So, did anyone watch it?

Having looked at the comments on the BBC article page, I feel like I'm the only person in the country who agrees with the BBC's decision to air the programme last night.

The bid members have agreed to waive any taxes on FIFA for the World Cup. This is the biggest bribe, in my opinion.

I'd rather we didn't host it. In fact, I'd rather we pulled out and protested the corruption within FIFA.

I agree with you.

Timing makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, FIFA new about this long ago. I think it's scandalous that MPs and the like are trying to protect alleged corruption.

It's about time FIFA was sorted out properly.

I'll have to watch this on iPlayer later, but it sounds worth a look. I thought that FIFA was riddled with corruption anyway particularly surrounding the hosting of the World Cup. From the comments on the BBC, FIFA and the FA seem very concerned that their activities are being brought to light and are blaming the BBC for uncovering it all.

I definitely agree with it and I'm a football fan. I would be overjoyed to see England host the world cup but I (and, frankly, everyone else who knows anything about football anywhere int he world) knows the FIFA executive committee are a bunch of conniving villains who are only in it to stuff their own pockets full of as much ill-gotten wonga as they can possibly fit. The very idea that to get the world cup means we have to collude with this bunch of modern day robber barons disgusts me, frankly.

The story is that FIFA won't give the world cup to England because it means their activities will be under extreme journalistic examination in the time between now and then. Well, GOOD, frankly. I think as a statement of intent we should tell them now we're going to put their activities for the next eight years under extreme journalistic examination regardless of whether we get the world cup or not. That's what journalism is there for, to stop people in power abusing that power.

I'd genuinely love to see the world cup in England but if the cost of that is to brand exposing corruption and criminality as somehow 'unpatriotic', they can stuff it.

+1

It'd be unpatriotic to sell our souls to the proverbial by trying to hide corruption.

+2 in spades ...

And so Cameron, Beckham and Prince Willy are out there doing just that.

The Sun made a pathetic attempt to blame the Beeb for it all today - you'd think they had an agenda and an army of people who only buy the paper for the tits and football or something...

Like the rest of you, I'm siding with Aunty over this one.

I keep reading this headline as Paranormal FIFA Scandal.

If we won the bid, and then showed the program, wouldn't it be worse? Everyone would want to know how much we'd paid.

I presume all the Murdoch owned papers will be all over the Beeb claiming it's unpatriotic. My reply to that would be, fcuk you you thieving cnuts, you get to have an opinion on that when you pay your taxes here.


Actually, it would be an awesome story if we won the bid, then ratted out all the people we bribed for it, then had it taken away and given to Russia (who obviously wouldn't dream of bribing anyone for anything, that sort of thing is utterly unknown to them).

The tabloids will rip the BBC a new one if we don't win tomorrow.

Cameron should be here running the country. GIven that Wikileaks showed concern over his abilities expressed by other more experienced people, you would think that he’d be wanting to show he’s capable.

Prince William should be in his helicopter rescuing people, or at the very least at his station waiting to.

Both of them have far, far more important things to do than try to arrange a business event masquerading as a football game.

Beckham and Lord Coe can handle this. Coe knows how to grease the pole, as it were, and Beckham can swan around in his expensive suits and talk the game.

And....

Russia win the right to host the 2018 World Cup.

So there you have it. It pays to run smear campaigns against your opposition.

And it also pays not to uncover how bent FIFA are prior to the vote.

I still think the Beeb were right.

Get ready for a torrent of hate from the red-tops, and the multitude of muppets who rely on them to tell them what to think.