Football, is not coming home. The 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia.

We haven’t covered the bidding process that much here at WCB, mainly because its been a bit boring, despite the English Press best efforts. I’m more dissapointed than I thought I’d be to be honest, but on the other hand, I [...]

The gloves are well and truly off in the run up to Dec 2, when we’ll find out whether its England, Russian or Spain/Portugal that hosts the 2018 World Cup. While the latter bid is mired in some controversy about vote fixing, England and Russia are the leading bids, and the Russians are playing a [...]

I’m beginning to think that England will never be allowed to host anything ever again. FIFA might just declare that we are simply too foolish too be trusted to even launch a bid again, much less actually win one. After things briefly looked up, we are back to looking completely foolish, unprofessional, and uncoordinated. Lord [...]

After a thoroughly scuffed bid thus far, a boost is certainly in order. First Jack Warner gets his undergarments in a bunch, then Sir David Richards quit the board unexpectedly, leaving the bid looking foolish and disorganized. So even though England would be a great place for the World Cup (it has the infrastructure, stadiums, [...]

OK so maybe I’m blowing this a little out of proportion, but can you blame me? Something’s finally gone right for the bid! Sepp, the eternally foolish president of FIFA, has gotten his creep on. David Beckham, who traveled down to South Africa in a last ditch attempt to pick up the pieces of our [...]

OK so perhaps the title is a tad hyperbolic, but really things are getting ridiculous. A quick refresher course for those of you who have missed this: England (as you all should know) is bidding to host the 2018 World Cup. Recently there was a conference in London at which Jack Warner, a FIFA vice-president, [...]

So FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has come out and had a bit of a pop at our attempt to hold the World Cup. He said that not only was the bid lightweight, but he was really impressed by Australia, who gave him a goody bag with Australia 2018 tat in it. Apparently, this could swing [...]

England officially launched the bids for the 2018/2022 World Cups today, and I have to say, considering it was us, it was a mildly impressive affair. Lots of big names turned up to say “Yeah, its about time really” at Wembley and talk up the reasons why England should have a World Cup (Its been [...]