Pariah Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 34 minutes ago, Cancer said: Poo. OK, all done. See everyone in The Desert of Uncounted BonesQatar in four years. I know it's incredibly unlikely, but I hope FIFA and/or the international community finds a way not to let this happen. With all the graft, conscripted labor, and general unpleasantness associated with the next World Cup, this nation doesn't deserve to host it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 Really looked like the 3 extra time games in a row caught up to Croatia about halfway through 2nd half. You could see them being a step slower reacting then they had been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 Undefeated! pinecone, Spence and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 Same is true for Italy and Holland as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Drats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 So, now that this is over I can be allowed to get back to my sports' viewing life. *notices baseball is at the All-Star break* "####!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Don’t worry, real football returns in six weeks. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Ah, you colonials are so charmingly provincial. ? Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 11 hours ago, Pariah said: I know it's incredibly unlikely, but I hope FIFA and/or the international community finds a way not to let this happen. With all the graft, conscripted labor, and general unpleasantness associated with the next World Cup, this nation doesn't deserve to host it. There was some noise about that, and strangely enough, it was the awarding of the 2026 World Cup to the United consortium (US, Mexico, Canada) that completely stomped it out. The case was that -- if the stink around Qatar got much worse, to the point it looked like the Cup had to be taken out of there -- the US had the infrastructure to put on a suddenly-reawarded World Cup: there are plenty of stadiums (and they're big ones), lots of tourist accommodations and travel capacity and so forth, and the 1994 World Cup did well here, so that probably a snap change of venue would not lose FIFA (or anyone but Qatar) any money. Any steam behind this suggestion got punctured when it was decided officially to put the following World Cup in North America; no one would be happy at putting it in more or less the same place two Cups in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Facilities aside, I don't think the United States would be anyone's first choice to host a football tournament of that magnitude on four years' notice. Certainly there are other countries whose citizens care more about the game that could host it. The United Kingdom, for example. Or France, or Germany, or Spain. Or some combination thereof. Heck, let's have France, Croatia, Belgium, England act as joint hosts in 2022. Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Quote ... Despite the host nation's lack of a national top-level football league, the tournament was the most financially successful in World Cup history; aided by the high-capacity stadia in the United States, it broke the World Cup average attendance record with nearly 69,000 spectators per game, a mark that still stands. The total attendance of nearly 3.6 million for the final tournament remains the highest in World Cup history, despite the expansion of the competition from 24 to 32 teams (and from 52 to 64 games), which was first introduced at the 1998 World Cup and is the current format. From the Wikipedia entry for the 1994 World Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 33 minutes ago, Pariah said: Heck, let's have France, Croatia, Belgium, England act as joint hosts in 2022. 75% of those countries were at Waterloo. Coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, Old Man said: 75% of those countries were at Waterloo. Coincidence? Um, I...well...er.... Yeah, I got nothin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 It would be four, but Prussia doesn't exist any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 And Croatia didn't exist back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Did too! As part of the Ottoman Empire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Or was that Austria-Hungary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Don't ask me. European political geography is too complex for me. I'll stick to quantum mechanics, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Then think of it quantum mechanically: it's like Schrodinger's Cat. Where it belonged is probabilistic, and a function of time. Quantum state mixing, with a time-dependent basis set, that's all. Lord Liaden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 So, to take a current example, the Crimea presently is and is not a part of Russia, simultaneously. That actually makes sense. Lord Liaden and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 In celebration of the recently-completed World Cup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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