Anson: England 2018 bid makes commercial sense

Anson was speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday prior to a meeting on Friday with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) executive committee including president Mohamed Bin Hammam.

"One of our key messages is that if you have the World Cup in England in 2018 it will be the most commercially successful World Cup ever," Anson told Reuters.

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