Corrupt or not, Russia and Qatar should remain World Cup hosts
Singapore
IF Russia and Qatar weren't feeling the jitters before, they surely will be now. The hosts of the Fifa World Cup in 2018 and 2022 respectively are facing the nightmare prospect of having the privilege of staging football's most high-profile tournament taken away from them.
Neither would have been too pleased at hearing the recent comments by Domenico Scala, Fifa's head of audit and compliance, who warned that the awards could be annulled if there was concrete new evidence of corruption during the bidding process.
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