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Australia was such a no-brainer, it ticks every box, the only explanation for the choice of Qatar has to be corruption.

Hotel rooms. There are currently 9,000 in the country. Their bid said they'd have 84,000 ready. So what happens to all of these hotels after the tournament? Or is their tourist industry going to increase tenfold overnight?

What sort of world do these FIFA officials live in that they could ever have thought Qatar would work?

Blatter has made a big deal of moving away from a Eurocentric perspective so replacing a German with a Frenchman is hardly in keeping with FIFA's direction.

Blatter could not have made a bigger blunder if he had tried. Yet he is still in place. The right thing for him to do is resign, then to 'abort mission' before this whole sorry mess gets out of hand, then get a new man in who will have an enquiry, then give the WC to Australia who already have...