Blatter confirms decision to award 2018 World Cup to Russia will be investigated

Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 00:57 UTC

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has confirmed that the decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia will undergo an investigation. Qatar was awarded the 2022 tournament at the same time as the eastern European country, amid allegations that the Asian nation had influenced the decision-making process through the use of bribery. Read full article

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Teaboy2
And this will change the outcome of the the word cup being awarded to Russia and Qatar, will it? I don't think so. If it does the 2018 should be given to England. But i suspect this is just a ploy to limit damage and basically nothing but a show off look we are doing something to but really we are not really doing anything about it.
Nov 28th, 2011 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
F*** England. 2018 should have given to Holland-Belgium or to the US.
Nov 29th, 2011 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Teaboy2
@really why US, they had it in 1994, Holland and belguims bid fell by the way side. England has the stadiums and the infrastructure and is capable of holding a world cup with only a months notices. In otherwords we constantly have the capacity to hold such events without having to build new stadiums or train lines, or roads. Besides their is a perfectly good chance russia will not be ready in time.

For the record heres the current Fifa world rankings.

1 Spain 1564 0 Equal
2 Netherlands 1365 0 Equal
3 Germany 1345 0 Equal
4 Uruguay 1309 0 Equal
5 England 1173 2 Up
6 Brazil 1143 -1 Down
7 Portugal 1100 1 Up
8 Croatia 1091 4 Up
9 Italy 1082 -3 Down
10 Argentina 1067 0 Equal

Not looking so good for Argentina in the footballing world is it, especailly when you consider that we beat Spain only a few weeks ago. England are also the only team in the top 5 that is on the UP.
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