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The Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion was once again rocked by scan­dal when Lord Treis­man, chair­man of both the FA and England’s 2018 World Cup bid, was forced to resign after the Mail On Sun­day pub­lished excerpts from a con­ver­sa­tion in which Treis­man accused Spain and Rus­sia of con­spir­ing to bribe offi­cials in South Africa. The com­ments came […]

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II">Analysis of Bids for 2018 World Cup — Part II

by George Metellus on January 29, 2009 · 3 comments

Let’s begin Part II of our analy­sis of bid­ders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup with a sur­prise entrant whose deep pock­ets could sneak in and win the right to host a World Cup. QATAR The oil-rich nation with plen­ti­ful nat­ural gas reserves would become the 1st Arab nation to host a World Cup. According […]

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