9:00 am ET
Dec 1, 2010


Australia Hops High in Bid

    • I'm an Australian! Australia does not deserve the World Cup. Never has Never Will. The game is divided in our country and half the soccer/football fans don't want this World Cup under the current leadership of the game here.

    • You're just jealous that we have kangaroos and a sense of humour, and you have skunks and a windy ex-president.
      Go Oz!

    • The only thing that is farcial is the US bid team of Presidential liars and demented Hollywood actors who can't even read off a script!

    • Looking forward to stealing the world cup from you, GO AUSTRALIA!!!!!!! Now I'm going to hop on my kangaroo and go to my job at the croc wrestling farm and have a shrimp on the barbie for lunch.....just a stock standard day.

    • Atlanta......best Olympics ever.......Not

    • This article stinks of arrogance just like the US bid. Sepp Blatter: "Australian FOOTBALL Federation", still stuck in the 90s US Soccer?

    • Just like our bid for the Sydney Olympics, Matthew ? Best Olympics ever, we would put on the best World Cup as well. Its not a true World Cup if it doesnt travel the world. Unfortunately old world politics will play its part.

    • Matthew,
      I think you failed top see the intention of Australia's bid.
      Why would the commmittee want to sit their and listen to the same old dribble about transport, stadiums, finances when they have received all this information over the last 2-3 years through each bidding country's lobbyists..
      I like the fact that the film took a light hearted approach and wasn't your typical political advertising campaign style ad. Yes, it was a bit cheesy but weren't they all?
      Perhaps leave it to America to hear that same old phrase we hear time and time again "America is a country that rises against challenges.." .....yawn.

    • Looks like some American who thinks he's somebody is running scared at how good & imaginative our Aussie bid was in comparison to the boring US one and has decided he has to bag the Aussie bid in order to make his country's look a bit better. Pretty unimaginative stuff from WSJ really...but about what you'd expect. Send the Cup down under so someone who knew how to host the "best Olympics ever" can also show you how to host the best World Cup ever

    • Sorry lads, the world is coming to play in Australia, you had turn in 94" now it's our turn!!

    • Clever I thought

    • Getting WC2022 would be a dream for us here in Australia. But as an Aussie football fan, I'm embarrassed by the bid video. Crocodile Dundee? Really? Isn't it 2010? The only thing Crocodile Dundee has done recently is fight tax evasion charges! Surely we can do better than pushing the cliche that we're a simple backwater country. Looking out my office window right now at the metropolis that is Melbourne, we have so much more to offer. Aus is the right country for WC2022, because we have the passion, capability and experience. Not because of kangaroos and washed up old actors!

    • Its difficult to see how the US of A can host any sporting event let alone the WORLD CUP when your economy is bankrupt. Maybe borrow some more from the Chinese or just switch the printing presses again ?

    • I'm an Aussie. It was the worst presentation I have ever seen. Still my money is on the USA. To be honest, I don't want the cup here if it's going to take away the AFL (Aussie Rules) for a year.

      Soccer is nothing more than a bunch of over paid nancys 'tripping' over thin air and claiming injury!

    • Who knows? Maybe the US will win the hosting rights. And then, no doubt, you will call on Australia to help you out - just as you did in the Pacific in WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the Sinai, Afghanistan, Iraq (twice), and every other major commitment that you make and cant manage without us. Maybe we can teach you how to hold a successful event - just as we teach your pilots to fly properly and your army to shoot straight without getting themselves killed or blowing themselves up. Its amazing that you had any celebrities to back your bid, given that most of your A-list and most talented people actually hail from the land down under. But yeah - good luck with the bid mate. If you win it - which you wont - I'll even pop over to help you celebrate! I'll drink you under the table, spend my parity dollars, and get cosy with your wives and girlfriends (cos my accent is, like, soooo cute)....

    • Fading almost as badly as missing an entire page in your bid presentation speech? I am looking at you Mr. Freeman. Our presentations have been the best rated before this so I'm not at all worried, as most people know, this is simply a performance and the voter's minds were made up long ago.

    • Aussie - you're an embarrassment. Have a word with yourself you ignoramus.

    • More comments here from Australians than Americans. Matthew had better keep taking cheap shots at foreigners if he is going to maintain any readership at all. One of the US's best traditions!!

    • Matthew, this garbage that you wrote which you call journalism and I use that term very loosely just goes to show that the USA are scared that the World Cup may not be heading there.
      Did you actually have a look at your vid, that was crap and the Morgan Freeman spiel at the presentation where he fumbled his way through it was farcical.

    • Compared to watching the World Cup or whacking myself in the head with a hammer,for entertainment value the hammer wins hands down.So I say as an Australia.... Go USA you can have it.

    • Thats it USA just criticise the competitors bid and then you will get the World Cup. Mind you how will you put it on given that even the mighty Australian dollar is worth more than yours these days. Also how will anyone attend your World Cup if you are all bankrupt and homeless?

    • Matthew - the world doesn't revolve around the US. Shovel down a few more doughnuts mate and swallow this crap article with it.

    • Yes perhaps Australians don't take many things too seriously, whereas obviously Americans don't take journalistic prowess too seriously either. What a whining, self-righteous piece of gutter journalism. Hilarious! Neither Australia or the USA has enough money to buy the votes anyway.

    • I'm just not sure you understand the Australian culture, but you would'nt be the first American to confuse our lack of ceremony with lack of caring, this is far from the truth....remember Sydney 2000. When i watched the US bid video i fell asleep, it was predictable, boring and lacked true substance. It was more like they were trying to sell life insurance than bid for the world cup. Yeah the Aussie one was cheesy, but it gave you a glimpse of who we are and why we are a unique place to host it. No worries mate.

    • I didn't think it was very well presented, but you could probably have put more effort into a story regarding the world cup bids as well.

      This would be better placed in a UK tabloid.

      Next time maybe some analysis around who has bid, the decision making process and the likley factors that will influence the decision would be welcome.

    • Stop trying to sabotage our bid you pathetic humourless American! How about writing an article on Americas gun laws? and how backwards and stupid it is for following that piece of crap that is your constitution. It says "Americans have the right to bear arms" more like you have the right to murder anyone you like.

    • Slimy Racist Wankers.............you don't deserve to hoist the world cup in Australia.

    • Pretzel.... have you even been out of your country? You've probably never met an aussie, so how on earth would you know whether we're racist? Or were you looking in the mirror when you made that call?

    • Oh yes wanker. An Australian citizen for 30 years.

    • Gosh, this article came right out of the bulldog's bottom - lighten up ya mug. I like the feigned offence taken at the fact that the Australian government can afford to do...what it says...not to mention the crocodile tears spilt on behalf of that frypan bid from the desert.

    • What does America have to offer? Obesity, poor infrastructure, terrorist attacks, shootings? I pity America. You seem to think your nation is superior to that of any other...one day your nation will collapse and if you end up with the right to host any major event, a terrorist attack will come right along with it. The world is anti-America..face it.

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