Euro 2024 Germany

I actually think Turkey would be decent hosts too. A country with plenty of culture and heritage, fabulous cities, decent food and drink too.

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kevincronin2000 wrote:

I actually think Turkey would be decent hosts too. A country with plenty of culture and heritage, fabulous cities, decent food and drink too.

Pain in the arse to get around. No choice but to fly to a heap of the venues, or else take like 20 hour bus journeys. Even some of the other venues are only linked by overnight trains, not day trains.

Nowhere in Germany is more than five or six hours away from anywhere else, just about, whether flying, driving or taking the train.

Turkey have submitted their bid today.

Noticed Gaziantep is 1 of the venues listed. Right on the South border with Syria and pretty notorious for sleeper cells in hiding. It might be 6 years later on but f**k that LOL

BohsinMunich wrote:

Let me see...

bier, stadia, biergartens, football most popular sport, reliable public transport, excellent & easy to get to / from location

and then there is Turkey...

surely even UEFA couldn't f%&k that one up ???

No way. As I said earlier they went out of their way IMO to not give them Euro 2020.

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

Only got to keep the work contract for another 5 years. so

What could possibly go wrong in the meantime ?

Music industry goes belly up...

kevincronin2000 wrote:

Would rather Gelsenkirchen was not on the list as there is more to being a host city than just having a stadium. Gelsenkirchen is a kip. Anyway im sure it will be a great tournement.

There are industrial estates that are nicer places than Gelsenkirchen, though it would be hard enough to tell them apart. Hard to see anything other than Germany getting the nod, which is all good, even including Gelsenkirchen.

Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.....

It's been Germany from the beginning. Sure this Euros for Europe was done so they wouldn't have to give the tournament to Turkey as it looked as if they were going to be the only bidders for 2020

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

Turkish economic instability at present is likely to work against them. Erdogan might want to throw cash at it, but I think even he knows it would look bad to throw money at hosting a tournament when there are people starving on the streets. Losing is winning for him, because he gets to gripe about conspiracies and Europe, but doesn't actually have to pony up the cash to host the tournament.

GB 1HughJarse wrote:

It’s between Germany and Turkey for Euro 2024.
Evaluation reports released today.
Decision to be announced next Thursday.

Germany match tickets 2.78 million
Turkey match tickets 2.29 million

Reports criticise Turkeys record on Human Rights.
Alcohol advertising ban in Turkey.

Germany has v good road/rail/air has infrastructure.
Turkey will rely on air infrastructure.

Time to get out the German phrase book so.

Won't sell many tickets, bad human rights record, no alcohol, sounds like a successful World Cup bid to me Thumbs Up