British MPs to debate joint UK-Ireland 2030 World Cup bid after Uefa blow

The debate takes place as the Irish Examiner revealed Saturday that Uefa favours Spain-Portugal as its preferred option to go forward to a Fifa bidding vote in 2024

2030 is the next opportunity for a European country to host a World Cup, and it believes that Spain-Portugal bid would be overwhelmingly favoured by world football ahead of an England-led campaign.

The likely doomed UK-Ireland Fifa World Cup 2030 bid will be discussed with MPs in British Parliament tomorrow, by sports and broadcast chiefs.

MPs from across all parties will examine the €3.3m cost to fund a feasibility study that is being borne by British taxpayers for the England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland co-host bid.