Whilst I think the timing of the Panorama airing was a little strange, I think it wouldn't have done the BBC any favours if England had won and then it was found at a later date they deliberately held back the airing so as not to harm the bid, which ironically the Panorama gave evidence of the implication that it wouldn't have mattered when it was aired anyway.

And if corruption is proved whether it's the English FA or FIFA it should be made public regardless of how it hurts bids.

The fun part is that while one guy fell on his sword right away...

the other guy caught in the sting swears FIFA knew of the money and approved the donations.

FIFA should be offering him some money to right shut up.

Ha, that's exactly what my girlfriend said.  Well it went more like this.

"I guess one of the Qatar stadiums is going to be built on an artificial penisula into the gulf and then after the world cup it's going to be dismantled and sent to third world countries."

"Sent to third world countries... for what?"

"I guess they're going to split it up into regular sized football stadiums or something."

"Uh... ok... I think they'd rather have like... homes and food."

I can only imagine what that money could do for the poor... or anybody.

When people say rich people in the US have too much money... my god.  What a waste.

The fact that they are building stadiums that are going to be torn down again is if anything a further proof towards the waste of having it there.

Though I think it's just the one that's being torn down... the rest I think they are keeping.  Like the one in university city will be used for college games or something.

Why so angry :P does it really have to revolve around western europe every 4 years??

Me i'd pretty much just rotate between Europe and South America until the other teams start picking it up.

It's a World cup... get over it... Look im not pissed that u say fifa is corrupted, everyone knows that already. However u saying the world cups being in russia and qatar is a disgrace. Well im sorry bu thats disrespectful and offensive! The shear fact most of you are angry that it didn't get to england is unjustified

Whilst I can somewhat understand Russia as they have decent teams and a fairly talented national side, what exactly have Qatar done to deserve this other than having a lot of money? The national team is one of the worst ranked in the world, below many other Middle-Eastern countries yet they're given a free ride to the world cup?

Shouldn't countries prove themselves by already having at least a modicum of investment in football prior to making a bid? With all the money that's there, why hasn't there been a significant investment in football before?

But FIFA suspended its corrupted officialls (6 of them, i believe), so its pretty clear that corruption is gone and if it isnt, FIFA is wiling to act against it.  Plus, most of the links you gave me are british, of course THEY are gonna bitch

So whats the point of calling it a world cup? And other countries cant jus ''pick up'', they need something to push football as sport in that country. Look what WC 2002 did in Japan andn Korea, they are both pretty solid national teams and they were pretty  bad before the WC 2002

Except more then one has stated what they did was specifically approved by Fifa.

The suspensions were just Fifa trying to stop the probes at just them.  Cutting their losses.