Qatar World Cup

Afraid not, being critical of FIFA or Qatar is nothing new, it’s when one brings the US, ,Saudi, Yemen along as further references coupled with four or five posts in a row that leads one to believe there is more ‘dog whistling than on ‘One Man and his Dog’

Ronaldo cheating again.

I'd take up the US and Yemen references with Fandymo who introduced them.

And how generous of you to continue to entertainingly continue to use 'dog-whistling' inappropriately. Tp paraphrase the Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Well it was the wrong climate because they had to actually move it to the winter which is total nonsense.

Why should Qatar want to build a football profile. They don't give to shitts about football never have and never will. So why even try let them build a profile that they have zero interest in carrying on going forward. When the world cup is gone Qatar will probably bull doze the stadiums.

Small countries do host sporting events but a country the size of Qatar should never be hosting the world's largest sporting event and think even you know that. You strike me as someone who love's to argue. Well argue with yourself.

Uefa should have pulled the European teams out from the start. I think most right minded person knows this is a farce. Qatar bought the world cup. I'm watching it but you actually know like most it should not be there. If you don't i think you need to give your head a wobble and have a lie down.

Sorry, what's your problem? You said earlier it's something you think people should care about and protest, and we're agreed on that. All I wanted to know was why, when people do claim to care, other people arbitrarily decide they're just virtue signalling or they didn't care soon enough. What does that achieve? I appreciate you taking the time away from your own protests to not bother answering my question. Good luck.

War in Ukraine, cost of living crisis, climate catastrophe, and you know that all Ronaldo cares about are his records, reputation, money and looks. The man defines obnoxious narcissism. The Donald Trump of football - but, unfortunately, with much more talent.

People in Qatar love football, it is pretty much their number 1 sport. But the thing is, they are fairly useless at it and always have been. They have no history of being a sporting nation. Maybe if flying an eagle around the desert is a sport, they can win gold at the olympics.

Could have been 3 or 4.

Makes the England win even more impressive.

Lol. They can take Qatar Airways one of the best airlines in the world. Takeoff from Doha, circle round the country and back down again, total flight time 30mins.

A historical one! And another unexpected result, I'll stop counting.

Bale too, hurrah for that.

I wonder what wud have happened if the queen had lived another month or 2 and died now during or at start of this World Cup?? I think it would have to keep going as per schedule. Would England keep playing?? I think they would. Hmmmm.

There is a cracking story on the athletic focussed on them basically trying to buy sports people, footballers etc (including Ailton and a few other Brazilians) FIFA had to change the rules...but I still think very few of the Qatar team are Qatari citizens.

One really interesting non football one is a formerly Kenyan runner...a lot of money involved unsurprisingly.

list of players not born in country they play for, it doesn't mention if they have a connection to the country they play for though I guess most do (FIFA rules etc). Most can be guessed by their surnames.

I can't help finding this world cup utterly intriguing. And I prefer it not being in summer. Watching soccer games in summer always felt like a waste of valuable summer time.

McKinney would do well in Croke Park.

Refs have enough to worry about apart from timekeeping. Make football a normal sport by having a clock that everyone can watch.

Hard to judge Iran. They came in with many other worries on their backs that other teams don’t have and they looked a lot better against Wales.

Lets go Australia