Would Sheffield be a good World Cup host?
By Matt Duncan Published: 26/10/2009 You must have seen the adverts around town by now. Even the most ardent anti-football ones of you will have seen the big green boards asking you to “Back the Bid.” So far we seem, as both a country and more specifically as a city, to have simply accepted that hosting the World Cup in 2018 is a good idea with almost no negatives. But is that actually the case? Would the city be a good host, can we afford it and what would be the point of having it here? Simon Argall, the Operations Director at Sheffield United and one of the stakeholders for the Sheffield bid believes that the city will not only cope, but will excel at hosting part of the largest single sporting event in the world. “Sheffield is the fourth largest city in the country and the first city of sport. “Ultimately this is the city that helped to give the game to the world through Sheffield FC, through Hallam FC and through the original hand written rules of the game. “We are uniquely positi
