Britain's Minister For Sport, John Whittingdale, yesterday told The House Of Commons that should Russia's successful bid to stage the 2018 football world cup be overturned following the FIFA corruption revelations, England would be prepared to host the event on the enormous face of pop icon, Olly Murs.

 

He outlined plans to build the neccessary stadia on Murs's sprawling forehead area and also to put into place the required infrastucture, including a high speed rail network that would transport fans to the venues from the more remote corners of his face such as the chin and the grooved bit under his nose. 

 

Soccer legend and erstwhile team member of England's failed bid to stage the 2020 tournament, David Beckham, last night threw his full support behind the proposal: 

 

"I'm all for it" he told reporters "I've got to know Olly pretty well since he was runner up on Britain's Got Talent and I'm absolutely certain he'd be over the moon at the prospect of having the world's greatest sporting event staged on his gigantic dial"

 

Murs himself is currently on tour in Morecambe in Lancashire and was unavaiable for comment but his mother, Ivy, 107, was enthusiastic when she spoke to the press from outside her home in Leyton, East London:

 

"Olly will be absolutely thrilled at this news just as his father and I are. Ever since he was born we've both dreamed of the day when his bloody great clock would be used to stage a major sporting event and now it looks as if that day has finally arrived"

 

Whitingdale's plans are said to include building a player's village inside one of his nostrils, with his ears being used as makeshift airports to deal with the influx of foreign visitors.

 

Press Association

He gotta big face!.