ENGLAND'S total humiliation at the hands of the FIFA Executive Committee over the 2018 World Cup bidding might yet have serious repercussions - for BRITISH football.
It is openly acknowledged that our next-door neighbours had the best technical bid, they fielded the most-star-studded bid team: Prince William, David Cameron and Boris Johnston (three of the four most-famous Old Etonians alive), plus the best-known footballer on the planet and the universally-admired Lord Sebastian Coe - they still didn't win.
If the presence of the future "King of England" cannot tip the balance in England's favour, what can?
But what worries me, and this is potentially damaging to Scotland, is - if FIFA Executive Committee members such as the odious Jack Warner can look the likes of Prince William in the eye, promise to back England, then back other, less-worthy bids, then can we believe ANYTHING they say?
Remember how, during the row about a British football team at the 2012 London Olympics, we were told that Sepp Blatter and others on the FIFA Executive - even Jack Warner, the prime mover in demands for a single British team - had given a solemn promise that an all-English Olympic team in 2012 would not affect the international independence of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
After Thursday's events in Zurich - can we still believe those guarantees?
The FIFA Executive are proven liars. If they stay true to the form they have shown over 2018, we might as well get ready for a Great Britain team being forced upon us for 2014 or 2018.
England lost on Thursday. Let's hope the four Home Nations don't become even bigger losers to the crooks and charlatans who now control world football.
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