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Both USA and Australia put bids in for the 2022 World Cup, along with Japan and South Korea. Being as Japan / South Korea only staged it in 2002, I would think the natural fallback would be either USA or Australia, being as they lost out to Qatar in that disgusting carve-up in the first place...

All true, but they won't stage 2 World Cups in a row in Europe. They haven't done that since 54 (Switzerland) and 58 (Sweden). Since then, it always goes around the continents.

2022 isn't Europe's "turn", so I think you can forget us and Germany. USA could certainly lay it on again, but personally I think if they do bin off Qatar (and I sincerely hope they do), I think Australia would be very capable of staging a good World Cup.

When they have to invest multi-millions in stadiums and infrastructure and large-scale building projects then yes, countries end up losing money (Brazil being the most obvious case in point). England could stage a World Cup tomorrow. But (a) FIFA hate us, and (b) there's not as many backhanders...

Strange myth that. In the last 8 months I've been to New York, Minneapolis, Chicago and Vegas. The range of craft beers in every one of those cities is IMMENSE. Sure there's the old usual Coors, Millers, Buds etc. But in pretty much every bar I went in (and yes, I go in a LOT), they had...