Probably was meant to buy us a couple of votes somewhere along some line.

The pathetically weak response from the FA to the Garcia-Eckert affair makes me wonder if there is not more brown stuff around about the England bid that has not yet surfaced.

There's "brown stuff" and green stuff around everywhere. If there weren't, Blatter and his cronies would have been hung out to dry long ago. They bought darn near everyone that could be bought at one time or another, which is darn near everyone.

FIFA basically turned the voting processing into a brown bag free for all so it's no surprise they're stuffing their own snouts in the trough.