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Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk FIFA denies World Cup date change


Continued from front cover Jim Boyce, one of FIFA’s vice-pres- idents, has expressed his shock at Jerome Valcke’s announcement that the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 will be moved from the tra- ditional summer date. “It absolutely, 100 per cent,


has not been decided as far as the executive committee is con- cerned,” said Boyce, speaking to Sky Sports News. “It was agreed all the stakeholders should meet, all the stakeholders should have an input and then the decision would be made, and that decision as far as I understand will not be taken until the end of 2014 or the March executive meeting in 2015.” One advantage to a November start is that


FIFA already has international dates during that month, meaning less disruption to the domestic calendar. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has agreed with the new International Olympic Committee president Tomas Bach that 2022 World Cup will not impact the 2022 Winter Olympics in February, which rules out January for a start date.


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Moving the World Cup would greatly disrupt the football calendar Te scheduling of the tournament has been


hotly debated since the host’s announcement was made in December 2010. Officials from European football leagues – especially England’s Premier League – said moving the World Cup dates would cause serious scheduling problems for the leagues for three successive seasons from 2020-21 to 2022-23, in addition to the African Cup of Nations which is set to start in January 2023. Details: http://lei.sr?a=d4N6C


Leisure key to saving UK town centres


Te key to rejuvenating ailing town cen- tres across the UK is to look beyond retail to things such as culture, entertainment and leisure, according to a new report. For the past 13 months the Distressed Town


Centre Property Taskforce (DTCPT) – which includes retailers, property investors, landlords and bankers – has been investigating the impact of the changes which have affected retail and property in the UK’s town and city centres. One of the main recommendations is that


the government should designate town and city centres as key national infrastructure in order to open up new funding opportunities and that significantly greater flexibility in the planning system is needed to enable quick and easy change of use from redundant retail premises to more economically productive uses. Te retail landscape has changed completely


in the last five years, due to the recession and the shiſt to online shopping, which has leſt the major- ity of towns with too many shops. “Most of our town centres need to evolve urgently to meet the broader needs of the


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communities they serve over the next 50 years,” said taskforce chair, Mark Williams of the Hark Group. “Waiting for normal economic growth to return is unacceptable and will result in many towns moving further into decline.” The report said that leisure is an essen-


tial part of a town or city centre’s role but many towns have a negligible evening econ- omy – even in the food and beverage sectors. Details: http://lei.sr?a=b3n9U


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