I DO think he was being sarcastic as if the thought that it MIGHT be hot in Qatar had never occurred to FIFA when the bidding process took place.
PS - And I hope, winter or summer, that Israel qualify!
Quality. I really wish you'd posted more than a few hundred times in ten years.
This is one of the few, indeed possibly the only, time I've been grateful that it's the clubs that are powerful now rather than national associations (certainly in Europe). They could well be the ones to tell...