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Caborn to head 2018 World Cup bid?
Independent on Sunday, The, Jun 3, 2007 by Alan Hubbard SPORTS DIARIST
Should Richard Caborn's record run as sports minister come to an end when Gordon Brown reaches into the No 10 broom cupboard, he is likely to be offered a new job: as leader of an England bid for the 2018 World Cup. Westminster sources say Caborn's networking qualities, political contacts - instrumental in securing the 2012 Olympics - and his desire for a big job in football make him the ideal candidate.
But would he accept what might be a poisoned chalice? Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, is again playing down English hopes, suggesting Australia, China and Russia would be favoured ahead of them. Doubtless the 63-year-old Caborn will recall how one of his predecessors, Tony Banks, found football politics a sharply different game when he became the abortive 2006 bid "ambassador" after quitting the sports ministry. But the persuasive Brown is keen that a new England bid goes ahead and sees Caborn as the man to head it. Caborn, himself, fresh from his triumph with the Burns Report, might prefer to make a different bid - to become the first independent chairman of the FA.
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