Those that know me, know that I am a 'wrong un'.
Won't go into full details, but I'm teetotal, don't take any drugs, gambling is restricted usually to a five on the National each year, wasn't a womaniser or into violence, was head altar boy and went to church every week until my father died...
He's a narcissic ****.
He doesn't speak the truth, he speaks opinionated drivel. Whining about how long it takes to get from his Macclesfield home is just that, whining. He doesn't have to deal with the problems fans have every week with changes to kick off times resulting in lost time at...
If someone wanted to get behind such a deal, it could easily be the likes of YouTube or Apple. They have the cash, and need a means to monetise their products in a universal manner.
Think it would struggle.
Murdoch doesn't own the governments of countries such as France or Germany in the same way he does here in the UK, so has less influence. Suspect he could easily buy the loyalty of many African countries, South America is an unknown.
Fair enough.
There's plenty of violence in European and South American football though on a far greater scale than in England I think.
It becomes fashionable in our media to report it large during major tournaments. If six or eight people are arrested on a Saturday night in Blackpool or...
Football didn't take any notice of England when they failed to qualify in 1974, 1978, 1994, 2004 and so on, or when they left the tournament in Brazil in 2014 approximately five days after arriving.