As world cup decision gets closer...

[countrygull]

I've said before, it is not down to this. The bid has been chaotic from the start. The bid team has never been stable due to various forced and voluntary resignations. The team is inept when it comes to politiking, wrong-or-right you have to play the game if you want a successful bid: handbags, f***ing off Jack Warner and the bizarre failure to present at that 'heads of football' thing in London earlier in the year spring to mind. And recently getting involved in that spat with Russia, demanding an apology, did not help. Again, they're just not politically savvy enough. Add the British press into the mix and you have failure.

I agree with this. Our bid has been a complete shambles from the start. Who in their right mind would put someone like Lord Triesman (who?) in charge, when no-one in this country knows him, let alone in international football. However, you can already see the press is being lined up to take the blame, when the fault is fairly and squarely with the FA and a hapless bid team.