Back in December 2010 Britain missed out on the chance to host the 2018 Football World Cup after being beaten by a far superior bid from Russia. As the British Queen had already recorded a Christmas message in which she made reference to Britain's bright sporting future this prompted Britain to throw one of the biggest hissy fits in the history of world sport. With help from their new BFF, Qatar they set about overthrowing the boss of FIFA, Sepp Blatter so he could be replaced with someone who is better at following Royal command. Eventually America got in on the act because they really don't know much about soccer.
Six months later it appears that apart from an ill-conceived proposal to put future World Cup hosting decision to the FIFA congress rather then it executive committee this plan has failed with Sepp Blatter being re-elected. In response Britain is now threatening to withdraw from FIFA - a move that will effectively end professional football being played in the UK. Although I'm pretty sure that is just a negotiating position I wouldn't put it past them. After all a lot of the proles do insist on watching football when they could be set to work.
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