gaspargomez":3p76qa4l said:Southampton Green":3p76qa4l said:Had things been slightly different, and England had won the bid for the 2018 World Cup, we would now have a 35,000 all-seater Home Park and would be gearing up to host some World Cup matches in a few months time. Sighs.
Well that's according to Roy Gardner and Keith Todd.
In my opinion they are little more than well educated confidence tricksters. I don't really trust a word that they said. The whole thing looked implausible from the start.
Personally, I think they would have asset stripped the club and disappeared long before World Cup, even if England had been successful in their bid. There was never going to be any 35,000 all seater stadium.
It wasn’t implausible in the sense that we had won the bid to be a host city, the award had been made. The international investment money almost certainly would have been transferred over to us if England had won the bid, and a disappearing act by Gardener and Todd with the money at that stage may have amounted to a serious criminal offence which would have become known on a global scale. I think it all would have been followed through had England won the bid. But then, who knows, as none of it happened.