Despite the severe cold wave gripping Britain its people have been heated up by the rejection of their bid to host the football World Cup in 2018. Newspapers are spitting venom claiming that FIFA rejected the British bid in spite of their infrastructure, presentation and stadiums being the best among all countries. There is some truth in that. Britain will be hosting the Olympics in 2012 and hence will have newly built stadiums ready to host football matches. Britain being a tiny country travel between venues in summer should be no problem and they did mount a very serious attempt by sending the Prime Minister, David Cameron, Prince William, David Beckham among other big names. However, their fury seems out of proportion. FIFA delegates are being accused of accepting bribes and lying about their voting intentions. Apparently Russia knew 24 hours before the vote that they were going to win. Roger Burden, Chief of English FA has resigned accusing FIFA of dishonesty. English fury is probably because of a perceived insult of having been rejected in the first round getting only 2 votes. Also the English know that despite their immensely publicised league and absurdly paid players they have no hope of winning the Cup unless it is held in Britain. There is terrific nostalgia for 1966 when they won for the only time because the Cup was staged in Britain and there was some very dubious refereeing. However FIFA may have been too clever. Russia will have problems because of the lack of infrastructure in a vast country and if Iran gets the bomb Qatar may not be around in 2022. Not just the voting even results of the World Cup are suspect.