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England bagged just two votes FIFA has released an official voting record for the 2018 and 2022
World Cups on its website. Unfortunately, we don't yet know who voted for what but it does confirm
that England's 2018 bid crashed out in the first round of voting with just two votes. See the full
records [.
So the verdict is out.
"For 2018 and 2022 we go to new lands, because the FIFA World Cup has never been in eastern
Europe or the Middle East." says FIFA's president Joseph Blatter.
Yeah, we'll pretend that is the reason since there is absolutely nothing one can do about it.
And I say this really in regards to Qatar, not Russia.
A few hours after FIFA's announcement that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar will host
the 2022 World Cup, most people I've talked to share the same two feelings -- expectation and
surprise. Since Russia had already been considered a strong contender before the BBC's
Panorama program severely damaged England's bid, their victory announcement was not
preceded by much suspense.
Russia and Qatar. The 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be going where no World Cup has gone
before.
I was fairly unmoved by the whole shebang surrounding the bidding process. Certainly a fair few
English noses have been put out of joint.
And many English journalists are now ranting and raving about the power of money and the
questionable attitudes of the two countries to human rights and media freedom.
Who will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup? Who will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup? Both these questions
will be answered by FIFA today as they announce the World Cup 2018 & 2022 bid winners ( December 2,
2010) at 16.00 CET ( 15.00 GMT) England, Netherlands-Belgium, Russia and Spain-Portugal have bid
for the 2018 World Cup.
Well now we know Russia-will be the host for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and Qatar will be the
host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
For the first time in 44 years, FIFA is announcing two World Cup hosts on one day. FIFA has done
it only twice in the past, in 1946 and 1966, but both times, only a single country was bidding for
each tournament.
After a more than thirty minute delay, a delay that felt like hours, FIFA announced today the
host nations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
2018: Russia.
2022: Qatar.
For supporters of the US bid, a tweet from Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl describing the scene
before the announcement said it all: "Qatari delegation members getting handshakes & some hugs from
FIFA voters.
Dear oh dear. All that fuss for two votes. South Africa was bad: this is humiliating. Once
again, the gaping chasm between English football's expectations and rewards is brutally exposed.
All we can do is sit back and huff: maybe next decade.
But this time, unlike in South Africa, the English cannot blame ourselves.
Earlier today FIFA voted and decided which nations would host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup. While
maybe some thought that the tournaments would go to England (2018) and the United States of America
(2022), it wasn't so, and instead it was Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022) which won the rights to
host the tournament.
Insightful piece in TIME magazine on FIFA's decision to stage the 2018 and 2022 World
Cup tournaments in Russia and Qatar is well worth reading:
"What the World Cup Choices Tell Us About the World" by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon.
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Glass Half Full: The face of a man whose club has only won
once in six games...and whose country will be hosting the World Cup
Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, is hardly one to pose for the cameras or court the media. Sure,
he's ostentatious and unapologetic about his massive coffer(s) of money but putting on a show for
the cameras isn't something he is known for.
Lippy Irishman mouths of again As everyone knows, Roy Keane is a mild-mannered, rational and
reasonable man. What's that? he called Haaland a what? and he told Mick McCarthy to shove it up his
what? Sweet Jesus. Anyway, as ever Keano as reacted to a piece of footballing news that affects him
in no way, [.
It has been a sobering time since FIFA's Executive Committee binned our bids. Often it is better
not to react at once to things that make you emotional, but as the mist clears from Thursday's
decision in Zurich, it is clear the sport's governing body needs reform.Russia had some case - it
might be a 'mafia state' according to the Wikileaks cables but has a long soccer heritage and is an
important
Most of us can accept that FIFA is - I'll not say corrupt - lacking a certain transparency in its
decision making processes.
And we can probably accept that Sepp Blatter, to quote Rob over at Left Back In The Changing Room,
"is a fucking clown."
But how many of us thought that it would be the supermarket chain Morrisons that would grasp the
sword of truth and attempt to slay football's governing dragon?
So far as I know there's nothing that requires FIFA's decisions to be democratic or transparent.
But they actually are and in a pretty fundamental way. In fact, the most recent FIFA Executive
Committee decisions to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar were more transparent
and democratic than most people might suspect.
