damm thing built ? I'm just not falling for his spin anymore, serious quiestions have to start being asked if we really did do all our homework about Falmer after all.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I thought Nuremburg had less than 40,000 but having checked them they were all over 40k.

Falmer has been planned so that it can be expanded if needs be though.

I don't know how easy it would be to expand a flatpack stadium like St Marys and Pompey cant cos theyve got that big fuss about trying to get there new ground. Although that may be 40+ Pompeys not really an area you want to show off to the world.

Nuremberg in theory was over 40,000 but some of the capacities tend to fall just under it once they have done the segregation, advertising and made space for the prawn sarnies for Sepp and the boys.

 

[Scotty Mac]

libya v south korea at falmer would be immense

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Spot on. I would hope we get someone like Cameroon

Certainly a good place to host some officials and FIFA executives, rather than sticking them in London.

Cameroon would be nice, plenty of flair.

 

[Gazwag]

Nope. The football is one of the sports where they are taking the games to the rest of the Country.

Taken from the 2012 web site:

The 2012 Olympic football tournament will be played throughout the United Kingdom with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales staging matches in the preliminary rounds if London's Bid is successful.

The proposed stadium line-up is:
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Old Trafford, Manchester
St James's Park, Newcastle
Villa Park, Birmingham
Windsor Park, Belfast

Surely "throughout England" should mean something South of Birmingham

 

[Gazwag]

Spot on. I would hope we get someone like Cameroon

Certainly a good place to host some officials and FIFA executives, rather than sticking them in London.

wonder if that what the FA cup ticket stubs are for

 

[Seagull73]

The point about it being close to London has got nothing to do with it, in fact it probably makes it more attractive.

Euro 2004 in Portugal had 4 grounds within a 70km radius of each other in the North, and that never created an issue.

 

[Yoda]

Surely "throughout England" should mean something South of Birmingham

The final's are being played at Wembley. (it's in there if you read on a bit. )

 

[BensGrandad]

I thought that I read that Brighton with Falmer could be used as a training base for some teams due to the travelling time to London.