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Italy will bid to stage the World Cup in 2015 or 2019, going head-to-head with Japan, Australia and a joint-venture from England and Wales for the rights to host the four-yearly showpiece. We think it'd be great - ice-cream, wine, olives... 24 drinking laws. Here's a few others.

Positives

It's not as if they will be interrupting some top level competition
Vigorello Cru I.G.T- The supertuscan wine from the Chianti Classico zone
Classical music and dance against the back-drop of the city of the beautiful towers in San Gimignano
The trophy being presented by the Pope
Rugby players will fit well in with the tight nipple showing fashion sense
Our headquarters being on a gondola

Negatives

Not cheap
"Mi mostra la maniera alla casa di spiedino di carne?" Hard old slog to ask for a kebab
Historically not a good place for England - penalty heartbreak and potential tears from Cipriani would be too much to take.
Match-fixing at an all-time high courtesy of the mob
The wife would insist on coming and drag you to art galleries and poppy fields between games.