While Australia makes strange some odd football decisions

Meanwhile, Australia, which will be hosting the 2015 Asian Cup, plans to stage the event in January – Australia’s hottest and, as we have just seen, most climatically challenging month! In the aftermath of the failure of Australia’s FIFA World Cup 2022 bid, many media commentators suggested that Australia’s bid failed because it was "too clean". Yet the Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that the Football Federation Australia could not account for $11 million of the $45.6 million provided by the Federal Government to help mount the bid. In addition, the FFA’s use of ‘lobbyists’ Peter Hargitay and Fedor Radmann in the bid has been questioned. Described by investigative journalist Andrew Jennings (the veteran reporter behind the BBC documentary ‘FIFA’s Dirty Secrets’) as “dirty people”, Hargitay and Radmann received in excess of $3.5 million for their consultancy services, a fee that would have risen by a further $6.5 million payment if the bid had been successful. Nigel Benton, Publisher, Australasian Leisure Management. http://www.ausleisure.com.au