Saudi Arabia was left as a shoo-in to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia confirmed it would not make a bid for soccer’s global showpiece on Tuesday’s deadline day.

Well, shit ⚽️

@pratik gross

@pratik what really stinks, thinking (& reading) more about it, is that SA doesn’t even have to pretend or make promises about any kind of reforms

@cgrayson @toddgrotenhuis I consider SA to be one of the more dangerous countries. I just hope we can wean ourselves off oil just so SA can decline in importance