The media coverage won't have helped our cause, but to say that we didn't get the World Cup because we upset FIFA by exposing their corruption is wide of the mark. Let's be honest, anyone who has any interest in football is all too aware of what they're like, and what a self-serving and corrupt bunch they are I'm sure none of the contributors to this thread, for example, are particularly surprised at what what's being alleged.
On a technical level, our bid was very strong although there were still a number of issues which would need to be addressed but there's a huge amount of politics behind these decisions and from that point of view we were always going to struggle.
FIFA needs to be far more transparent, but the only people who can affect such changes are those within the organisation itself and they're doing very nicely out of it at the moment, thank you very much.
