Dobro pozhalovatʹ Russia 2018. England: Stop The Cavalry

The title of this blog says it all (hopefully I haven't offended any Russian fans of my blog with Google-translated salutations!) The rest is a self-indulgent Christmas reference, but really hits the nail on the England-bid head.

Russia will host the 2018 World Cup. Not England. Our bid was not even close.

As David Beckham correctly assessed we COULD 'host the World Cup tomorrow.' True, but no-one WANTS us to.

England is still the nasty neighbour of the rest of Europe, and sneered at by the rest of the World. BBC documentaries and recent crowd troubles in the 'Second City' probably didn't help either.

Sending the 'cavalry' of Becks, PM and Prince Wills didn't help and in the grand scheme of things could have hindered our bid.

A small leak of desperation crept into the impassioned statements by both Davids - Beckham and Cameron - we should have just sent Nick Clegg, Prince Naseem and David Batty.

Our infrastructure is fantastic, stadia second-to-none but sadly our external relations and financial clout leave a lot to be desired. Sepp Blatter's personal ambition to change the footballing world under his leadership also led to a decision to host a World Cup behind the old 'Iron Curtain' for the first time. And the 2022 will be in Qatar, well oil be damned!

One day myself, my generation, may witness a World Cup on these shores, but it is our politics and appearance on the world stage which must be altered before that can happen, until then we can only watch as Russia put on a fantastic event in the summer of 2018.


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