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FA Preparing Bid To Host The 2030 World Cup

FA Preparing Bid To Host The 2030 World Cup

It's coming home...

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

The World Cup could be coming home in 2030.

That's because the FA are plotting a bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

Deputy leader of Labour party, Tom Watson, has backed a bid by England to host the footballing extravaganza.

Jeremy Corbyn has also publicly backed the idea on social media and thinks it has the potential to inspire and bring people together.

England actually launched a bid to host this summer's World Cup back in 2010, but failed after Russia eventually won the right to host it, but 2030 could be the year football comes come for the first time since '66.

In an interview with Sky News, Watson was highly enthusiastic about a potential bid:

"I've been driving my kids crazy because I am old enough to remember Italia 90 when we got through to the semi-finals and the country was alive.

"After a very difficult year, seeing the country united these last few weeks has been fantastic - and it seems to me you look at Premier League football, which is the best in the world, you look at our lower league football - which is really well run, the Football Foundation has made investments in grassroots football.

"It's the national game, it can bring the country together, it can give us hope."

He continues, saying: "We were disappointed in 2018 when we did the World Cup bid, it seems to me that we should be bidding for the World Cup 2030.

"That's a few years off and we don't know who's going to be in government in a few years' time. If we're in government, I hope it's one of the first things a Labour government does, which is work with our FA to try and put a World Cup bid together.

"If the Conservatives are still in government, then we'd like to work with them to make sure that a bid is successful."

Thoughts on a potential bid in 2030?

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Topics: Football News, Football, England, World Cup