Euro 2016

[jbyrne]

looks like france are staging Euro 2016...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8711016.stm

[holidaysong]

I'm sure they'll manage to handle it.

[Closed Account 2]

Qui a dit que le crime ne paie jamais? Apparently Italy was eliminated early on this morning so that left Turkey and "les mains", interestingly the head of UEFA is French and one of the vice-heads is Turkish, both sat out for the voting - as did a minor member of UEFA who is Italian. Euro 84, Wc 98 Euro 2016 - pretty much a major tournament every 16 years or so, would be even more if they had won the 2012 Olympics (although in revenue and attendance terms I would imagine that is small fry compared to the World Cup and Euros).

I probably would have gone for Turkey or Italy myself, nothing against the French (except the handball) but having seen matches in all 3 countries I would say France lags far behind the other 2 in terms of passion for the game. If UEFA wanted to send it to a new developing country and leave a legacy they should have picked Turkey, if they wanted to go for a safe bet with high speed rail etc already there they should have picked the Italians. France will have to build or significantly renovate all but one of their stadiums (Stade de France) so the same would have been true in Italy (new or renovate all but Stadio Olympico).

[DaveyCakes]

I suspect that the problems with Euro 2012 were worth a few votes to France, which would be seen as less risky than Turkey. The Italian bid was a shambles by all accounts, they had no chance. Final vote was France 7 Turkey 6.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Another UEFA farce.
Spain or even 'Ingleland' would be more deserving.

[DaveyCakes]

Indeed. Even though neither submitted a bid...

[Closed Account 2]

The Italian bid was a little shoddy in terms of delivery:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/MediaRelease/uefaorg/MediaReleases/01/48/83/27/1488327_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Looks like there were worries of the projected ticket costs and the locations at Udine and Cesena.

The winning bid was an erroneous victim of circumstance, simply making it because of errors and concerns in the other bids. Typical of french football, it manages to get lucky and ends up being the winner as it's the "least worst" in a restricted field.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Indeed. Even though neither submitted a bid...

Well, they fecking should of....

[Dunny]

I'm sure they'll manage to handle it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yl3UMO-TkE&feature=related

:D

[Dodge]

I suspect that the problems with Euro 2012 were worth a few votes to France, which would be seen as less risky than Turkey. The Italian bid was a shambles by all accounts, they had no chance. Final vote was France 7 Turkey 6.

I'd say thats spot on. The turkish bid contained plenty of stadia/infrastructure that hasn't been built yet. The French are only tidying things up a bit as most of their sdtadia are top class (and of course infrastructure is great)

[Arnold Layne]

if they wanted to go for a safe bet with high speed rail etc already there they should have picked the Italians.

Gonna be a bit controversial here, but I think the French rail system is alright :eek:

[OwlsFan]

Another UEFA farce.
Spain or even 'Ingleland' would be more deserving.

Very well run tournament so far although the lack of taxis in cities after the games was horrendous.