To be honest, by far the most important thing here is the influence that the onset of World War Three might have on whether I decide to get one of those half season tickets. Not sure I'll bother now, what with the impending apocalypse, collapse of western civilisation and that. And the pies are...
Hmm, I'm not convinced I'm afraid. Unless this rumour is about natgas rather than oil, of which Qatar has a lot and which Russia supplies heavily into Europe.
Why would you need a pipeline when hundreds of vast ships are bringing oil from the Middle East to Europe and elsewhere every day, whether Putin likes it or not?