The Guus backs England in bid to reform FIFA

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England have received powerful support from former Russia national coach Guus Hiddink in their demand for a total clean-up at FIFA.

Hiddink’s former employers, the Russian Football ­Federation, were handed the 2018 World Cup ahead of ­England by the Sepp Blatter’s FIFA executive committee.

But, amid the allegations of corruption within world football’s governing body, Hiddink supports the FA’s demands for a FIFA revolution.

Hiddink said: “FIFA must ­realise by now they have a ­problem with their image. The world’s governing football body has not come out of this unscathed. It is time for changes.”

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Sport In Brief: England set for Dublin friendly

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The Football Association of Ireland are in talks about hosting a friendly with England at Dublin's Aviva Stadium. Reports that a game could take place next June have been dismissed by the English FA, but the FAI say they are "in discussions with the English FA about a friendly... The discussions are ongoing and it is expected an announcement will be made within the next month."

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Football Association have nine days to come up with recommended successor to chairman Lord Triesman

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The Football Association nominations committee leading the search for a new chairman met on Monday to consider a list of up to a dozen potential candidates to succeed Lord Triesman as full-time chairman.

By Telegraph staff 9:39PM GMT 13 Dec 2010

The committee, chaired by Bolton chairman Phil Gartside, met headhunter Paul Nolan and acting FA chairman Roger Burden at Wembley, with just nine days until they are due to recommend a candidate to the main FA board.

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SPAIN-PORTUGAL

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Could the Fifa executive committee put aside its apparent antipathy to a joint bid and name Spain and Portugal as co-hosts for the 2018 World Cup?

The less-than-smooth running of the 2002 finals in South Korea and Japan, both of whom are bidding for the 2022 World Cup, is still remembered bitterly in the hallowed hallways of Fifa's Zurich headquarters, while the organisation of the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine is still fraught with problems.

However, the successful staging of Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland showed that two countries can get along without political bickering and infighting.

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UK football fixtures being postponed due to snow and ice

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Continued snow and freezing cold temperatures has led to many of Saturday's games across the United Kingdom being postponed

Football has been hit heavily, with Manchester United's trip to Blackpool in the Premier League failing to beat the cold snap and several games from the Championship and lower leagues being called off.

In Scotland, today's entire SPL fixture list is off, while many other fixtures have had to be postponed.

Rugby and horse racing has also been heavily hit, with many race meetings over the next few days already being called off.

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World Cup 2018: Spain's emotions range from perplexed to angry

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Jaime Lissavetzky said it best. "I am getting used to losing," the Spanish sports minister shrugged sadly.

There was a depressing familiarity to today's proceedings: Spain felt that it had the best bid but was left disappointed – just as the country had been in the battle to host the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. For many, the inescapable feeling is that sporting fashions and political manoeuvrings, not meritocracy, hold sway.

Spain had been handed a very favourable report from the Fifa inspection committee and expected to get at least nine votes in the first round.

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World Cup - Russia to host 2018 World Cup

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Russia have beaten England in the fight to host the 2018 World Cup.

 Russia led in every round of voting and won an absolute majority on the second round of voting against European rivals England and the joint-bids of Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal. England were eliminated after the first round with only two votes from the 22-strong committee. The announcement of the winning bid was made by FIFA president Sepp Blatter at Zurich's Messezentrum. Russia and Qatar, who will stage the 2022 finals, are both first-time hosts. Read more here......