isn't it the people who accept bribes for votes that 'don't help' ?
Obviously. But all the accusations etc that got leaked by our own press did not help.
If they've been bribed, it wouldn't matter what the press said.
Would the Spanish and Russian media sources run the stories as much as we did here? Essentially, FIFA will see our country as a grass - this is our punishment.
Why would you think that it matters what the media have reported? The money spoke, and it didn't come from England, Holland/Belgium or Spain/Portugal. It's incredibly naive to think that some media reports would have anything to do with the outcome.