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This surely needs to be the thing that causes some top nations to tell FIFA to fuck off?  Absolutely cannot be allowed to happen.

not when these nations are getting bribed as much as the confederations and FIFA. They're all corrupt top to bottom and its beyond all hope of redeeming the organisation. The really sad thing is the ones cleanest in all of this are the bloody clubs and thats mostly because they would like to kill international football full stop not that they need to do much, FIFA and UEFA seems to be doing a fair job of doing it on their own.

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Can't imagine how a WC can possibly happen in November-December. What are the Premier League going to do, just cancel all their matches?

 

It'll be a great chance for us to win some games

 

Didn't even think of that. Most of our dudes won't be off on duty while most of Man U/Chelsea/Arsenal type squads will be away. Bonus.

 

Wor Jack's time to shine.

 

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The domestic schedule rejigging doesn't bother me half as much as the human rights issues in Russia/Qatar, and the domestic schedule rejigging is really, really, REALLY daft.

 

You say that as if the World Cup hasn't previously been awarded to fascist Italy in 1934, the Argentinian military junta in 78 and Colombia in 86 a country riddled with internal corruption and a full scale guerilla drug war. Both South Africa and Brazil arguably have societal problems that give Russia a run for their money and both are vastly more dangerous countries for visitors than either Qatar or Russia.

 

FIFA don't really give a shite, basically. Especially not when there is dollar to be pocketed.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup#Venues

 

This really shows how fucking ridiculous it is btw. All but one of the stadiums in the greater Doha area :lol:

 

The other one at the top:

 

Ash-Shamal (Arabic: الشمال‎) is a municipality in the state of Qatar. Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal and it is considered to be one of the major cities in Qatar.[2] The name means "City of the north" - although the population is barely over 5,000. Ash Shamal will be home to the proposed 45,330-seat Al-Shamal Stadium, one of 12 venues used in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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The domestic schedule rejigging doesn't bother me half as much as the human rights issues in Russia/Qatar, and the domestic schedule rejigging is really, really, REALLY daft.

 

You say that as if the World Cup hasn't previously been awarded to fascist Italy in 1934, the Argentinian military junta in 78 and Colombia in 86 a country riddled with internal corruption and a full scale guerilla drug war. Both South Africa and Brazil arguably have societal problems that give Russia a run for their money and both are vastly more dangerous countries for visitors than either Qatar or Russia.

 

FIFA don't really give a shite, basically. Especially not when there is dollar to be pocketed.

 

Most of those were before my time unsurprisingly :lol: South Africa/Brazil were controversial in so far as that there were policital/economic consequences of hosting them there and issues about profit distribution etc, but nothing which amounted to a serious human rights breach (as far as I know, happy to be corrected on this).

 

Conversely, the upcoming two are absolutely appalling. You couldn't script two regimes more diabolical.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup#Venues

 

This really shows how f***ing ridiculous it is btw. All but one of the stadiums in the greater Doha area :lol:

 

The other one at the top:

 

Ash-Shamal (Arabic: الشمال‎) is a municipality in the state of Qatar. Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal and it is considered to be one of the major cities in Qatar.[2] The name means "City of the north" - although the population is barely over 5,000. Ash Shamal will be home to the proposed 45,330-seat Al-Shamal Stadium, one of 12 venues used in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

 

Not to mention the final being in a town that doesn't actually exist.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup#Venues

 

This really shows how f***ing ridiculous it is btw. All but one of the stadiums in the greater Doha area :lol:

 

The other one at the top:

 

Ash-Shamal (Arabic: الشمال‎) is a municipality in the state of Qatar. Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal and it is considered to be one of the major cities in Qatar.[2] The name means "City of the north" - although the population is barely over 5,000. Ash Shamal will be home to the proposed 45,330-seat Al-Shamal Stadium, one of 12 venues used in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

 

Not to mention the final being in a town that doesn't actually exist.

 

Unreal hustle tbf to them

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"We will look at the knock-on effects of the decision and how it will affect Scottish football," he said. "Clearly there will be fixture challenges for leagues across the world.

 

Just too much :lol: right there. Sit down Scotland, there's nothing for you to see here.

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Very, very unfortunate that they didn't know about it being a bit warm in Qatar during the summer before they gave them the World Cup...

 

I'm sure I could have a temporary lapse of "amnesia" for a few million quid too

 

It's so obvious that they've been bribed it's unreal. There's nothing they can use to defend themselves with either, since there are 0 reasons to give the WC to fucking Qatar ffs

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