Breaking Football News: England’s 2018 bid lagging behind their bidding rivals
Sir Keith Mills, one of the England’s 2018 bid’s senior advisors has come out and warned Football Association that their bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup is falling short of the mark when compared to rivals such as Russia and Portugal and Spain. Recently,
Spain and Portugal’s bid has already claimed that they have captured 8 out of the 22 votes that are going to be decisive in deciding the fate of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Mills told the media, "difficult, we are behind, we need to catch up. We are still in with a shout". Lately, England’s 2018 bid has been hampered because of English media’s extra enthusiasm to expose corruption inside the FIFA’s executive committee.
Mills added, "We've had to deal with a huge amount of unfavorable British media attention around FIFA, and FIFA members are clearly not happy about that. There is a general feeling that the British media are out to get FIFA and the job we've had in the past
few weeks has been to explain to them that's not the case. I would be surprised if there were any major new revelations. It will be an irritant to FIFA but I don't think it'll be a fatal blow."
Miguel Angel Lopez on the other hand, the chairman of the Iberian bid to host the 2018 World Cup has made the following statement when he was asked about whether his bid already had 8 votes out of the 22 that count: "It would be about that, more of less".
He also confirmed that South American countries will be adding power to the Iberian bid due to the roots that Portugal and Spain share with the Latin American regions.
He said, "Latin America is our natural territory”. FIFA’s ethics committee is looking into the allegations that there has been vote swapping amongst Qatar’s bid for 2022 and Spain/Portugal’s bid for the 2018 World Cup. However, in their latest verdict FIFA’s
ethics committee has confirmed that there is no problem with Spain and Portugal’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Nonetheless, Lopez said, "If there was something, they would have done more”.
Lopez went onto remark that FIFA’s executive committee’s votes had already been decided as the members have already made up their minds. He concluded with a characteristically controversial statement as he said, "All the fish is sold,”
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