Soccer – Dave's Bankside Babble

There will be all kinds of conspiracy theories and anger about politics in sport however, I for one really couldn’t give a stuff. To me it’s just another example of how everything the human race does these days, has it’s roots in overt commercialism and very little else!

Well, to absolutely exact, this blog post is an attempt to explain why Britain didn’t win the bid to host the World Cup in 2018. Since yesterday afternoon there has been a host of theories flying about to explain Russia’s victory, ranging from the plausible to blaming it on a FIFA conspiracy. So far the public seem about halfway through the five stages of grieving having passed through denial and now moved on to anger. At some point within the ne … Read More