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England 2018 WC bid supported

AFP,London
England have an "extremely good" chance of hosting the 2018 World Cup, a FIFA vice-president said Friday.
Scotland's David Will, who has held his position with football's world governing body for 15 years, was speaking as the British Government launched a feasibility study into staging the 2018 tournament.
The 2012 Olympic Games are due to be held in London and many now see hosting the World Cup as the logical next step.
England, who won the World Cup the only time they staged the tournament in 1966, suffered an embarrassing failure in their bid to host the 2006 event, which will be staged in Germany after the Football Association (FA) broke a 'gentleman's agreement' to support their fellow Europeans.
The World Cup takes place every four years and FIFA have a policy of ensuring that each successive tournament takes place in a different continent.
South Africa will host it in 2010, South
America -- most likely Brazil -- in 2014 and although no final decision has been taken 2018 should see it return to Europe.
"I would say England would have an extremely good chance of winning," Will told the Press Association.
"There is a huge difference in the perception of England in FIFA now. At the time of the 2006 bid, from the beginning there were problems over the gentleman's agreement with Germany meaning England had no support from the rest of Europe.
"Furthermore England had drifted almost completely out of the international scene," he added.
"Since then the FA (Football Association) have done an enormous amount of work with extensive assistance programmes in Africa and the Caribbean and to a lesser extent Asia and South America.
"Their standing on the international scene has absolutely soared.
"Furthermore there are a limited number of countries in Europe who could manage to stage the World Cup and Germany, Italy, France and Spain have all had it since England were last the hosts in 1966."
Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown, also a Scot, announced the study.
"It's about time it came back to us. I believe we've got a very, very good chance of winning this," Brown said.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick added: "Any successful World Cup bid needs government support, as we saw with the 2012 Olympic success.
"If the 2018 World Cup comes to Europe we will be giving very serious consideration to making a bid.
"A World Cup in England would be a fantastic event, and we welcome the Government's study to look into the feasibility of hosting the tournament in this country.
"However, the FA will not make any firm decisions on any such bid until the autumn of 2006 at the earliest."
Meanwhile culture minister Tessa Jowell appeared to rule out a UK-wide bid, saying the concept had lost its appeal to FIFA since Japan and South Korea co-hosted the last World Cup in 2002.
"The FA and FIFA are very clear that you can't have a UK-wide World Cup bid," Jowell said.