If England hosted the Euros, which 12 stadiums should be used? We have created a poll and want to find out which you want to see picked.
The 2020 tournament, which will be played following a year long delay due to the pandemic, was planned to be across 12 different countries, with both semi-finals and the final at Wembley.
Host cities have until the 5th of April 2021 to confirm if they can allowed a number of their fans to the venues, and England boss Gareth Southgate says England is “well placed” to host should they do so.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that the UK has made offers to UEFA, with the country able to host the competition with the nation getting vaccinated and numbers contracting and dying of the virus dramatically going down with people sticking to the rules.
With that in mind, why not take part in a poll – ‘If England hosted the Euros, which 12 stadiums should be used?’. Which Premier League and EFL stadium would you pick?
Speaking to The Sun, he said: “We are hosting the Euros. We are hosting the semis and the final.
“If there’s, you know, if they want any other matches that they want hosted, we’re certainly on for that but at the moment that’s where we are with UEFA.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will also outline plans to pump millions into funding the UK and Ireland’s joint-bid to host the 2030 World Cup in Wednesday’s Budget.
Johnson said: “We are very, very keen to bring football home in 2030. I do think it’s the right place.
“It’s the home of football, it’s the right time. It will be an absolutely wonderful thing for the country.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is outlining a plan to pump millions into funding the UK and Ireland’s joint-bid to host the 2030 World Cup in Wednesday’s Budget.
Johnson said: “We are very, very keen to bring football home in 2030. I do think it’s the right place.
“It’s the home of football, it’s the right time. It will be an absolutely wonderful thing for the country.”
“We will continue to undertake feasibility work to assess the viability of a bid before FIFA formally open the process in 2022. Staging a FIFA World Cup would provide an incredible opportunity to deliver tangible benefits for our nations.
“If a decision is made to bid for the event, we look forward to presenting our hosting proposals to FIFA and the wider global football community.”
Tweeting on Tuesday morning, Johnson added: “Let’s bring football home in 2030. I would love for the home of football to host the 2030 World Cup, and it would be a wonderful thing for the whole country to savour.
“We want to do much more to encourage sport post-pandemic and see a bonanza of football in the years ahead.”
Let’s bring football home in 2030.
I would love for the home of football to host the 2030 World Cup, and it would be a wonderful thing for the whole country to savour.
We want to do much more to encourage sport post-pandemic and see a bonanza of football in the years ahead. https://t.co/TsCmlKTLMW
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) March 2, 2021
“That would be an amazing experience for everyone,” Southgate told talkSPORT. “We have our group matches at Wembley anyway, we’re hugely looking forward to that and we’ve got our fingers crossed that we keep progressing as we are and that there could be some fans in the stadium. That would be the first step. Everything else is a bit up in the air.
“At the moment we’re being told the tournament will stay in its current format. You would imagine if there is an option for one country to host, then we will be well placed with a couple of other countries to do that.
“But as a team we’ve got to remember that just hosting is not a great guarantee of success. You don’t win just because you’re the hosts. We won’t win just because our matches are at Wembley. We have got to play well and be as prepared as we can possibly be.”
Southgate believes the tournament will be a “national event” and hopes it can help bring the UK together after the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think the beers [are] back on the day after the Czech Republic game,” Southgate said. “I’m slightly less for throwing it around than drinking it! We can play a part in giving the country back its energy, its enthusiasm for life and its enjoyment.
“You’d imagine that if there is an option for one country to host, we’ll be well placed.”
“We’ve got to remember that just hosting isn’t a great guarantee of success.” ❌
Gareth Southgate tells talkSPORT his view on reports England could host the Euros. pic.twitter.com/H8WQonKpNh
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) March 2, 2021
“We have an incredible league and everybody is hugely passionate about their clubs. You have times in the season when nobody gives a monkeys about international football, normally when I’m having to pick a squad and get players released, but the major tournaments are national events. The whole family sit and watch them, we all go through that rollercoaster.
“I can think back to watching Scotland in 1978 in Argentina and England in 1982 in Spain and all those memories that you share as a family, those key international moments stick with you. We’re ready for that, the country are ready for that enjoyment and excitement.”
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