I know this is old news, but it still seems to be causing a major stir in the media over England not getting the World Cup.
I knew we would fail, it was obvious - we could have 100k seater stadiums and still get over looked, the reason being England are hated when it comes to football and in most other cases. Sepp Blatter and his cronies are all corrupt assholes and dont hide their hate for the English game, Blatter has been quoted many of times for his hate against us. The riots between Birmingham & Villa had nothing to do with the bid as it went to Russia who are well known for hooliganism and have riots like we did in the 80's at most of their matches, so the people blaming what happened between Birmingham & Villa couldnt be more wrong. Im glad we didnt get it, i havnt watched an England game since the night we got beat by Croatia in the EURO 2008 qualifyers. Our national side is a joke as proved once again at the World Cup, were no better than Scotland and that sums it up. The nation are fickle to be fair, all bang on about England being gash and then say their all gutted because we never got the WC. Would of been a waste of money anyway if we did get it by improving grounds capacities, fans fail to fill grounds as it is so whats the point in wasting money ruining tradional grounds making them into souless bowls that will be half full after the WC is done.
I wish the media would just let it go and stop bringing it up all the time, just get over it. Sepp Blatter is still a corrupt idiot though, so this one is for you...

they hate the english because of your media imo.
im still boiling that we didnt get 2022 when we clearly should have. what other nation can match our existing infrastructure and capacity for events such as the world cup, olympics, etc...
WE ARE THE ROSE CITY, YOU CANT STOP US!