Why not play in London?
If we qualify to play Japan, Iran or Uzbekistan in the next stage, we must play all WCQ on FIFA dates.
No debate.
2. If a game is to be played during the Northern football seasons, why not play one home World Cup Qualifier in London. Just one? It could make all the difference as the travel is increased and the intensity of games is increased.
2 comments:
Now that is a brilliant idea! The question is though, are we allowed to do it? Under what circumstances can a team play a home game in another country (aside from friendlies)? Iraq do it because they are in the middle of a war zone, North Korea had their recent qualifier in China because they don't recognise South Korea as a nation (and are technically still at war with them too). What do we do? Annex New Zealand at last? Invade a small pacific island? Create some diplomatic or security incident?
Frank Lowy is chummy with the FIFA and AFC folks, I wonder if he could pull this off?
Frank can do anything. But if North Korea can play in China just because they don't recognise the South's flag or some other spurious reason, and Sweden and Brazil can play a friendly in London the other night..why not.
Seems possible, and with all the Aussies over there I think we'd sell out a World Cup Qualifier anyway and have about three weeks less speculation as to who is coming or not....and it's getting boring...is it not!
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