England's failed bid explained
Well, now we all understand. The FA revealed today that it only spent £21 million to try to persuade the FIFA representatives that England was the right venue for the 2018 World Cup.
The question is - who decided to be a cheapskate and only set a budget of £21 million? Surely, this sort of sum doesn’t go far. By the time you have flown David Beckham and Prince William around the world a few times, it doesn’t leave much to spend on each of the FIFA voters. It’s rumoured that Russia’s budget of £890 million was much more realistic and contributed a little to their successful bid.
Plans for a 2026 bid are already in the pipeline with Wayne Rooney and the winner of Strictly Come Dancing to be our ambassadors. The budget is set at £199 plus some WH Smith vouchers.
Below, Russian deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, is pictured about to shove a lot of details of offshore bank accounts to Sepp Blatter.
The question is - who decided to be a cheapskate and only set a budget of £21 million? Surely, this sort of sum doesn’t go far. By the time you have flown David Beckham and Prince William around the world a few times, it doesn’t leave much to spend on each of the FIFA voters. It’s rumoured that Russia’s budget of £890 million was much more realistic and contributed a little to their successful bid.
Plans for a 2026 bid are already in the pipeline with Wayne Rooney and the winner of Strictly Come Dancing to be our ambassadors. The budget is set at £199 plus some WH Smith vouchers.
Below, Russian deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, is pictured about to shove a lot of details of offshore bank accounts to Sepp Blatter.
Very funny. But scareily true. (FootballCynic writes: Dream on, Stadium)
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Worth a tweet maybe the bigwigs will run for their lives lol (FootballCynic writes: Do you mean that it's maybe worth a tweet? Or, that the bigwigs maybe will run for their lives?)
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Maybe worth a tweet that they will maybe run for their lives - LOL
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