FIFA World Cup in Qatar

[dan08]

Agreed. After this tournament can we not just put it in a place that actually likes the game, and has that passion.

Qatar is simply a dumb option.

Didn't it come down to USA or Qatar ?? USA would of been a good option, they already have stadiums built and would help the game grow over there.

Only small problem is how big America is, and traveling would/could be a nightmare.

From New York to West Coast its about 5 hours air travel, so I guess its not that bad.

Whilst I think USA did bid, I think it was more a case of Australia or Qatar.

And Australia has most of the grounds and infrastructure in place. Not to mention they already had a record of hosting a big multinational sporting event recently. Well more recently than Qatar

Thing is most football fans are either in South America or Europe and the matches would be in the middle of the night or early in the morning.

[yuppie]

No different to when Japan and Korea have hosted the world cup

[mikesiva]

America had it in 1994. Too soon for another one, I guess?

When is it our turn? A couple of brown envelopes here and there, and we could be in the semi's (see Korea).

"Qatar will be cleared of corruption during the 2022 World Cup bidding process when a Fifa report is published on Thursday, BBC Sport has learned. It was alleged that Qatar won the staging rights after Fifa officials were paid £3m to support its bid. However, Fifa's independent ethics adjudicator, Hans Joachim Eckert, is not expected to recommend a revote."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30031405

"After studying Garcia's findings, Eckert, a German judge, produced a 42-page summary, which will be published on Thursday at 09:00 GMT. The report has not only cleared Qatar, but is believed to admonish the English Football Association for its behaviour during the bidding process. The FA comes under fire for its relationship with former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned in 2011, having been suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations."

[yuppie]

America had it in 1994. Too soon for another one, I guess?

When is it our turn? A couple of brown envelopes here and there, and we could be in the semi's (see Korea).

"Qatar will be cleared of corruption during the 2022 World Cup bidding process when a Fifa report is published on Thursday, BBC Sport has learned. It was alleged that Qatar won the staging rights after Fifa officials were paid £3m to support its bid. However, Fifa's independent ethics adjudicator, Hans Joachim Eckert, is not expected to recommend a revote."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30031405

"After studying Garcia's findings, Eckert, a German judge, produced a 42-page summary, which will be published on Thursday at 09:00 GMT. The report has not only cleared Qatar, but is believed to admonish the English Football Association for its behaviour during the bidding process. The FA comes under fire for its relationship with former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned in 2011, having been suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations."

Fifa really do not like the FA. Whilst migrant workers are still pretty much being treated as slaves in Qatar. How many have died now building the stadiums?

[Aidan11]

I guess we are now seen by FIFA as sore losers.

[yuppie]

I guess we are now seen by FIFA as sore losers.

Indeed.

[budgetmeansbudget]

So the conclusion at the end of this supposedly unbiased enquiry is that FIFA is clean and transparent and the FA is corrupt. Ummm.

[Aidan11]

The only way to clean up world football is for enough associations to form a breakaway union.

[budgetmeansbudget]

The only way to clean up world football is for enough associations to form a breakaway union.

Two world cups?

[Aidan11]

The only way to clean up world football is for enough associations to form a breakaway union.

Two world cups?

Aye - a European-only version

[budgetmeansbudget]

The only way to clean up world football is for enough associations to form a breakaway union.

Two world cups?

Aye - a European-only version

We could have a World Cup with just us in it............... we still wouldn't win it.

[budgetmeansbudget]

The man who conducted the Fifa inquiry has come out and said that Fifa have misrepresented many of the facts and conclusions which came out of it. Brilliant, they've corrupted the results of the corruption inquiry.

[sussexpob]

This is brilliant, isn't it? The people who tried to complain of corruption are actually the ones corrupt, Qatar are not corrupt and won on the merits of their ability to host a tournament which, once the actual logistics were looked into in the simplest of details, is now having to be moved to another time because it wasn't that suitable to host it.....

Russia have nothing to hide, but destroyed all the documents and computers that the bid team used....

England buttered up Jack Warner?? The same jack warner who said some rather remarkable things about England in the past?

The independent report was never released, was re-written by an inside man, and published as the main findings while the man who wrote its source material turns round and says "hang on"?

What next? Blatter to settle this on an internal vote?

Press 1 if you think we are corrupt
Press 2 if you would like to say no.... this option comes with a 300k compliance bonus

[Aidan11]

Blatter will tell everyone to shake hands and that will solve everything.

[Alviro Patterson]

Blatter will tell everyone to shake hands and that will solve everything.

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