Ireland/Scot bid 'victim of geopolitical shift'

The Ireland/Scotland bid team that failed to land EURO 2008 has insisted they did nothing wrong in their campaign but were victims of a geopolitical shift in European football from the west to the east.

UEFA’s Executive Committee yesterday voted for a joint bid from Austria Switzerland to stage the 2008 European Championships, with the Celtic campaign ranked among the bottom three bids of the seven contenders.