Blatter admits Russia 2018 vote was fixed

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 11 hours, 33 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted on 30/10/15
I agree about pervious bids being iffy, especially Germany's.

At least Russia has a football culture, most peoples' bugbear is Qatar as a choice.
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There is a football culture in Qatar, they also have a lot of academies

Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football

I like how they like to pretend it does
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No one knows where Qatar is or how to get there, so what's the issue.

comment by Globaled (U7198)
posted 10 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 11 hours, 33 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted on 30/10/15
I agree about pervious bids being iffy, especially Germany's.

At least Russia has a football culture, most peoples' bugbear is Qatar as a choice.
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There is a football culture in Qatar, they also have a lot of academies

Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football

I like how they like to pretend it does
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No one knows where Qatar is or how to get there, so what's the issue.
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That helps immensely

Qatar has 200k citizens, 80% of the population are foreign workers. There's no culture let along football culture.

There are 2 million people in Qatar

They have a culture, people that have been there know that.

Any sensible person would know that.

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted on 30/10/15
I agree about pervious bids being iffy, especially Germany's.

At least Russia has a football culture, most peoples' bugbear is Qatar as a choice.
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There is a football culture in Qatar, they also have a lot of academies

Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football

I like how they like to pretend it does
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"Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football"

Really, you're basing this on what?

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 3 minutes ago
There are 2 million people in Qatar

They have a culture, people that have been there know that.

Any sensible person would know that.
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Only 200k citizens though... the rest are foreign workers like the people building the stadiums treated like slaves. Qatar citizens are the richest people on earth, heavily subsidised by the government and foreigners are brought in to do the dirty work. It could have been in a country where it leaves a proper legacy, 2022 will just be a vanity project for a gas rich fake desert.

comment by CoutinhosHappyFeet (U18971)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted on 30/10/15
I agree about pervious bids being iffy, especially Germany's.

At least Russia has a football culture, most peoples' bugbear is Qatar as a choice.
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There is a football culture in Qatar, they also have a lot of academies

Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football

I like how they like to pretend it does
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"Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football"

Really, you're basing this on what?

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Their comments

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by CoutinhosHappyFeet (U18971)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted on 30/10/15
I agree about pervious bids being iffy, especially Germany's.

At least Russia has a football culture, most peoples' bugbear is Qatar as a choice.
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There is a football culture in Qatar, they also have a lot of academies

Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football

I like how they like to pretend it does
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"Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football"

Really, you're basing this on what?

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Their comments
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For me personally it's the feeling that Qatar jumped the queue. There are countries that have competed at numerous World Cups but never had the chance to host, such as Portugal and Australia.

Qatar is a relative new boy on the block and you get the impression the countries wealth had a huge say in hosting in 2022.

Of course the wealth did. That being said, I would prefer a world cup there than in Russia

"Truth be told, most people's issues with Qatar have nothing to do with football"
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That's only because the reasons Qatar were awarded the tournament in the first place had nothing to do with football.

Corruption has nothing to do with football.

That's precisely the point.