ABC show featuring bid spearhead Frank Lowy to air on Tuesday nightLowy admits he has a ‘sour taste’ over Qatar’s winning bid for 2022New depths of skulduggery (devious behavior) as countries lobbied for bidding rights to the 2022 World Cup will be revealed in a fresh documentary on Tuesday night. Australia won just one vote from Fifa’s 22 delegates in the fraudulent and tawdry process,which is now the subject of the ABC’s Played: Inside Australia’s Failed World Cup bid.The funnelling of money to people who were in a position to influence a vote was done on an industrial scale; tens of millions of dollars,” tag Ryan, or Australia bid spearhead Frank Lowy’s trusted adviser,says in the documentary.
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Source: theguardian.com