Gordon Brown has welcomed today’s decision by FIFA to abandon its World Cup rotation policy from 2018, paving the way for an England bid.
In a Downing Street statement, the PM said he was “delighted” by the decision and that the Football Association would have the “full support” of the Government should they decide to bid.
Read the transcript for the film below:
This is wonderful news for England that it can make a bid for the World Cup. It’s 52 years, in 2018, since England had the World Cup. I think most people round the world will think that the home of football should get the World Cup at this stage, and I will do everything in my power going round the world to persuade other countries if the FA bids that it should come to England. It looks as if we could have a great sporting decade over the next 10, 11 years. We’ve got the Olympics in 2012, there’s a chance of the World Rugby Cup in 2015, there’s a Commonwealth Games potentially coming to Scotland in 2014 and then with the possibility with the World Cup in football coming to the home of football in 2018, I think it could be the best sporting decade in our country’s history.
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