World cup debate:How Public Arogance made Blatter a visionary prophet.

World cup 2018 will take place in Russia while Qatar will host World cup 2022. Dooms day. And the ranting engines started to roar like never before. FIFA is corrupted! (No shit!). Then the holier-Bigger-Better than though anthem blew its horns, as predicted. Democracy! Human Rights! Environment concerns! Corruption! Terrorism! And again Telorism! Just 'cause it sounds more convincing when you repeat it twice. All that proves the FIFA were right to make the decesions they made. Because regardless of the luxury discussions about "technicalities", this FIFAstic decesion served beyond football, revealing the ugliest face of the trident engagement between Arogance, egnorance and hypocricy. A fact that make people who were not that excited about FIFA's decision (count me in), stand up and bow for Blatter and co. If Football-and Sports- role is to bring people together regardless of their differencies, to make them know, then this FIFAstic move proved being a master strike.

Let me start with this tiny -sidenote- information: Qatar is more a "Liquefied Natural Gas" country than "Oil". HA? Yes...thats true. It is onething when a blogger or someone who comment on a blog mixup things, but it is another thing when some "proffessional" journalists on the payroll of well known journals start ranting without putting an effort to know the most attainable details about the subject they discuss. So for those who want to explain how Qatar bought and currupted everyone, Pullleeaazzzee refer to the LNG country, not the Oil country. At least this will give some credentials for your argument, and delude your readers that you have a clue what you are talking about. Deal? Deal.

Now before getting to what really matters, lets deal with the "technicalities". There were lot of noises about the technical flaws of the winning bids. Hosting a world cup has never been (and will never be) a technical decesion. Right? If Russia's bid was catostrophic from the technical perspective -leading to the claim that those who voted for Russia are FIFAnatically corrupted- then why did Mr. Geoff Thompson -England's FIFA ExCo representative-vote for Russia -the weakest bid technically- in the second round? Of course he is not corrupted -because he is English and English gents dont do that the same as English players do not dive. Obviously he had his own reasons. But why is it hard to believe that there are some people -who are not English- who might also have their own reasons to vote in the same dorection?

Is it true that BBC panorama program had an impact on FIFA ExCo voting? You bet. Is there anything wrong about that? Following English media reactions after the voting, one argument sum it all:

"Voting for Russia proved the claims about FIFA's corruption. FIFA had a chance to clear its name by voting for England, they waste it!"

I see...Well BBC plan went in the wrong direction then. Timing the program just before the voting was meant to create a pressure on the ExCo to "clear their names" by voting for England. There is no other explanation for the timing of the program. The thing is, the BBC played it so wrong. In Fact, if the Exco voted for England, that will prove everything said about their corruptuion. It will sound asif they made a panic voting, trying to Buy England's silience. The competition between England and Russia was so close, as the telegraph discribed the two bids before the voting http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/8172748/World-Cup-2018-England-Spain-Portugal-Holland-Belgium-Russia-who-will-win-the-race.html

England

Technical report in brief: Fifa risk ranking: 14 low risk categories, 2 medium risk and a low overall operational risk. Report reveals England has made the most detailed proposal, and praises both legacy plans and commercial strength of the bid.

Can they win? Yes, but they’ll have to come from behind to do it. Major challenge to make it in to the final round against Spain or Russia, but if they do it’s winnable.

Odds: (William Hill) 13-8

Russia

Technical report in brief: Russia has five areas of medium risk, with air transport judged a high risk because of the absence of a reliable rail network and concerns over the pressure this would put on air travel.

Can they win? Definite contenders and received wisdom has them vying with Spain in the final round, but Russia are chasing many of the same votes as England, and may not be the clear favourites.

Betting odds: 8-11

Then came the BBC attempt to add more wiegh to England's bid, but it was not well-calculated and causes an irreversable damage.

Then there is the suggestion that Putin called some voters -personally. In another interview England's representetives leave you astonished while telling how some FIFA members promised the prime minister, Beckham and the royal family to vote for England, then they didnt. And please..."They promised to vote for us"...Ask anyone who was involved in any kind of elections from classroom representetives to national leaderships they will all tell you how naive this complain sounds.

Did Russia (and Qatar) try to create insentives for Exco members to vote their way? Hm...One of the members is from Thailand. England arranged a friendly match to be played against Thailand to help world cup bid http://www.insideworldfootball.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8001:exclusive-england-agree-to-thailand-friendly-to-help-world-cup-bid&catid=61:england&Itemid=74 Why will England need that if it is all about technicalities where England is supposed to have the best chance? Now they are rumors they are canceling it after the voting http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3259830/England-ready-to-axe-Thailand-friendly.html . Is THAT "fair bidding"? Isnt there any conflict of interest there? Thats corruption, no matter what dectionary you check. Didnt they -English campaign representetives- tried every way they can to bring Key members to their side? So lets stop this "we played it fair...poor we..." claims. The only difference between different bidders is that some had more insentives to offer than others. Fullstop.

Then you wonder, where were all the whinners -at least- in the past two decades? There were lot of incedents where people stepped in to point finure on FIFA's corruption while the current preachers wherer hiding in their holes. Now everyone want to become a national hero, and its as easy as screaming "Corrupted!!" While carrying a banner with FIFA's name on it marked by a wrong cross. Then FA chairman Roger Burden ride Alexander's horse announcing he will quit as a protest against FIFA corruption. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9256772.stm But before anyone HAIL Burden's English pride, I am sorry to tell you he was actually planning to quit anyway http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1282066/CHARLES-SALE-FA-pick-Roger-Burden-heavyweight-role-Lord-Triesmans-exit.html

But now he can exit passing under the bow of glore, rather than sneaking from the back door. Good radiance.