Anson: Bid told ‘our media killed us’
Bid chief executive Andy Anson gives his diagnosis of England 2018’s defeat:
“We have spoken to some executive committee members. And I’ll be very clear that what they are saying to us is one thing.
“I’ll caveat this by saying this is not our excuse at all. But they are saying to us that our media killed us.
“My only issue, as you know, with the Sunday Times and the BBC, and more the BBC, was the timing of it.
“For us, it was almost impossible to bounce back with three or four weeks to go.
“And then in the last week to actually know that Fifa executive committee members were saying to us that our media is killing us.
“I do feel people let us down, I’d be lying if I said they didn’t. People who promised us our vote obviously went the other way,” he said.
“I honestly felt that we had enough comfort, enough people, enough room to hope that things would go alright and we would go through the first round.”
