The 2018 bid was between England and Russia...The Spain/Portugal bid was a non-starter after the claims made last month while the Belgium/Dutch bid was just there. Russia have never hosted the Wotld cup so it will be nice to see how the pull it off.

I'm more excited with Qatar 2022, this guys have declared that they'll fit all the stadiums with state of the art air-cooling systems that will drop the temperatures. I have a feeling this will be the most expensive world cup yet.

The quatar one really impressed me. I've been checking out the stadia under construction and i an amazed. 12 years to go

Where in history of FIFA has this happened before?
Listen to BBC sports and you will why Blatter's hand was behind this heinous act of impunity.

Russia and Qatar. Such extremes in temperatures, maybe the cold winds blowing from Siberia are what makes Russians such cold people. I hope the hosting the beautiful game will make them less racist, esp their skin heads who go hunting blacks like wildlife.

BTW, some countries had made joint bids to host the games, how does that work?! Why would they do that - to split the huge financial wherewithal required to host the games, ama why?

And it is not true the Russian 2018 mascot will be a giant Yeltsin-like whiskey-swigging toon.

Again England make the assumption that other countries are walk-overs (Non-existence) True they had a much superior technical bid as compared to the rest.However Sepp had maintained all along that her favours new frontiers, don't know why people didnt see this coming. For FIFA it's all bout who will make them most cash and we all know bout the huge cash reserves they have, so bleieve me i know they will put in a spectacle.

What kinda get missed in these events is the demands made by FIFA during this process eg Visa's out of the window (something England was hoping to re-address if they 'won')and exclusive advertising rights..well!! am actually glad Russia won it!!