2006

So then, FIFA have made their decision, and have selected South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup. Excellent news as far as I’m concerned, because, although I’d have loved to have visited Tunisia or Morocco just as much, the overland journey from London to South Africa should be a great one.

It’s just gone half-time on the way to the next World Cup, and Football’s Leaving Home is undergoing a revamp. To celebrate, we’re going to play a memorial game in Battersea Park, in the same place where we played the inaugural game in 2002 and we will be showing the one hour movie of the 2002 trip in the pub afterwards.

I don’t know if this is true or not, but I heard on BBC Radio 5 that FIFA had pretty much decided to give the 2014 World Cup to Brazil.