- Home
- Session Reports
- Opening Address
- Question Time 1
- 01. Events and IT
- 02. Staging Events with Excluded Young People
- 04. Cities and Major Events
- 05. Sports Events and Community Conflict
- Question Time 2
- 06. Evaluating Events (i)
- Keynote: Liverpool 08
- Day 2: Plenary Keynote
- Question Time 3
- 12. Making Cultural Venues Open
- 13. The Importance of Small Events
- 14. Evaluating Events (ii)
- Question Time 4
Question Time 4 - Football Events and Legacies
William Gaillard, UEFA director of public affairs
“We want to leave legacies of stadiums that can be used by cities for football and cultural events.”
“The main goal of a country applying to host a major football tournament is modernsiation of its football stadia.”
“There’s no doubt that football has a much beter record than the Olympcis in terms of the continued use of its facilities.”
“The second legacy of future organisations and coutnries will be the enhancement of toruism and the image of the country as a whole.”
“Football has a great record in terms of social integration. It involves all sections of the popuation. It is not an elite event; it inlcudes all classes and ages.”
Phil Smith, Head of Piblic Affairs, FA
“We select venues not just on quality but on the impact they can have on the local economy.”
“If you’re going to create a participation legacy, you have to pre-empt the results – you have to prepare for success.”
“With the 2018 World Cup bid, it’s not what the football world can do for England, but what England can do for the football world.”
“We failed to win the 2006 World Cup because England was isoalted and unloved around the world. Frankly, we were arrogant abot saying we invented the game and you should give us the world cup in thanks.”
“Future World Cups will be won on the basis of legacy.”
Dave Boyle, Deputy Director, Supporters Direct
“Nothing is more needed in English football than unity.”
“The best legacy of 2018 will be a rational and coherent approach to English football.”
“We have to guard against this notion of a sports federation flying into a country from out of space and getting them to change laws to protect their sponsors at the expense of individual rights. It’s like a virus.”
“There are some crazy people out there who really do think you matter less than a brand.”
“Ticket touting is a result of a failure of distribution; it’s a secondary market that exists because the first market has failed.”
Michael Gabriel, German Fan Projects
“Maybe, after the fourth consecutive tournament without fan violence UEFA could reduce the level of security measures just a bit.”
Marcos Alvito, Fluminese University, Brazil
“The World Cup is a circus that lands on a country. It’s like a hurricane and after the hurricane, what’s left?”
The spectacle is being built for TV, and not for fans anymore.”
“What dos it mean to modernise? To modernise means to gentrify.”
“The legacy of the World Cup in 2014 will be a commercialised, gentrified, sanitised, exclusive game.”
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