Mayor cancels FIFA's London 2012 rooms

[Art Vs Science]

London 2012 - Mayor cancels FIFA's London 2012 rooms - Yahoo! Eurosport

Nice one Boris!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Good, but I doubt it'll worry them, they just add another coouple of zeros onto their next bung - or just give the bill to Abrahamovic.

 

[Art Vs Science]

We may as well have sent Boris to do our World Cup Presentation to be honest.

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Good. They should be made to feel very unwelcome in this country at every opportunity. Isn't this seasons Chumps League final at wembley...will surely be some FIFA tossers in attendance.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Hero, Im glad we are taking action, hopefully more to follow

 

[Beach Hut]

Perhaps the PM should ban them from entering the UK ?

 

[philsussex]

Good work Boris.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Perhaps the PM should ban them from entering the UK ?

I think we should tell them we have arranged them hotels and nice restaurant bookings, decent seats etc etc and then at the last minute when they arrive in the UK tell then to f*** RIGHT OFF

or is that a bit childish

 

[Lady Whistledown]

While we're still on the subject of the World Cup vote, check out this snippet from the Observer's always funny Said & Done column today. It did make me laugh, especially the last Mail reader comment


The Daily Mail on why England's bid failed:

"Was it the video that cost us?" The Mail says the film shown during England's bid presentation in Zurich was "un-English", too "multi-cultural" and relied on "a range of ethnically diverse figures".

(Online comments on the story from Mail readers:
"It makes me sick when we have this 'multicultural' rubbish rubbed in our faces"
"This country is dying"
"You couldn't make it up, we Brits have to put up with this nonsense every day"
"Fools! Multi cultural idiots!!!"
"Well done Daily Mail for having the courage to speak up"
"If only Diana were here to see what this nation has become." )

 

[Art Vs Science]

While we're still on the subject of the World Cup vote, check out this snippet from the Observer's always funny Said & Done column today. It did make me laugh, especially the last Mail reader comment


The Daily Mail on why England's bid failed:

"Was it the video that cost us?" The Mail says the film shown during England's bid presentation in Zurich was "un-English", too "multi-cultural" and relied on "a range of ethnically diverse figures".

(Online comments on the story from Mail readers:
"It makes me sick when we have this 'multicultural' rubbish rubbed in our faces"
"This country is dying"
"You couldn't make it up, we Brits have to put up with this nonsense every day"
"Fools! Multi cultural idiots!!!"
"Well done Daily Mail for having the courage to speak up"
"If only Diana were here to see what this nation has become." )

The Daily Mail, now there is a readership full of twats!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think we should tell them we have arranged them hotels and nice restaurant bookings, decent seats etc etc and then at the last minute when they arrive in the UK tell then to f*** RIGHT OFF

or is that a bit childish

Not at all.

We should give them free hotels...and then when they arrive, direct them to the scummiest hotel we can find, some shitty Travelodge overlooking the Purley Way perhaps, or the main line between London and Brighton.

You want freebies, Mr Blatter? Here's a voucher for a McChicken Sandwich and a regular milkshake at the Wandsworth Drive Thru. Enjoy

 

[Lord Bracknell]

"If only Diana were here to see what this nation has become."

If she was here, of course, she'd be married to Dodi Fayed and poncing about as the Karen Brady of Fulham Football Club.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Daily Mail, now there is a readership full of twats!

I did actually see the original Mail article. It was basically complaining because our World Cup bid video featured (amongst many other things) scenes of kids playing football in Africa. And here's me thinking it was a World cup, featuring people from all around the World. My bad.

I'm unclear as to what they thought should have been in the video, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, perhaps? Images from the RSC's latest production at Stratford? Some people drinking Pimms at Wimbledon?

The Diana comment absolutely made it for me though, I mean, is there no single issue, across the ENTIRE planet, that they can't work that woman into? The person who wrote that must struggle to get through every day, wondering what Diana would think

 

[Billy the Fish]

Surely there's some sort of corruption charges we can put on blatter, warner and their cronies. A bit like what's going on with the Israeli government, couldn't we have an arrest warrent out for them so they can't set foot in this country without getting nicked?

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I did actually see the original Mail article. It was basically complaining because our World Cup bid video featured (amongst many other things) scenes of kids playing football in Africa. And here's me thinking it was a World cup, featuring people from all around the World. My bad.

I'm unclear as to what they thought should have been in the video, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, perhaps? Images from the RSC's latest production at Stratford? Some people drinking Pimms at Wimbledon?

The Diana comment absolutely made it for me though, I mean, is there no single issue, across the ENTIRE planet, that they can't work that woman into? The person who wrote that must struggle to get through every day, wondering what Diana would think

I don't think Diana would have liked you.

 

[Art Vs Science]

I did actually see the original Mail article. It was basically complaining because our World Cup bid video featured (amongst many other things) scenes of kids playing football in Africa. And here's me thinking it was a World cup, featuring people from all around the World. My bad.

I'm unclear as to what they thought should have been in the video, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, perhaps? Images from the RSC's latest production at Stratford? Some people drinking Pimms at Wimbledon?

The Diana comment absolutely made it for me though, I mean, is there no single issue, across the ENTIRE planet, that they can't work that woman into? The person who wrote that must struggle to get through every day, wondering what Diana would think

Yep pretty much spot on Edna. Hideous beyond belief really. It also annoyed me that one of the reasonings Fifa gave was that they are sending the World Cup to places that it has never been, we why the f*** did they not say so before we wasted £15 million quid on a bloody bid then. Fifa and all the old cronies in it are corrupt little snakes, DIANA would of been furious

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I don't think Diana would have liked you.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Surely there's some sort of corruption charges we can put on blatter, warner and their cronies. A bit like what's going on with the Israeli government, couldn't we have an arrest warrent out for them so they can't set foot in this country without getting nicked?

Nothing's proven, as yet, but I expect every investigative journo in the country to now try to pin something concrete on them.

I hear today that FIFA has special exemption from Swiss corruption laws - so they can basically do whatever they want. No legit business or company needs special exemption, unless they are up to something dodgy.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

While we're still on the subject of the World Cup vote, check out this snippet from the Observer's always funny Said & Done column today. It did make me laugh, especially the last Mail reader comment


The Daily Mail on why England's bid failed:

"Was it the video that cost us?" The Mail says the film shown during England's bid presentation in Zurich was "un-English", too "multi-cultural" and relied on "a range of ethnically diverse figures".

(Online comments on the story from Mail readers:
"It makes me sick when we have this 'multicultural' rubbish rubbed in our faces"
"This country is dying"
"You couldn't make it up, we Brits have to put up with this nonsense every day"
"Fools! Multi cultural idiots!!!"
"Well done Daily Mail for having the courage to speak up"
"If only Diana were here to see what this nation has become." )

The same Diana that was shagging a ......

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Nothing's proven, as yet, but I expect every investigative journo in the country to now try to pin something concrete on them.

Speaking of journalists, here's another gem from Said & Done, this time relating to The Sun's coverage of the World Cup bid...

• Proudest media campaign: The Sun, writing an open letter to Sepp on the eve of voting, attacking Panorama's "sabotage" of England's bid.
"Today The Sun makes this plea to Mr Blatter and Fifa: don't be put off by the BBC's rehashing of ancient history. Despite BBC muckraking, The Sun trusts Fifa to put football first." (3 Dec, The Sun: "FIXED! FIFA BUNGS RUSSIA THE WORLD CUP … Calls for corruption probe …")