Sorry Mr K I wanted to go ten to the dozen on the weekend?s premier league but England's 2018 World Cup rival Russia has turn into something of a soap opera...

So let start from the beginning Alexei Sorokin central to the Russian bid team, made a few disparaging remarks about London, "It's no secret, for example, that in London they have the highest crime rate compared with other European cities, and the highest level of alcohol consumption among young people, we could start a conversation about the lack of tolerance and inciting ethnic hatred by English fans, but do not behave like the aunt in the kitchen criticizing our neighbors?.

Sorokin also reflected on problems of racism in Russia, while in the same breathe justifying the ?monkey? treatment meted out on our black footballers, he said Russia did not make capital, for example, out of Manchester United fans being anti-American by burning a US flag,........

Only for Miguel Lopez, chief executive of the Iberian (Spain, Portugal) bid, to accuse England of doing a deal with the USA in breach of Fifa regulations, ?This is all very strange. On 28 September [David Dein] held a press conference in which he said they were sure it would not be long before the United States withdrew from the fight for 2018, this gentleman agreement must be telepathic or prophetic, because the United States did not pull out until 15 October?.......

To be fair to Sorokin "I can only apologize for this misunderstanding, we have the tapes of the interview and I know for a fact that I didn't break any rules, did not try to hurt or discredit our bid rivals, there was no malice intended, I'm 100 per cent sure of that, I am really sorry that because of several interpretations my interview was distorted. In the interview I used London's problems as an example. Such things are part of life in any big city, If you're talking specifically about my interview in the Sport Express and what the British media made out of it, I must say my words have been distorted in three different stages, first, people in the Sport Express had interpreted some of my comments in a vague way, not exactly what I was trying to express, second, much of it was lost in translation from Russian into English and then the rest was made up by the English journalists themselves. Because of all these things the final content came out in a wrong way." .......

Brezhnev would have pinned a medal on his chest for that load of old bullocks ......

Which prompts the question as to why then did the FA fall into the trap by responding in the first place , anybody who has been in Leicester Square returning home on a Saturday night at 2am would know that the young people of London like a good party, nothing wrong with that, the vast majority are non violent, like any modern City there is a degree of anti social behavior, but for the English 2018 World Cup bid team to make a formal complaint to FIFA over Russian ?slur? is nonsensical. It would not have any recourse to the England bid, which makes any complain a case of ?handbags?? and should have been ignored....

Sep Bladder, sorry typo Blatter needs to be removed from office, for a multitude of reasons all on record.........My Grandmother (English) says there is no fool like an old fool..... Blatter is confused between ?Countries? and the definition of failure to comply with the sport ruling body that are commiserate to the court of Arbitration, what Blatter's comments reflect more strongly is the ongoing paradox between football and failure to make positive change.