Should the World Cup be held in Qatar in 2022?
Qatar is hosting the football World Cup in 2022 but ever since it was awarded the prestigious event there has been controversy surrounding the decision.
Many have said that the summer temperatures in Qatar which can easy exceed 40°C degrees are far to hot to play in and may endanger players lives. The organisers have said they are building football stadiums that will have air conditioning and keep the temperatures a lot lower.
Apparently FIFA ignored serious concerns over the heat in Qatar, in handing the World Cup to the tiny Middle East country in December 2010.
Now some of the main members of FIFA have met in Doha, Qatar to discuss switching the tournament to November when the temperatures are lower at about 25ºC which is still hot but cooler than summer. Football bosses in the UK bitterly oppose the World Cup being held in November as it will disrupt the Premier League , FA cup games and League and cup competitions in Scotland. The final could be as late as 23rd December.
What are your views? What do you think about the controversial decision to hold the World Cup in Qatar in the first place? Should the decision be reversed? Which country would make a better host?
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There are lots of lovely designs and you can have any colour as long as it's BLACK - thanks Henry Ford!!!!!!
The religious police will be happy to take you to a little room if you breach the female dress code, that's if they haven't decided just to whack you with their sticks.
And, make sure you stand at the back of a lift. That's so you don't allow a man to look at your derriere! True!!!
Order your food before prayer times or you'll have to wait until it's over!
Finally, if it's Ramadan during the world cup you won't be allowed to eat or drink in public, which includes NO sucking on ice cubes at the hotel swimming pool bar, if it's open for use at all.
Have fun!
Alcohol - NIL
Water - 1
And, in case any footie fans are thinking of trying to beat the system. you won't be able to buy alcohol at the airport and your bags will be scanned on arrival to look for 'liquids'!
money it should have never being in first place it was a con,
Could this be a moment in time to bring the area some good news? The youth of the Middle East need some inspiration, how would it look if the World Cup was taken back?
Corruption in one , Civil Rights and Hypocrisy in the other.
As someone has said Qatar has no history of being a Soccer nation, but they have the money and money talks in FIFA.
And Putin will turn a deaf ear to anyone no matter what other nation think.
With those allegations now in play, the negatives re human rights, cheap imported labour, climate, the absence of a football culture & history are all even more obvious reasons for a rethink.
Corruption is corruption, wherever and by whomever it may be practised. If Blatter refuses to go, then Uefa and British football authorities should abandon Fifa and set up a new international organisation.
In any event and given the level of hubris over Qatar and Russia too, it would be sensible to rerun the bidding competition for these two events, no matter what rhetoric is thrown at us by Putin and other interested parties. No comment to offer on where they should be played.
Whilst I loathe people using football matches as an excuse to drink to excess Qatar is a DRY country.
There will be absolutely ZERO access to alcohol and anyone attempting to break this law by bringing it in faces very stiff penalties including public flogging and prison. Alcohol won't be sold at UK duty free shops if you hold a boarding card to a dry Country, nor from aircraft duty free bars.
Public eating and drinking aren't allowed either.
Dress code is strict, so there will be no tolerance of shorts and tee shirts - and heaven forbid if a woman dresses inappropriately.
No, Qatar is wrong wrong wrong!
"Sepp Blatter says ahead of election 'you can’t ask everyone to behave ethically just like that'"
YES YOU CAN!
Ridiculous
Add to that the intense heat, that players from north European countries will never have experienced, the draconian penalties for any fan who does something silly while under the influence of alcohol, morality police patrols who pounce on any westerners in short skirts, holding hands or snogging in public and you have every reason to stay away.
However the apparent corruptness of the selection method is to me too real and needs to be resolved before any more decisions are made for future events.
Why should a global sport be disrupted to accommodate an unsuitable climate. It would be the same as saying "Ooooo let's have the ski world championships on Box Hill in Surrey. Oh yes, we may need to build a few more mountains there and create a load of snow, but hey, that's fine we just want to be inclusive."
As for the heat, to be fair the stadiums are going to be air conditioned and what about the Mexico & USA & Brazilian World cups, they where all played in around 40 degree temperatures.
Plus, Qatar is 3 hours ahead of us time wise. So for the evening games, if we ask nicely, the Government might extend the opening hours of the pubs!
Sept Blatter and his unaccountable cronies should be made to sit outside in the heat for three hours without air-con in the middle of summer in Qatar to experience the uncomfortable and potentially life threatening conditions that the fans would have to face if the tournament was held in the summer as FIFA originally planned.
To then have to backtrack and move the tournament to November causing massive upheaval for all of the domestic competitions is ridiculous and shows them to be totally idiotic and incompetent.
Blatter should be forcibly removed and the vote should be carried out again in a transparent way so the tournament can be held in a country that actually meets the tournament requirements.
It is staggering that they are being allowed to get away with this and that Blatter will likely be elected again for yet another term in office.