Well written and visually stunning blog Pitch Invasion have started to take a look at the 2018 World Cup bid candidates in what will be the start of a series looking at the host candidates.

Below is just a snippet of their article, visit the site to read the whole thing, hopefully 2018england.co.uk will be able to help them out when it comes to writing the article on England’s bid.

“Perhaps the least impressive of the three likely European bids (England and Russia being the others) at first glance, the Benelux bid should still be taken seriously.

After all, they have the delights of Total Football and Belgian beer going for them. And as Belgian bid organiser Alain Courtois emphasised, rotating the World Cup around the major nations forever is no fun.

‘We will face some big countries but we think we can get the support of small nations. It would give out a message that it is not just the same countries that organise such an event.’”