SO, ENGLAND will not be hosting the 2018 football World Cup – not much of a surprise there.

It is very fitting and appropriate that an organisation such as FIFA, reported to be full of corruption, bribes, scandal and suspect dealing, chose a country such as Russia to host its show piece.

Then, to add insult to injury, they pick a red-hot oven of a place such as Qatar to be the hosts in 2022. After various Englishmen and English organisations exposed the very worst of FIFA, no one should be surprised that England were dismissed in round one, obtaining only two votes, one of which was their own.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.