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Message: [QUOTE="Flutterby, post: 2346736, member: 1853"] Winning bids for big events like this and the Olympics is about money, power and influence - you need enough of 2 out of these 3 to win a bid (and if you have the money you generally will have influence). It is not about who is the best placed to run the event - every country who gets to the final bid stage is well capable of staging the event, admitibaly some will stage a much better event than others, but all will pull it off in some form. Australia has no-one on the inside of FIFA to weild the power and influence; and have too great of a sense of fair play to spend the enough money in the required ways to get the votes. We quite frankly have no-one willing/able to play the FIFA game. Let's take the Sydney Olympics for example. A lot of hard work went into that bid and we were certainly more than capable of delivering the great games we did, but so were several of the other contenders. Australia sealed the winning of that bid mostly because of 1 man - John Coates. He spent pretty much his whole sports administration career building up his status within the IOC and learning to play their game, so when the time came he had the power and influence within the IOC to ensure a favourable outcome for Australia. We quite frankly have no-one with that kind of power-influence in FIFA - and we don't have enough money (or willingness to use it somewhat unscrupulous manner) to make up for that lack of influential person. [/QUOTE]

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