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Post by thebin on Mar 18, 2014 15:43:03 GMT -5
Enjoy this World Cup. Brazil is not without problems to be sure, but it is a deserving country for many obvious reasons. I always get a bit depressed when I am reminded about the locale of the next two Cups though. Fifa awarding the 2022 World Cup to a tiny criminal state with less football culture and history than the US and with the climate of Venus and midevil laws on homosexuality and who flagrantly bought votes was a massive disgrace. For some reason nobody has much noticed or cared. I mean even by FIfa standards this was just a joke. This after another grandstanding turn for Russia in 4 years time. Gross. blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100264119/qatar-world-cup-investigation-if-fifa-isnt-corrupt-then-its-incredibly-stupid/
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Post by thebin on Mar 18, 2014 16:01:54 GMT -5
Another good one.... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10704458/Qatar-World-Cup-2022-investigation-Surprised-that-Jack-Warner-appears-to-have-been-paid-1.2m-Not-a-chance.html.....When Blatter made his announcement, the entire football world (except that part of it controlled by Warner and his family) despaired. Qatar? Short of awarding the tournament to Greenland and suggesting it be played mid-winter, it was hard to think of a less appropriate venue to stage a World Cup. Here was a place consisting of nothing more than a vast expanse of sand, a place with no footballing heritage, previously agnostic to the game’s charms, planning to host a sporting competition in stadiums as yet unbuilt in territory as yet barely populated. A place, moreover, subject to the kind of laws which suggested that if visitors were gay or liked a drink or, if female, preferred not to walk around in a shroud, they were not to be welcome. What made it even more bizarre a decision is that Fifa had latterly cast itself as an international force for development, choosing to hold its competition in countries like South Africa, Brazil and Russia with the claim that its presence would kick start infrastructure projects of lasting benefit to the population. Suddenly to gift the competition to an oil-rich gulf state utterly undermined such a claim. So ridiculous was it, ever since the decision was made, Fifa has been obliged to break its own rules to defend and protect it. In order to differentiate the World Cup from a single city event like the Olympics, Fifa has previously insisted that no one centre in a host nation can have more than three stadiums. Now apparently, since Qatar only has one city, that rule no longer obtains........
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