I've just read that England didn't even get through the first round of voting - not much return for a £15 million bid. I forgot to mention earlier, that Sepp Blatter told the assembled audience that football was invented in China! Was it really? I don't recall the Chinese football league of the late 19th century but maybe I'm just a bit under-read on these matters. Blatter must really not like England to make a stupid comment like that. England is the mother country of football whether Blatter likes it or not. I suppose he thinks that kicking a human head around whilst mounted on horseback was the true origin of football so maybe the reference earlier to Mongolia wasn't too far off the mark.