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And still ringing in our ears are the words of Ángel Maria Villar Llona， a member of Fifas executive committee: Fifa is clean， Fifa does things honestly， Fifa works for football and the world. Does he protest too much? Of course not. The fact that England secured just two out of the 22 voteFunny old game？funny games， despite having， by general acclaim， the most exciting and persuasive bid， was just rotten luck. Alexei Sorokin， who led Russias bid， quoted Churchills description of Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Surely， after yesterdays vote in Zurich， that epithet must now apply to Fifa.

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No one likes a sore loser， so let our congratulations to Russia for securing the 2018 World Cup be taken in the spirit in which they are offered. Roman Abramovich， the billionaire oligarch who was such a key player in the Russian bid team， looked particularly pleased with himself.

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World Cup 2018: a Russian bid victory compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall and described as a 'game-changer'