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Drew
Sorry but the clubs control the Premier League so it's pretty much the same thing. I suspect that Barca and Real have a lot of influence over the Spanish league.
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Blatter again.....
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Sorry but the clubs control the Premier League so it's pretty much the same thing. I suspect that Barca and Real have a lot of influence over the Spanish league.
Pavilionaire
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What sort of world do these FIFA officials live in that they could ever have thought Qatar would work?
Because £££
Corrected your post for you !
cloud
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I guess they could have the matches during the night, like they do with the Formula one. But it's still a shambles. And probably too late for him to pay back all the bribes.
Pavilionaire
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Hotel rooms. There are currently 9,000 in the country. Their bid said they'd have 84,000 ready. So what happens to all of these hotels after the tournament? Or is their tourist industry going to increase tenfold overnight?
cloud
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Unlikely to grow that much in a teetotal country. What happens when Blatter fancies a nice cold beer? No doubt he's not thought that one through either.
Stevie Boy
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the only thing he was thinking of is how big his brown envolope would be
Pavilionaire
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Australia was such a no-brainer, it ticks every box, the only explanation for the choice of Qatar has to be corruption.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Blatter is not German, he's Swiss.
The Birdman
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What a load of tossers in charge of the World Cup we should a 6 regional mini world cups with 6 or 12 teams then play a world league home and away so home fans could support their teams and it would be cheaper to run . Well Blatter not the only person with silly idea's. 
withdeanwombat
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The pressure to provide more is in tents.
father_and_son
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Qatar's bid should only have been accepted if they had enough enclosed (air conditioned) stadia to play the tournament in. It's not like their weather is a surprise, its been f**king hot there for centuries!
Oh no... what am I thinking, the country which bribes the most gets the tournament! how silly of me!
Oh no... what am I thinking, the country which bribes the most gets the tournament! how silly of me!
withdeanwombat
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Blatter is right.............in saying that non Europeans are also football fanatics . But it's European football they are fanatical about. Still, it'll be great to be watching Botswana v North Korea when Albion SHOULD have been at home to Arsenal (allowing for developments over time.)
Knotty
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Surely at least one member of the committee that decided this questioned the heat in Qatar in Summer? I'd love to know what the comments to that were!
He has now admitted it was a mistake, but it's not a mistake that has been realised after some new evidence has come to light ...believe it or not, Sepp, Summer in Qatar has always been that hot!
His admission to the mistake is, in itself, an admission of total and incomprehensible incompetence. It is also an insult to the football-loving world.
He has now admitted it was a mistake, but it's not a mistake that has been realised after some new evidence has come to light ...believe it or not, Sepp, Summer in Qatar has always been that hot!
His admission to the mistake is, in itself, an admission of total and incomprehensible incompetence. It is also an insult to the football-loving world.
casbom
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So if it still goes ahead in Qatar in Winter, and the Premier League shuts down for those 8 - 10 weeks, the way round it would be to have more mid week games as they have capacity for that surely?
However what would the other Leagues do as they don't have the capactiy, carry on playing through the World Cup?
However what would the other Leagues do as they don't have the capactiy, carry on playing through the World Cup?
Gritt23
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All this nonsense about slating the European Leagues for not being flexible, is just a ridiculous smokescreen to hide the embarrassing truth.
For all the mountains of documents submitted, and hours of presentations, and visits by FIFA delegates to check the minute detail of every potential host country, to then decide to award it to a country without considering their climate just shows that all anyone voting considers is what is in the bid for them personally.
It is so crocked that you can't have a discussion on how they could possibly have come to this decision. Was their bid saying it would be hosted in the winter, and therefore a consideration when it went to the vote? Clearly not. So, their proposal WAS a summer tournament when the vote was taken, and was therefore done so with any consideration of the climate. You can't get away from the fact that this is the most blatant carve-up.
No matter how much Blatter tries to make it sound like the only problem here is the European Leagues being inflexible, everyone knows the real issue here.
I just hope this becomes such a farce that it does force change at FIFA. Not just a bit of lip-service to change, with the odd amendment to how they vote, blah, blah blah. But full on, rip it up, sack them all, and start again, change. It could only happen if everything was about to disintegrate, but if Qatar 2022 is facing a boycott with the major European teams/leagues refusing to release their players, or sign up to the dramatic changes to their League programmes that would be necessary .... then it could happen.
Once upon a time, UEFA and FIFA were treading VERY carefully around the major clubs fearing the dreaded European Super League being set up by the clubs. That's how the Champions League became the over-blown tournament it is today, to appease them all. What makes them think that old idea won't get revisited. They may even thrown in an International Tournament themselves, of Premiership vs La Liga vs Bundasliga vs Serie A etc ..... the clubs only have to look at the potential income streams and have the right push. This could be it.
For all the mountains of documents submitted, and hours of presentations, and visits by FIFA delegates to check the minute detail of every potential host country, to then decide to award it to a country without considering their climate just shows that all anyone voting considers is what is in the bid for them personally.
It is so crocked that you can't have a discussion on how they could possibly have come to this decision. Was their bid saying it would be hosted in the winter, and therefore a consideration when it went to the vote? Clearly not. So, their proposal WAS a summer tournament when the vote was taken, and was therefore done so with any consideration of the climate. You can't get away from the fact that this is the most blatant carve-up.
No matter how much Blatter tries to make it sound like the only problem here is the European Leagues being inflexible, everyone knows the real issue here.
I just hope this becomes such a farce that it does force change at FIFA. Not just a bit of lip-service to change, with the odd amendment to how they vote, blah, blah blah. But full on, rip it up, sack them all, and start again, change. It could only happen if everything was about to disintegrate, but if Qatar 2022 is facing a boycott with the major European teams/leagues refusing to release their players, or sign up to the dramatic changes to their League programmes that would be necessary .... then it could happen.
Once upon a time, UEFA and FIFA were treading VERY carefully around the major clubs fearing the dreaded European Super League being set up by the clubs. That's how the Champions League became the over-blown tournament it is today, to appease them all. What makes them think that old idea won't get revisited. They may even thrown in an International Tournament themselves, of Premiership vs La Liga vs Bundasliga vs Serie A etc ..... the clubs only have to look at the potential income streams and have the right push. This could be it.
Yoda
English & European
All very well, but what about those clubs involved in European competitions? Most of those spare midweeks they have would already be used for these matches.
Gritt23
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It won't be more midweek games, and nor will the World Cup be in the middle of the 2022-23 season. I'm sure the proposal that I read involved shifting the seasons either side as well, so that the 2022 season would run Feb-Nov.
It's madness. And what if we go through ALL the disruption of hacking around with the schedules for 3 seasons, only to miss out on qualification.
Ludicrous, it just can't happen.