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[catman]

Australia would have been a much better host.

[JMO]

I would prefer small populous countries with a rich football history to host world cups. Australia is too big. England would be perfect. I know they didn't apply but Turkey would have been awesome. The next one in Brazil is going to be epic.

[jvalmer]

Would love to see a world cup in India, China or SE Asia, like Indonesia or Thailand.

[johnnyrook]

[BoholDiver]

Brazil:
8,514,877 km2 (5th)

Australia:

7,617,930 km2 (6th)

Barely bigger. Australia has superior infrastructure, though.

[Louis VI]

Lob off the Amazon and Outback and they're both mostly narrow east coast strips of land with a couple of farflung urban outposts.

[Murakano]

(prior to the draw)

Top 10 Reasons why it wouldn�t be a disaster if England lost the 2018 World Cup

D-Day turned into disaster day for England as FIFA confirmed the 2018 World Cup will take place in Russia. Don't be glum, though - here's 10 reasons why this is actually a GOOD thing:

1) The only joy England get from major tournaments is our false sense of security-inducing romp through the qualifiers. A series of meaningless friendlies just wouldn�t have been the same.

2) We won�t have to sit through a boring Panorama programme on the eve of the event explaining how our facilities aren�t up to scratch (or, rather, how they weren�t up to scratch in 2014).

3) The Queen won�t have to pretend to care about the beautiful game when she�s handing out medals at the final.

4) We�ll be spared the horrors of an official World Cup 2018 song caterwauled by the winner of the previous year�s X Factor show�

5) And also the official mascots: a lion in a gaudy shell-suit kicking a football through his neighbour�s window.

6) You�ll be able to buy your groceries for the week without having to fight through mountains of �limited edition� football-related tat: 'Make sure YOU score tonight with our limited edition World Cup condoms!' etc

7) We won�t have to suffer supposedly topical mentions of the tournament being crowbarred incongruously into Coronation Street and EastEnders: �Oi, Minty! Come quick! The Vic�s on fire� again!� �Not now, Billy � I�ve got to catch a train to Milton Keynes to see Nigeria vs Paraguay!�

8 ) We won�t be severely delayed getting to work every day by a police roadblock set-up solely to allow Sepp Blatter to zoom past in a solid gold Mercedes converted to run on orphans� tears and that comes complete with seal-skin seat covers hand-stitched together by blind Burmese children working for a penny an day.

9) The Premier League�s impoverished football scouts can continue to rack up the air miles filing reports on which mediocre Scandinavians would be best suited to fighting relegation in 2019.

10) We won�t have to put up with legions of German fans celebrating in the fountains of Trafalgar Square following our inevitable last 16 drubbing.

(Mirror)