did we have all this nonsense years ago about who was going to stage future world cups,what a carry on..when i saw all those russians on stage hugging and kissing each other i thought would there be enough room to fit all our hangers on should we have been successful...smarminess at its best..and what the hell does prince william know about football..he should be practising for his wedding night..

Footballs a pile of poop anyway!
The further away from me it is, the better in my eyes.

Q)Who has the Oil and the money?

A) Russia & Qatar.

Yes sour grapes i suppose, but im gutted, we cant bid again now until 2030!! And we may not even get it then.

The good thing is that in 2030 the majority of the current crop of decision makers will no longer be there, and so may be a bit more legitimate.

I can take losing the bid, but to finish BOTTOM out of the 4 applicants is disgusting.

Panarama wouldnt have helped, but theres so much bribery its disgusting.

Just glad i support a better sport, otherwise id be a lot more brassed off. Rugby League, greatest and fairest game on earth.

rumour has it that the Rugby League are looking at the benefits of a russian team for 2012 in Super League.

So you wouldnt have liked those Brazilian Hotties in their coconut bra's dancing up and down at Old Trafford. Or some fit Eastern European ladies scantily clad at Eastlands?? I know i would!



But no, let Russia have it where theyll all be wearing hats, scarves and big coats.

What a load of cossacks!!

No it's not disgusting, it's bloody hilarious! Just goes to prove what I've believed for a long time, professional football is a load of old toss!

surely aFTER the success in fraNCE

we should head to italy.

So England got 2 votes, and one of which was from the FA, how successful eh?

Hopefully will be freezing cold and lousy weather in Russia and played on crap pitches with lumps all over them so that it negates any technical skill and makes it about which teams are physically fit and can run around and get stuck in. The South American and Mediterranean teams will all be out in the group stages.

were a huge hit didnt you know!



did someone forget to tell them that this wasn't eurovision?

When our representatives include, someone who has the oratory skills of a 6 year old, a false prime minister who the Yanks call a lightweight and a member of the most dysfunctional family in the country, then we deserve all we get.

Sepp Blatter was asked "Who is your favourite Qatar player?" He replied "Eric Clapton!"

ill get my coat!

Baddum Tish

That's terrible,but I still laughed.

One of his mates shouted "Hank Marvin" to which he replied so am i lets go and get some lunch!!

Just watched a bit of the newspaper review on Breakfast (with the lovely Susanna, reason to get up on a Friday morning) and the "gentlemen" of the press have shown themselves in their true light. Dummy spitting at it's best.

As big a helmet as Blatter is, it's now obvious that the "old guard" don't hold too much sway anymore, and Blatter wants the game to expand. In the last 20 years, we've had World Cups in USA, Japan/SKorea, SAfrica, and now we're going to have it in Russia (biggest country on the planet) and Qatar. It's clear FIFA want expansion.

Some of the reactions on the telly last night, just reminded me of spoiled kids at Christmas who didn't get what they wanted, .e.g. that dozy middle aged woman from Birmingham "it's disgusting, who wants to go to Russia"

i doubt you'll find people wearing hats and scarves in moscow during june and july in fact i dare say you're more likely to want to don a bikini over there than in manchester during our "summer" months!

and i reckon the fact that qatar is proposing to build stadiums air conditioned down to 27 from 50 degrees using only solar energy is amazing, let's just hope they don't build them all with slave labour

it's obviously a ridiculously corrupt system though and the fact that a smiling abramovich, well known for his penchant for bribery, intimidation and mafia tactics, was in the background of the russian bid just confirms that... fair play to the beeb and the times for having a stab at exposing it, shame wikileaks couldn't find some internal wires from FIFA

Yeah great all indoor ground which they are going to knock down and move to other counties after it.

Fifa seem to have ditched the rule that only 2 grounds maybe in the same city for Qatar it's 6.

the whole thing is rigged.

I thought that the 2018 would have been between Russia and England. But for England to get only 2 votes after being praised at how well the bid was compared to Spain/Portugal & Netherlands/Beligum is just rotten.

hang on isn't the plan to remove the top tiers of the grounds and send them to countries where the football infrastructure is poor? surely nobody has a problem with that? are there some unacceptable strings attached to these deals or something?

Come on, it was fully expected. Luckily for FIFA, they can say that they've given the WC to Russia and Qatar because it's never been there before, when in reality, both technical reports were extremely bad compared to the other bids, so they had to revert to the George Graham method of brown paper bags stuffed with cash.

The thing with Blatter is that you have to view him in reverse. So if he says something was "extraordinary and remarkable", what he really means is that it was utter dog turd. He referred to the Russian presentation as "interesting" which means that they definately were to win the voting.

its been absolutely hilarious listening to these blokes almost crying about the injustice of it all.
Wheeling out phrases like "The FIFA gravy train" and "football is game for the people so why Qatar" and "we should pull out of FIFA"

FIFA have just handed the FA a taste of what the FA have been handing out to the English fans for years. a "Hey look at us doing what we want and not giving a $hit about you lot"

come this years FA cup final between Liverpool and Chelsea

do you think for one minute the FA are going to implement a fair split of match tickets or will the "FA family" get bucket loads of tickets leaving real genuine fans missing out ?

pot calling kettles here i'm afraid

The Qatari grounds are not going to be 'indoors'.

And I believe 4 stadia are to be used in Moscow for 2018. Maybe FIFA have ditched the 'only 2 grounds in any one city rule', but so what if they have, it's their tournament, they can change the rules if they want.

I've been watching sky sports news today and some of the reports were the most embarrassing things i have ever watched. The whole 'we were robbed', 'it was rigged' is so pathetic it is untrue. We got 2 votes!!! and one of them from an englishman. It's a bit like a manager crying about the officials when his team has just been drubbed 6-0.

Stuff em, what can you expect, we in Britain are honarable people, they will allways bite the hand that has fed them for the past 100 years, about time we started looking after ourselves.