Rotten to the Core

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>2009. Russia and England are bidding to stage the 2018 World Cup. FIFA Secretary-General François Picard has been offered a small fortune that will enable him to retire in luxury if he secures the World Cup for Russia.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Picard works out that a no-hoper bid for the European football championships in 2016 will undermine England's World Cup bid and supports it against a bid from his own country. But when the no-hoper bid proves more credible than anyone thought Picard finds himself in a hole which gets ever bigger as he desperately tries to dig his way out.</span></p>