Honky Tonx
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Time to cancel The World Cup in Russia this Summer. Play it elsewhere, we have the facilities, as this will hit Russia financially.
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[Football] Tme to scrap Russia 2018
- Thread starter Honky Tonx
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Are we unilaterally deciding this, like we run world football or something?!
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
WE invented the game - can't we take it back as part of our retreat behind our borders? (Brexit)
We didn't really invent football though... the Chinese did.
All we did was write standardised rules down so a bunch of public schoolboys could play each other.
We can't cancel it, but we can withdraw... and hopefully some of our friends would too. It is a possibility - they certainly wouldn't like it.
Albion Dan
Banned
I dont really get all the furore around Russia. Don't countries bump off spies all the time? That's what happens in James Bond?
nicko31
Well-known member
Just have the European heavyweights boycott the tournament, just will do the trick
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
And Russia are small fry in terms of human rights abuse compared to Qatar... at least we're not going there...
oh.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
What friends
, we have just told all our EUROPEAN friends to shove it and we want to stand alone
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
We competed at the Moscow Olympics despite pressure from the British Government not to do so and the fact other countries, including our super special BFF USA withdrew.
Off to Volgograd, with it's seminal place in Russian patriotic history for a nice, friendly welcome we will go.
Off to Volgograd, with it's seminal place in Russian patriotic history for a nice, friendly welcome we will go.
Honky Tonx
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It was also putting other lives at risk, not just the two that Putin wanted rid of.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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It's OK when James Bond does it...he's British. A bit like everyone else is a drug cheat, but we are usually 'unlucky victims of an innocent decongestant'.
Honky Tonx
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What friends
The EU have said that they will support The UK in the case against Russia.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
Pointless withdrawing unless others (Germany / France etc.) do too.
Apparently Italy already have withdrawn, along with the Scots, Irish and the Welsh.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
and The USA, Canada, Netherlands and New Zealand.
SUIYHP
The King's Gull
I think the people of Salisbury would like a word from you, just after they clean their clothes for the third time today and finish their interviews with the police, just because they wanted a pizza at Zizzi’s.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I'd much rather we staged our own mini - tournament at Wembley rather than turned up at Putin's Party and acted all chummy as if nothing had happened.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but maybe we should just lose all three group games and get out of there. No one wants to be there - not the FA, the fans, even the free-loading dignitaries and politicians might be giving the five-star trough a swerve after the spy poisoning.
On the other hand, the idea of someone English lifting the World Cup and saying "This one is for Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko" is quite appealing.
On the other hand, the idea of someone English lifting the World Cup and saying "This one is for Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko" is quite appealing.
nicko31
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What friends
Yeah, and the US ain't gonna upset Russia. Job done for Putin
The last thing we should do is boycott it. What will it do? They'll just invite another nation, Italy say, to take our place. Even if the Italians (or the Dutch) turn it down out of some notion of European solidarity (no I'm not holding my breath either) someone will take the slot. Then Putin can claim victory, as he can almost make himself look the victim and profusely thank the nation who've stepped in to 'save' the WC. Plus he can make snide comments about how no one missed us anyway as we're not exactly one of the favourites; a bit like Saudi Arabia boycotting the winter Olympics. The WC will take place as planned and our puny protest will have backfired.