Football's coming home?

Well what can we say, except a resounding No, or should that be Het.

Despite being given verbal assurances of enough support to get us through to the last round of voting those votes failed to materialise.

Not even the attendance of our own three lions for the last days bouts of diplomacy were enough to get us past the first round of voting. Two votes - one of which was our own! Gutted!

Milton Keynes and the rest of the country look on in astonished amazement. We had the best presentation, the best technical bid, the best commercial case. Tales of fraud and corruption will occupy the press for months to come. We know some good investigators!