Firstly, may I just say that if I were looking to be awarded something from a corrupt body that I would not tell everyone listening how corrupt I believe them to be. So, congratulations to Russia, one of my favourite countries, on knowing how to win a World Cup bid. In Russia, journalists get shot when they report something the state doesn’t agree with. Ask Anna Politkovskaya. See link in title if you want to know more. Though, as I know the Russians read my blog, I would like to point out that I do greatly admire Russia and I … Continued
Tag: 2018 World Cup
I am trying to decide who should get to host the world cup. I am glad that I am not one of the Fifa delegates, who have to give up their time, assumedly for minimal amounts of pay, and have to go to these awful delegations and spend nights in boring hotels, with people like Beckham, begging them to do it for the “good of football”. I am trying to put myself in their shoes anyway. I guess being English, I should want it to come to England. But as the bid team failed to include Hull in it, I should, as … Continued