In alphabetical order:
1. Birmingham
2. Bristol
3. Derby
4. Hull
5. Leeds
6. Leicester
7. Liverpool
8. London
9. Manchester
10. Milton Keynes
11. Newcastle
12. Nottingham
13. Portsmouth
14. Sheffield
15. Sunderland
1. Villa Park would be close to turnkey ready.
2. Neither Bristol ground is close. Need a new ground.
3. Pride Park not ready. Needs expansion and improvement.
4. KC Stadium not ready. Needs expansion and improvement.
5. Elland Road a long way from ready. Needs expansion and improvement.
6. Filbert St not ready. Needs expansion and improvement.
7. Anfield and Goodison could be brought up to standard, but at a cost. Either woud need expansion and improvement, will get at least one new ground.
8. Wembley is pretty much ready, ditto for Emirates. Surely only window dressing required.
9. City of Manchester would be close to ready, Old Trafford would need a lot of work done on the southern stand (bringing the tunnel and rooms to the centre of the stand, working on the dugout areas…) and the pitch to create the necessary buffers between field of play and fences – Sanga was down for an awfully long time after his slide and fall into boards the other night.
10. MK should be nuked, by which I mean of course that the ground needs expansion. The ground’s close to new and would be close to the right basic standards, it’s just half the size it needs to be.
11. St James’ Park might be ugly as sin but it’d be close to ready. Being ugly didn’t keep Nuremburg’s ground out.
12. Neither Nottingham ground close. Need a new ground. Plans already discussed.
13. Pompey need a new ground. Plans already discussed.
14. Either Sheffield ground would require major improvements, even if capacity is close to the mark.
15. Stadium of Light is probably in there with Villa Park, Ashburton Grove, CoM and St James’ Park as being grounds close to turnkey ready.
So on the grounds front they've got work to do as well to get up and rolling. Their economy generally might be weaker than ours, but their football economy is light years ahead.
Many of the new grounds are no closer to being built than Stadium WA is - they're kinda ideas that are thought about but not really 'in the works' as such.
In the cases of Bristol, Nottingham, MK and Portsmouth they're long term plans that might be acted on more quickly should the need arise (like a World Cup comes to town). I've not even heard of expansion plans for Derby, Leeds, Leicester or Sheffield, but they're the sort of things you do if you're hosting the big one.
None of Bristol, Nottingham, MK, Derby, Leeds or Leicester particularly need a 40k stadium either, while we're yabbering on about it...