The World Cup Boycott

First off, I detest this paper usually with a fashion - sensationalist with a loose connection to truth and it's part in demonizing the Hillsborough dead and families, for that it's "The Scum" for me but this headline regarding the proposed part sell off of the World Cup in soccer (or Association Football to some) gets it spot on.

The game is about world teams playing together, supporters mixing learning about each other other from richer nations in much of Europe and the Americas to the least well off in parts of Africa and plans that impinge upon regular club and regional competitions such as the Uefa Championship in Europe, extending the frequency of the World Cup and essentially converting it into a sponsored elite event  is just wrong.

So to see Uefa, the English FA and the associations that cover the Caribbean, South and Central America and Asia reject it is so right especially as it was conducted very much in secret is heartening.

The games don't belong to FIFA and it's controversial leader to sell.