This is doomed to be a very short thread, since it may be some time before we can bid to host another World Cup. Apologies if someone else has picked up on it but I couldn't see any other obvious threads for it.

Wills sick as a royal parrot: England loses bid to host World Cup to 'mafia state' Russia (and Putin didn't even bother to turn up)

There's a great dig at the BBC and the Sunday Times:



Rather surprisingly, there's no mention of the source of the Lord Triesman scandal anywhere to be found!

The reader comments are predictable too- those dullards complaining about the cost of it all and those who never have a nice word to say about anything!





Since when was France bidding to host this tournament?





Does this mean that James is pleased that Spain also lost out in the vote?



Miserable sod











If you hate this place so much why not do something about it- or leave?

It's completely full of classic opinions that you've come to expect from the readers of our favourite tabloid newspaper. Mine it at will!

After reading some of them on the site, it seems to be:

50% - self-deprecating sods, anti-England (non-football and football)
49% - cheap-skates ("but but but I don't want to spend money on this")
1% - people mention the DM's role in the Lord Triesman scandal

They've already made a "It was teh darkies wot lost it for us" article, I was expecting them to wait for a couple of days before they brought that out

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... gates.html

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And don't forget to blame dem damn lefties
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... itter.html

They seem to blame everyone but themselves.

Sometimes even experienced Mailwatchers are surprised at the levels of racism and hatred lurking not far from their surface. This is one of them.

On BBC news someone from the FA was being interviewed on why he thought England lost the bid. His answer was that out bid was not international enough, and we focused too much on how great England is and not enough on the international side of football.

It was all about money moans the Daily Fail:

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So throw in a couple of articles where it was the fault of the darkies and Labour, then finally decide it was Big Oil. With a bit of luck, Dacre will soon be sipping tea that glows in the dark. And they even throw in that the winning bid will be bad for the environment, due to coal-fired power stations. The hypocrisy is absolutely staggering. They should ignore the whole thing really, this is making them look like a screaming baby wondering where the little plastic tit went when they chucked it out the pram.

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I fear the "Qatar is holding an unenvironmental world cup" will be wheeled out against anyone suggesting we do something environmental.

I think their mistake was putting Adrian Chiles in the video.

'Mafia state' leader Putin turns up to gloat over World Cup stitch-up (as it emerges that Russia knew it had won bid 24 hours EARLIER)

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Was it really necessary for our future king to prostrate himself before an 82-year-old Paraguayan crook?

# Berlusconi 'took kickbacks from Putin on energy contracts', reveals WikiLeaks
# Chris Patten feared Vladimir Putin's 'killer eyes'

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Throw in some killer bees and we'll be well on our way to a game of Scrabble.


Am I alone in thinking they've just dusted off the "Eurovision sour grapes" folder.

Wow, you're not joking! No wonder it's Griffin's favourite paper. Never mind the fact that it's quite sensible for a country once associated with footie hooligans to try and shake off that image and emphasise the way football brings people together when "selling" said country to the outside world... there are some un-English-looking types in the video! We ought to have had some stock footage of policemen and Royal guards instead - they may not have much to do with football, but at least they won't frighten the horses! And let's have a sneer at Elbow while we're at it, because anyone who isn't Elgar or an X Factor winner must be a total nobody!
This paper makes me sick.

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TBH you would be the only person I have come across which doesn't think that Oil Billions have paid a part in getting the world cup.

Russia I can almost understand....but Qatar?


Wales might as well have bid, it has double the population and 4x the number of football supporters.