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Following the withdrawal of News of the World as sponsors, the Nationwide Building Society emerged to provide new sponsorship in 2008. [4] This sponsorship lasted for two years, with the title Nationwide Football Annual being retained after the end of the sponsorship. Last week Human Rights Watch said: "The possibility that Fifa could award Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup despite its appalling human rights record and closed door to any monitoring exposes Fifa's commitments to human rights as a sham." Johnson said: “We went into the process in 2010 [for the 2022 World Cup finals] and got one vote, as I am sure you remember. We don’t want to end up in a situation like that again. We have to be realistic: Saudi is a strong bid. They have a lot of resources, and not just the 2034 World Cup [bidding project]. Saudi Arabia has hosted several major sporting events since 2018, including football, Formula 1, golf and boxing, and will stage the Club World Cup in December. With the government partnerships – not to mention a potential Asian co-host – requiring a much greater timespan, Football Australia bowed to the inevitable on Monday and declared itself out of the running. This was despite the huge success of its women’s World Cup this year, held in the northern hemisphere summer period. Australia will now concentrate on landing the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup in 2026 and the newly expanded men’s Fifa Club World Cup in 2029.

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Football Australia chief executive James Johnson said bidding for the World Cup was "not going to be favourable to Australia". Fifa said it will "conduct a targeted dialogue with bidders, to ensure complete, comprehensive bids are received and evaluated against the minimum hosting requirements as also previously approved by the Fifa Council. Boxing world title fights have also been held in Saudi Arabia. Britain's Anthony Joshua, who beat Andy Ruiz in Riyadh in 2019, said he was "here for boxing" before losing to Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah last year.

Saudi Arabia's international standing was severely damaged by the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a US-based Saudi journalist who was a prominent critic of the government. Football Australia withdrew from the 2034 bidding process on Monday night, clearing the way for Saudi, where daytime temperatures in Jeddah in June and July reach the high 30 Celsius. Although no final decisions have been made, and the official vote is not until next year’s Fifa Congress, there is no barrier to the second Middle Eastern World Cup finals in four editions of the tournament. They are disrupting European football paying higher dollars. This is a disruption in the market and that is what positions Saudi in a strong way. From the government, top down they are prioritising investment in football. That is difficult to compete with." Another sporting milestone for Saudi Arabia?

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This publication first appeared in 1887, produced by the Athletic News as a rival to the Football Annual. Like the older publication, it initially aimed to provided coverage of all football codes popular in England, including rugby football (both rugby union and rugby league after the codes split) in addition to association football. The final edition to date was published in the summer of 2022 for the 2022-23 season, as no deal could be agreed between the authors and prospective publishers for the 2023-24 edition. The best chance for Fifa to obtain binding guarantees to protect workers' rights, ensure freedom of expression and prevent discrimination linked to the World Cup is during the host selection process - not after the hosts have been confirmed and tournament preparation has begun." As we live in an increasingly divided and aggressive world, we show once again that football, the leading global sport, unites like nothing else." Fifa had accelerated the bidding process for 2034, to the surprise of many of its members, this month. It effectively meant interested nations had to make major commitments immediately on bidding for a World Cup that is still 11 years away. Morocco, Portugal and Spain are the only bidders for the 2030 edition, with games also played in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.A second winter World Cup looms after the last obstacle to Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 tournament was removed – putting Fifa at odds with European football’s most powerful national associations once more. It has been criticised for its human rights violations - 81 men were executed on one day last year - women's rights abuses, the criminalisation of homosexuality, the restriction of free speech and the war in Yemen. A winter World Cup will, once again, require the pausing of domestic league seasons before Christmas, and the extension of those seasons into the summer.

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Coastal regions of north-west France have been battered by gale-force winds of 128mph (207km/h), as Storm Ciarán makes landfall in Brittany and Normandy.

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Football's world governing body Fifa had said the 2034 World Cup would be held in Asia or Oceania, and an Australian bid was regarded as the only potential challenger to Saudi Arabia, which announced its intention to bid shortly after Fifa's decision. Everywhere we went was well organised; we were well looked after. If that's a sign of what a World Cup might look like, structurally it will be really good." Despite receiving support from the Asian Football Confederation, Saudi Arabia would likely be viewed as a controversial host.