World CUp in France?

[screeny]

I was wandering through the BBC sports website and I noticed that tonight's Scotland Romania WC match was being played in Murrayfield.

This surprised me as I thought the WC was in France exclusively. Can one of you fellows tell me the rationiale behind this, how it all came about and how many other matches are not being played in France.

Much obliged.....

 

[shiznit]

I was wandering through the BBC sports website and I noticed that tonight's Scotland Romania WC match was being played in Murrayfield.

This surprised me as I thought the WC was in France exclusively. Can one of you fellows tell me the rationiale behind this, how it all came about and how many other matches are not being played in France.

Much obliged.....

yeah... Murrayfield and the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff are hosting matches in the world cup.

official lines say that Scotland and Wales are helping the FFR with the congested schedule but thats a load of sh*t.

when voting went for who was going to host RWC2007 the FFR(France) and RFU(England) were the two bids... the FFR knew that it was going to be hard to get WRU(Wales) and SRU(Scotland) to go against england so they decided to offer those 2 sides home games during the tournoment in return for there votes. the SRU got the arse end of the deal because Cardiff is hosting a 1/4 final also... which ironically enough means that after argentina's upset over france it will more than likely be the all blacks against france in cardiff... negating the french home advantage.

all sorts of dodgy deals go on behind closed doors when the bids are made.. i know when NZ won the hosting rights for RWC2011 deals were done with the likes of Argentina for the All Blacks to tour them regularly over the next 10 years.... the NZRFU deny it ofcourse but everyone knows whats going on...

 

[Turdy Angle]

Thats right . And Ireland voted for France but because Lansdowne Rd wasn't available to host any games because of construction work they were opted for money instead .

 

[screeny]

Aha.....thanks chaps. Informative answers.

 

[bobbis]

Its how all the previous RWCs in Europe have worked, to get hosting rights you buy votes by carving the world cup up, Ireland sold their portion back, Scotland tried to but it was a little to late.

 

[CycloneSteve]

The 1/4 final match being played in Cardiff was a joke from the start. Regardless of results, Wales were never going to be playing in that match anyway, and now France are denied the chance to play the game on their own turf. Looks like the "carve-up" of matches has bit them in the ass.

 

[bayrep]

There will be no atmosphere in Wales for this game. Also the French fans would not have picked to be playing their 1/4 in wales so wold not have brought tickets and from what I have heard there are only about 2000k seats left, they are predicting mainly AB fans.

 

[boonboon]

Actually being over here and seeing it live on tv- thier was a great atmosphere - the welsh really no how to make a sporting game - plus lots of kiwis and a fair share of frenchmen and loud irish it was awesome