For someone living in the north, it won't cost much to see all the games as most will be held on the m62, and while I'm not exactly saying we should go all out like the 2000 WC failure, a tournement held primarily on the m62 corridor in tiny grounds will barely do anything to expand the game

I would imagine a London will get at least a group game and probably the final.
Scotland, Wales and Ireland will get games as will the RFL's new favourite thing Doncaster's Keepmoat. With only twelve teams planned to be involved that suggests a fair percentage will be outside the M62 corridor.

The RFL said that most games will be in the heartland. That to me suggests that not all home nations group games will be in there own country (which they should) and not many games will be in London (and a few should). Also the venues announced for the upcoming 4 Nations, and every other international for a good few years now, suggests the RFL will be equally small time when it comes to the WC.
If the RFL go and prove me wrong when they announce the venues for the WC then I will change my stance but for the time been I'm wishing it was in Aus again

Two games in France and one at the Stoop, isn't it?

Precisely. They put a rematch of last year's World Cup Final, played in a city with thousands of expats from both countries, in a stadium that can only hold 12,700. I know mid-size venues in London are scare, but I consider it small-time thinking.

how do you know it's not the biggest stadium in london that was available??

He doesn't.

exactly..


its in all likeihood that the stoop was the only stadium available....

There are only about 54 million stadiums across england these days, they probably just scraped in.

Sadly, there's a few less than that now (or at least some are in dis-repair) since they stopped making Subbuteo ....

Isn't the stoop being expanded anyway?