There are some ground rules. Fifa apparently like to have a maximum of 12 stadia hosting any particular World Cup. Each venue must hold at least 40,000 fans. And they prefer only one city to have more than one ground.

There’s no reason, except perhaps for delays and cash, that England couldn’t splash out and build a new stadium. Plymouth surely wouldn’t moan about a new 55,000 seater, ‘Tommy Tynan Towers.’ Or what about the ‘Harry Haddock Dome’ at Grimsby? Apologies. Am already wearing coat.

Another question I have, is why not use Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium? Or Hampden Park? Politically a hot potato. But it makes sense to me and if the French Rugby World Cup can also include Welsh and Scottish grounds… surely England can?

Focus did an interview with World Cup bid ambassador Richard Caborn as part of our film for Saturday. He suggests the grounds would more than likely be all English and that plans would probably involve building on existing stadia rather than starting from scratch somewhere else.

By the way, during Euro ’96 games were played at eight grounds. Capacities at the time in brackets. Wembley (78,000), Old Trafford (55,000), Anfield (41,000), Villa Park (40,000), Elland Road (40,000), Hillsborough (39,000), St James’ Park (37,000 – wow, that and Old Trafford have shot up a bit) and Nottingham’s City Ground (30,000)

Here’s looking forward to hearing your choices of perfect venues for World Cup 2018 in England. To get things going Stuart, a Watford fan in the Focus team, has given me his choices. Enjoy.

Wembley, Arsenal, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton, Leeds, Sunderland, Newcastle, Bristol City (rebuild), Watford (mmmmhh).

The way you can help is by letting us know who you think is the most gifted finisher at your club. Please leave your suggestions at the bottom of this blog. We’ll get in touch with as many players as we can and go to any club in Britain that will have us! We’ve already visited a couple of league sides including Championship newcomers Blackpool.

I think Blackpool deserve our thanks for being such great sports but I reckon there’ll be plenty of other players out there who think they can do better. Get in touch! I hope you enjoy the new feature and who knows, it might even do England's (and Chelsea’s) penalty-takers a few favours in the future.

Anyway, thanks in advance for all your suggestions of natural born finishers who you’d like to see take part. Whoever you support, I wish you and your club a great season ahead. And I hope you’ll join us on Football Focus every week from this Saturday at 1210 BST on BBC ONE and, of course, online, for all our extra features.

Find out what's on the first Focus of the season here.

Let’s start with Gary Lineker. I’m never sure whether the person who’s asking wants me to confirm Gary’s the same lovely bloke that appears in public, or instead fancies an outrageous tale of heavy drinking, chicken jalfrezi and stealing a traffic cone. Because of responsibilities to my employer, I normally plump for telling them the latter. For legal reasons I must stress this incident hasn’t happened … Gary doesn’t eat jalfrezi.

However, Stubbsy isn’t the only one of our on screen talent who sings. Garth Crooks sang a memorable karaoke ‘That’ll be the day I die’ at last year’s Christmas party, and commentator Tony Gubba has genuine operatic tendencies. A few festive seasons ago, his offering was so good he was brought back for an encore. Tony effortlessly belted out the song from the Cornetto advert with the real words. Unforgettable.

The most intimidating pundit I’ve come across is Alan Hansen. I clearly remember having to do analysis for him on my first Match of the Day. Tall, imposing and wearing all black I was totally in awe of him. He whipped through everything he wanted in about five minutes and after he left I realised I couldn’t remember a word of it. Thankfully another member of the team must have recognised my paralysis and kindly slipped me a note with all the information I needed. Alan never knew fortunately and over the years I’ve found out he’s got one of the quickest wits you’ll ever see. He can destroy people with one comment. Often me.

This brings me to Mark Lawrenson. The man who has appeared on Football Focus more than any other in the last decade. Lawro polarises the view of football fans. Some love him, the rest love to hate him. In my book he’s brilliant as well as hilarious. He’s been a great support to me while still managing to rip the mickey out of anyone in slagging off distance. When it comes to football, he always says it as he sees it, regardless of who might be annoyed.

The only time I’ve ever seen him lose his cool is when someone suggested that another football pundit in the business was better than him. Lawro was having none of it and raised his voice for the first time in my experience. So I chuckled to myself when I found this on YouTube yesterday.

It’s well worth a watch. There’s been a lot of speculation as to who Lawro might have been talking to and about. We have a number of theories here in the office but we’d love to know what you think!

What could that have meant for all our countries’ footballing success? Would Fritain (or perhaps Brance?) even have needed extra time to see off the Germans in 1966? Would Archie Gemmill have got into the team to score his wonder goal in 1978? We’ll never know I guess...

What we can work out is who would get into a Britain & France XI today. Please send us the team you think would play best together.

To get you going, here’s a suggested XI from an unnamed anorak (or anorak-ess) in the office.

In goal Paul Robinson (do you think Scotland’s Craig Gordon deserves this spot perhaps?)

Full-backs Willy Sagnol and Ashley Cole.

Central defence is Rio Ferdinand and William Gallas.

Steve Gerrard plays on the right of midfield in this line up, with Vieira and Makelele as the engine and Ryan Giggs flying down the left.

Up front Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry.

Not a bad side to be fair, but you must be able to do better. Please send us your Britain and France glory eleven.

We’ll finish the programme with it on Saturday. I wonder what the Brazillian government think about country collaborations?

People seem to have such a wide range of views on England’s ex-captain, but love him or hate him … please answer me this...

Would he be an asset for your club? Would he get in the team? Would he help results? Remember, he’s still only 31.

Off the pitch, one thing most people find hard to criticise is Beckham’s passion for investing in youth. He has set up academies in London and Los Angeles (suspiciously located??), both aimed at developing the football skills of girls and boys from as young as four years old.

Football Focus has launched a competition that also wants to encourage the next generation. In our case, it’s not about learning to juggle the ball. Instead, we’re after finding future football film-makers. If you’re between 13 and 19 years old then please send us your idea for a film you’d like to make.

Your film could be on anything from why Scotland will win Euro 2008 to your hunt to find the tastiest pie in football. Totally up to you.

Whoever sends in our favourite idea will win the chance to go out with a Football Focus crew as they film one of the programme's features. Imagine if it was your idea on the show.

All the details of how to enter are on the Blast website. Really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. As well as what you think to David Beckham joining your club.

If you actually support either of the league’s top two, your choice is obvious. If not, you may well have spent the last decade or so resenting Man United’s success. All that money and popularity. All those trophies. Difficult to accept graciously.

As a Leeds fan, this season is a particular quandary. Manchester United have never been my second team. And the 1970 FA Cup final defeat to Chelsea is still too recent to forget. So now I’ve got a feeling I last experienced when I was seven years old. Two of my best friends held parties on the same day at the same time. Several miles apart. An impossible decision to make without seriously upsetting myself. Tears were shed - and remember I did have half of something to celebrate on that occasion.

Anyway, unless you want Chelsea to win a third straight Premiership, you have no choice. You have to become a closet Manchester United fan. But can you? Please let us know so we can complete this important sociological study for our special report on Football Focus.

Is it for the better? Is it just a financial necessity? Or is it eroding some of the history of the game?

However, not everyone agrees with my romantic take on the Brunswick Centre. The phrase ‘pig ugly’ regularly crops up from outsiders – sometimes not even as a direct reference to me. But you’ll never take away my rose-tinted fondness for the ‘Brunnie’.

The only other place about which I feel as defensive, is Elland Road. I doubt I’m alone in feeling a loyalty to my team’s football ground?
But is that loyalty misplaced ?

I reckon about a quarter of you reading this can probably answer my question more definitely - based on the fact that 26 sides have moved to a new stadium in the English leagues alone since Scunthorpe United left the Old Showground for Glanford Park in 1988.

Through the alphabet from Arsenal and Brighton to Wigan and Yeovil, it seems no team can guarantee staying put nowadays.

Doncaster Rovers fans are about to become the latest to uproot. On New Year’s Day they’ll take on Huddersfield Town at home. Not at Belle Vue, but at the new Keepmoat stadium.

All the evidence suggests sentiment can no longer stand in the way of comfort, capacity & commercialism.

There’s a lot of talk about what the likes of Everton and West Ham might be thinking? My club hasn’t moved to pastures new yet. I guess in my ideal world, Leeds would stay at Elland Road but the stadium would just get bigger and better. (Premiership football is also in the plan of course but that’s now been shifted onto Santa’s list for next year..)

Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge have shown that developing an existing ground can work. Capacities have grown to 76,000 and 42,420 respectively. Oh.. and if you need one more example of successfully revamping an existing site then please pop in to my Brunswick Centre. Now rebranded as ‘The Brunswick’, I’d be staggered if it doesn’t win an urban development award.

The concrete has been painted. Iceland has become Waitrose. The kebab shop has become Carluccios. It even has two chemists now, in case you feel really poorly. Which is particularly handy for supporters of Leeds.

Anyway, please let us know what you think about football grounds past, present and future. What's better? What's worse? Which ones should we concentrate on and why? We'll try and follow up on your thoughts in the film, which will hopefully be broadcast in a few weeks' time.

As you know, Focus goes out on BBC1 on a Saturday .. so what do I do for the rest of the week you ask? Well, typically on a Tuesday morning I chair the Focus meeting. John Motson, Jonathan Pearce, Steve Wilson, Garth Crooks and Mark Bright gather with the rest of the production team to chat through what we should put in the weekend’s show.

I then have to choose which stories to commission off the back of this often excitable, always entertaining session. Ideally, at least one of our interviews will become the lead story on the BBC Football website come Friday.

By Friday afternoon, Mark Lawrenson will pitch up to tell me that I’ve picked all the wrong things.

It’s always a late night on a Friday as our talented producers and reporters finish off the programme’s features.

Saturday 8am is the signal for myself, the programme director, production co-ordinator and presenter Manish Bhasin to have our ritual morning buttie. We then rehearse the show as much as we can. At nine and a half minutes past twelve, Mark Lawrenson is nowhere to be seen. Miraculously he always seems to appear on transmission. And he doesn’t tend to perform too badly - although the jokes rarely improve.

As far as my background goes, I was born in Leeds, grew up in Hampshire and became BBC Look East’s sports reporter in Norwich at the time of Alan Partridge. I was also East Anglia’s Pudsey Bear for four years. I’ve produced and directed documentaries for BBC1 as well as working in comedy and entertainment. I’m lucky enough to have produced the likes of Ricky Gervais & Steve Merchant, Jon Culshaw and Matt Lucas & David Walliams. I was privileged to be put in charge of running the BBC’s Munich production centre during the World Cup. An experience I’ll never forget.