Makes no difference as we wont get the World Cup anyway but I am quite surprised with some of the choices.

I guess ultimately Hull is a RL City and the fact is, apart from MK Dons (Who shouldn't be there as they are everything wrong with football), the rest of the Cities are rich in footballing tradition.

Plymouth, Bristol, Nottingham are all much nicer cities than Hull. Come to Hull and see the worst bit of England, yes that would look good on our application.

accoring to maps.police.uk both bristol and nottingham has worse crime rates than hull

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the fa wont have 3 venues in yorkshire imo.

Crime rates is just a part of it. The facts are Hull is located badly, has a small football ground, has no footballing tradition at all and is regarded as one of the worst cities in the UK.

Plymouth is also located badly isn't it? as for no football tradition neither does milton keynes.

also consider the fact that city are playing in the most watched league in the world and that is constantly promoting the city worldwide. Fitzgibbon even watched city home games to remind him of the kc.

Yes but I'm guessing Plymouth and MK had other things to their advantage. So? So are Burnley, Wigan, Stoke... very poor teams who, as a club size, don't deserve to be there but are there on merit. The fact is Hull has so many things to its disadvantage and I'm still to see one to its advantage apart from the ground been new however it has no culture it's just a soul less generic stadium like DW, Ricoh, Plymouth's, Doncasters.

TBH couldn't really care a less they have failed in there bid, and glad Kc staying as it is, but hell coming into Hull on a train is a disgrace you only have to look at the graffitti, state of the houses, etc to see it was never going to come off imo

Youve obviously never been to plymouth, im ex rn and have spent some time there and can honestly say its a right dump and as for footballing history they havnt got any.

this is the key point in all of this

they are now the largest uk city never to have top flight football

Real shame in my opinion, would have been good for the city if we got the WC.

Lots of revenue coming in, chance for Hull to have an international event, a chance to do some cleaning up work on the place, a chance to inspire the young and a chance to bring some employment opportunities to the area. I don't give a monkeys about the football, but its a shame for the city IMO.

to be fair the area around anfield isnt exactly picture book though

people are been foolish thinking any of these cities won't be ready should we get it. local councils/ the government/ the fa will spend hundreds of millions to get stadiums built in the cities they want, jsut look at all the new stadiums built for other recent world cups. the stadium is probably the least important part of any bid. the most important part been how close to london you are, the second been how easy are you to get to from london