Euro 2020 - Venues - You Boys in Green Forum

ConorMac77 wrote:

9fingers wrote:

Absolute pony having so many teams playing at home. Dead

Hopefully this sh*te tournament idea will never ever be repeated.

Delighted Delaney could never see a game in Dublin

It was Michel Platini's baby - intended to celebrate the tournament's 60th anniversary.

Thankfully, he's gone from office and the next Euros will be in Germany. Thumbs Up

More a case of Turkey being the only country to bid to host Euro 2020. Not wanint to award the tournament to Turkey, UEFA came up with this spurious 'celebration' of 60 years of European Championships by playing the 2020 one continent wide.

Would it really have been so bad if Turkey hosted Euro 2020?

9fingers wrote:

Absolute pony having so many teams playing at home. Dead

Hopefully this sh*te tournament idea will never ever be repeated.

Delighted Delaney could never see a game in Dublin

It was Michel Platini's baby - intended to celebrate the tournament's 60th anniversary.

Thankfully, he's gone from office and the next Euros will be in Germany. Thumbs Up

The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!!

Bilbao to be compensated with the Europa League final and a Womens CL Final

https://www.otbsports.com/sport/bilbao-to-be-compensated-after-being-dropped-as-euro-2020-host-1208944

Presumably something similar for us then

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

He's basque iirc.

"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Laporte switching allegiance to play for Spain

Has never been capped by France

Think he used this bait stick before after he was left out of the Euro 2016 squad.

Late possiblity is that Munich will keep the group games but give up the quarter final.

Hard to see how they can commit to it at this stage but I guess uefa will bend over backwards to have them involved.

The link is is in German

Medien: München behält deutsche EURO-Spiele via @OneFootball. Read it here:

https://1.ftb.al/cxSjS3SKFfb

Edited by BohsinMunich - 22 Apr 2021 at 9:55pm

SuperDave84 wrote:

They called it "Dublin Arena" then as well.

You'd imagine it is up to the hosts to decide the name of their stadium. You'd also imagine that that really means Aviva get to decide and Aviva certainly wouldn't want it called "Lansdowne Road", for fear of it catching on. Presumably that's why it ends up with a sh*te name like "Dublin Arena".

Hell, the very fact we're having the conversation probably shows that it makes sense for Aviva to want it to be called something other than Lansdowne Road.

Yep, "Dublin Arena" for the same reasons as WHU are playing in the "London Stadium", or Spurs are waiting to move into the "Tottenham Hotspur Stadium", rather than WHL i.e. future sponsors don't want to make the same mistake eg as BT made with Boro.

At Middlesboro, the fans originally chose the name "Riverside" in a poll, so when BT tried calling it the "Cellnet Riverside Stadium" (later the "BT Cellnet Riverside Stadium"), they eventually had to give up when they realised that the Riverside bit had stuck, at the expense of "Cellnet".

It is now simply "The Riverside Stadium".

Just looking at some of the Euro2020 scheduling, I understand they can't call it the Aviva Stadium for sponsorship reasons, but sureley if they were looking for another name for it they'd just have used "Lansdowne Road" Confused

Was there any pushback in 2010 for the Europa League final? Just wondering if it was an FAI thing at the time to try to stop people using Lansdowne (think the Aviva deal justs started around 2010).

Edited by Shedite - 18 Jan 2019 at 7:43pm

Hans Moleman wrote:

Ah the next tournament is a stand alone tournament (I would hope), and I wouldn't compare the travelling set up to anything that has gone before. The setup of 2 games in 1 city in the group stage is easily the most accessible for all fans imo. Security issues may be why they've changed that up, but I think they've lessened the tournament by it. The 2020 format is just comical tbh, no host is a farce. Seems like a non event almost.

It gives countries that would never be able to host a tournament on their own a chance to host tournament games. I don’t understand the negativity from you about it. Two group games in Dublin for us if we qualify. It should be brilliant.

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