A friend of mine tells me Gothenburg is out and it is now between Stockholm and Malmö. And one of the four members of the core SVT team is head of SVT Malmö. Oh dear. Choosing any city other than Stockholm would be a disaster. Might as well have given it to Copenhagen if Malmö is chosen...that is where all the tourist money and visits will go anyway in that case.
Oh God, can they be any more stupid (well it's SVT, so I guess there's no limit for stupidity
), but seriously? We're hosting this and will spend quite some money on this, and they want another country benefit the most of it?
I agree, if this is the plan, they could hand it over to Copenhagen as we speak, because they will benefit the most economically anyways.
And why have the MF final in a new arena for 60.000 people and the ESC in a smaller one for just around for 15.000 people? It doesn't make sense.
I wouldn't be surprised if they choose Malmö to make some sort of idiotic political statement (as always the case with SVT)... What's the next step? Now I just wait for them to announce Anna Gina as a hostess and atleast Israel will withdraw for sure.
I mean a hostess that compared Israel with Nazis in a city which is openly anti-semitic, that has a mayor talking about Jewish conspiracies against him and being blacklisted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center... it's like officially telling atleast Israel "We don't want you to participate here". If this will be the case, I will boycott ESC here.
There's an economical loss in choosing Malmö, and also it gives a bad public image for us in general.