World Cup

So we didn't win it. A great disappointment for football fans although much less so for the rest of us. Even though it would have brought coin to these shores would it really have made a profit? Many think that unlikely knowing how cost overruns on projects of this kind spiral out of control. A relief therefore for the taxpayer and yet an irritation that we only garnered two votes and that Russia won even without Putin making a trip to Zurich. Could he have known it was already in the bag and thus did not have to make any extra effort? If so, I wonder how he knew and why FIFA decided on Russia. We will probably never know the full story. Save for one or two of them the FIFA members are a motley crew. I would hate to go tiger hunting with them. I think they and Russia deserve each other. Does the way these things happen remind you of the Eurovision Song Contest? I think we should resign from both and set up our own institutions which we control.