United > England. But England > FIFA.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter this week (...of course you have...) you will have noticed my shockingly hyper-levels of dissapointment towards England not winning the 2018 World Cup bid. And if you follow my blog, you will understand what I mean by 'shockingly hyper-levels of dissapointment'!

I make no secret of the fact that I'm not an England fan. Like many other true reds - and true football fans of any club for that matter - I am 100% a club over country supporter.

But unlike many United fans, it may suprise people to know that I played my part in 'Backing the Bid'.

I worked with sports publishing company Seven46, content providers for the Bid (speaches, Bid Book etc), for four months over the summer. During that time, the Bid and seemingly pointless FIFA Inspection Visits in August firmly gripped and absorbed the office. The hours myself and my colleagues at both Seven46 and Unspun, the official event organisers for the Inspection Visits, put into the Bid deserved a lot more than two solitary, embarassing votes. And worst of all, only three out of the 22 FIFA officials bothered to look through the technical bid - information and work that I can assure you was thoroughly and brilliantly put together. And if anyone actually bothered doing their jobs and bothered to 'Inspect' the country's pedigree to host a World Cup, they would have had no doubt as to who would be the most worthy hosts.

I was sad that England didn't win it. I am sad that it will take a lot longer to see the best footballers in the world embark on my country for a World Cup than I would have hoped, but I am mostly sad that the dedication, time and effort put in to making our bid the best was not even acknowledged, let alone deemed worthy to win.

Whether a hardcore Arsenal fan, Citeh fan, Leeds fan or Scunthorpe fan, I think it's agreed that this the one thing we were genuinly all United in. But corruption ruined it for us all. Such a shame.