Qatar World Cup

Some of your posts on here show you know sweet F all about soccer and it's history.

Without Europe soccer is NOTHING.

This is where the top teams, the top leagues, the money and before Asians started discovering soccer where the fan base was.

In Mexico in summer 1986 teams had to play around midday at altitude in order to satisfy the European viewing audience.

If you take the European leagues out of world soccer you got SFA.

No ones gives a rat ass who wins the Brazilian or Argentine leagues anymore since most of their countries best players have never even played senior football in their leagues.

And those two countries would historically have two of the strongest leagues outside Europe.

And you appear to be going out of your way to defend Qatar for some reason.

As for the beer, it is a real screwup for FIFA because Bud have a long time deal with them to supply beer (well what some call beer).

And now that deal is thrown out the window by the Qatari shytes.

And I find it incredible how people are wondering how the tournament ended up there.

FFS the Qatari invited all the African FAs for a little all expenses break in Qatar, showered them with gifts like Rolexes, gave them money to devleop their national games (the running joke was that a lot of swimming pools were build with that money).

Added to that the likes of France backed them.

It aint a coincidence that they own PSG.

They bought the WC.

Now it was always for sale and some of the countries were run by dictators like Mussolini, Videla long before Putin and the Qataris.

But at least those countries had major cities, stadia, major infrastructure, a long history in the game, major leagues, etc.

Qatar had fook all bar lots of sand, oh and ready cash.

This video describes the history of 'Kafala' the system that Qatar use for workers who built the World Cup stadiums

The system was actually invented/refined by a British bureaucrat in then British controlled Bahrain. This system spread to other neighbouring Middle Eastern Countries, including Qatar.

Really hope Giroud gets a few goals this World Cup. The locals wont be happy.

Lucky for them Alan Smith has retired.

I have news for you - the Qataris tend not to drink, some do for sure, but the vast majority do not.

The day it was awarded ahead of the USA back in 2010 made the whole thing look like the facade (I think you might mean farce) it is.

Qatar was easily the worst choice that day.

Australia would have been good fun. I can picture all the articles about the cities, clubs and Australia's small but interesting soccer history. Stuff to actually make the build up interesting.

Also real fans.

It has surprised me how people are so openly critical of Muslim culture.

Its far more a dilemma for the anti "woke" neanderthals.

Having to champion Muslims just to get to complain about gay people must really hurt their narrow little minds after they spending the last 20 years thinking all Muslims are terrorists and drug dealers.

A lot of stereotypes there.

Just looked up the forecast for next 2-3 weeks in Doha and it's not that bad. Daily highs between 23 and 29 degrees. Thats no worse than having WCs in Spain, Italy, USA, Mexico, Brazil etc. France and Germany could easily have those temperatures in June, too.

Its feels weird though having it in December - in the middle of domestic football season.

With the rest of it I say let's wait and see. Who knows, might be a great World Cup.

It should be because the standard is high worldwide now, there are few pushovers at least beyond the group stages. It will feel weird watching a WC in December initially they were going to play it in June. With hi tec air conditioning and all sorts. But they copped on the fans would have to walk around outside at some stage.

Apparently it is going to be a 'carbon neutral' WC so at least Greta Thunberg will be happy. I believe there is a stadium that is made out of cargo crates, which will be disassembled and recycled later.

They bribed their way to winning the bid....not too surprised that they might be trying to buy a win too...

The fans won't die of thirst if they can't drink a beer duing the match.

Probably a good thing in Englands case, beer turns their fans into even bigger scumbags than they are when sober.

How can ypu speak for all Qatari people? Do ypu know them? When you say the Qataris are happy, ypu mean the straight while male Qataris are happy. The rest aren't allowed to voice unhappiness.

It's 200 per tent and you know it. One person on their own still pays 200. Stop weaesling out.

I did say "exoected". But it's still a signifucant percentage of the population. It was 600k for Russia I'd imagine they'd want to at least match that.

Again, take of the blinkers.