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Have a top weekend, all!

To get you pumped up – James Brown!

And lo, a week of big highs and lows draws to a close. The Spoiler is exhausted. For those of you [...]

The Spoiler’s final word on the World Cup 2018 bid

Everyone has gone totally mental today over the failed World Cup bid. But let’s put things into perspective.

Whose fault is it that England didn’t get the World Cup?

Let the finger pointing commence!

Right, well, that didn’t work out. One option would be to shrug our shoulders, think something philosophical like “oh well, it’s nearly a decade away, we’ll get over it.”

But sod that.

Who can we collectively blame for this mess? Cast your [...]

2018 World Cup presentations over, last chance to gamble!

“Kneel before Zod!”

For those who missed it, that was some dynamite television.

To summarise: for Holland/Belgium, Cruyff complained about fat kids, they showed a Poirot film, then Gullit attempted to flog bikes to Fifa, explaining that “bikes are not a gimmick”.

Spain/Portugal stood staring at their [...]

8 reasons why England should host the World Cup… plus 2 why they shouldn’t

Kelly Brook – opinionated

Famous faces have been out in force, throwing their rusty pennies into the mix to explain just why England should host the World Cup. Kelly Brook (above) was one of them. Find their moving tributes after the jump…

Getting an actor involved doesn’t quite pay off for USA

Morgan Freeman brings some much-needed movie star professionalism to the USA World Cup presentation:

“I’m sorry, I missed a page.”

D’oh!

David Beckham trusts the 22 FIFA execs – and here they are!

Beckham – naive?

David Beckham is certainly feeling upbeat about tomorrow’s draw. He said this of the 22 men with England’s World Cup bid in their hands:

“I think that we can trust every one of the members.”

But who are these “members” of whom he speaks. [...]

Who should host the 2018 World Cup?

“I want to be BA”

In a World Cup 2018 bid recreation to the A Team, Prime Minister David Cameron was seen sipping some milk, before being lugged onto a plane to Zurich – a journey which would find [...]