There's a reasonable chance that England will be awarded the soccer World Cup in 2018 and it's almost a certainty that England will be chosen for the Rugby World Cup in 2015. Yet Liverpool, arguably the most intense football city in the land, has little chance of hosting matches in either competition unless the city's football clubs Liverpool and Everton can agree on a ground share scheme. Everton are currently struggling to get permission for a 50,000 seater stadium outside Liverpool in Kirkby but that would hardly compare with Manchester United's 76,000 Old Trafford stadium as a north west venue. Liverpool are highly unlikely to be able to fund their proposed 60,000 new stadium in Stanley Park, between the two clubs' current bases, while its owners are financially-stressed Americans Tom Hick and George Gillett. Fans in England, and indeed most places, hate the idea of ground-sharing but, for these two, that looks like the only chance of getting a spanking new stadium to rival those in Manchester. Liverpool council supports the idea as does the North West Development Agency, which might even put up some money. And money's alway the issue. Arsenal's new Emirates stadium, although it actually came in on budget and generates formidable match day receipts, has still left the club £300m plus in debt and consequently unable to afford big transfer market signings. A joint effort by the two Liverpool clubs, with taxpayer help, might produce a decent stadium that they could actually afford. Roughly twice as many matches at Stanley Park would go a long way towards keeping debt manageable, even though neither Liverpool nor Everton can charge quite the fancy prices the Arsenal City boy supporters pay. But will the supporters, frustrated in their desire to move, succumb to such logic? Ah, there's the other problem....