World Cup General Discussion Thread - 2030 The Jokes On You

Hahaha, FIFA deserve everything they get for this.

 

Have they said how many tickets they've sold to the games?

 

Late change: Women without head coverings will be stoned and gays will be thrown from high buildings. Sorry for any inconvenience.

 

When Qatar get d1cked by Ecuador I predict that football will be banned in Qatar.

 

FIFA said almost 3m tickets had been sold up to mid-October, comparable to previous World Cups.

 

Hahaha! ******* brilliant, I’m starting to like Qatar, right bunch of banter merchants. I bet Elon Musk is secretly behind this whole thing.

 

So they're not selling Budweiser to the average fans in the stadiums now?
Hat's off to Qatar. Saved a lot of people from drinking that utter sh*t.

 

But still allowed to sell Bud Zero.

Now THAT would be desperation if someone actually wanted to drink that.

 

Exactly. They could leave me in the desert in sweltering heat for a few days and I’d turn down the opportunity to escape if the only offer was to drink that piss.

 

I’m always slightly dubious about these things, I don’t doubt Qatar have actually banned the sale of Budweiser, but the amount of publicity generated for Budweiser by them doing it is probably greater than what they would’ve got anyway.

 

Bloody brilliant.

 

A great series to view, explains so much and shows how deep and how far away from football this all goes.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ve-daily-allowance-cancelled?CMP=share_btn_tw

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Is Elon Musk running the World Cup this year?

 

Sounds promising. Of that 3m, wonder who the 2.8m “bought” by the Qatari state will be given to ? Expect to see lots of Ecuadorean players families in the crowd, decked out in the Qatari kit, cheering on their Qatari heroes.

 

The most obviously corrupt FIFA World Cup since... the last one.

This is a good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...off-and-qatar-is-not-in-any-mood-to-apologise

 

Infantino is a smart man. Deflect the fact that FIFA were lied to by the hosts as part of the bid, were bribed by officials and do what all ‘leaders’ do these days and make it into a culture war against Qatar as a nation and the Muslim world in general.

I almost don’t blame FIFA, I blame the associations that still remain members of the group. England should have been the first out the door but there’s far too much money involved for every aspect of the side - from the old farts down to the players, that they’d never do it.

I’m sure Southgate will be trotted out to make some claim ‘that you can’t change it from the outside’ despite the fact that we’ve not changed anything in the group ever and despite having the most popular brand of football in the world and some of the best stadiums, we’ll probably end up close to 100 years before we host the World Cup again. Not weird at all.

So Infantino is right about the hypocrisy, just not in the way he means.

 

I'm not so sure Infantino is a smart man. At least not as smart as he thinks he is. He's a stooge, a tool, so blinkered by his own pursuit of money and what he perceives to be power and status that he doesn't realise he's being pulled round on a lead by those who seek to use football as the next phase in a geo-political and cultural conflict.

The fact that there's now a debate about whether certain values are 'right' or not is exactly what Qatar and others want. Same as the Russia World Cup was a key event in deflecting attention from Putin's 20-year slowly-slowly build-up to where we are now, football has consistently allowed itself to be used as a pawn while kidding itself it can be an agent of change.

The way Qatar built the stadia is absolutely abhorrent. There's a blood stain on every seat. FIFA is complicit in that, as is every federation, as are we all, in a way. Thing is, it's done now and the genie won't go back in the bottle. Qatar didn't just win the World Cup bid overnight, it's been 15+ years in the making. I went to the Tour of Qatar cycling event in 2006 – it was a very strange week in a half-built country – and remember them saying they wanted to hold the Olympics or World Cup one day and, of course, we shook our heads and thought it was very unlikely. I remember asking someone why they wanted to host international sporting events, especially one as niche as cycling, and I was told it was to boost Qatari tourism, 'join' the world, put Qatar on the map, modernise, diversify away from gas (yeah, right!).

Cycling, tennis, golf, swimming, F1 and many other sports have been a huge part of this process. And, as the sports governing bodies have become greedier and greedier, charging ever more for hosting rights it's become easier to make the case for holding events in places where there are serious human rights issues.

Sport is deeply, deeply political (just google 'Bahrain 13' and ask yourself why the triathlon team Brownlee joined was called Bahrain 13) and the people who know and use sport love nothing more than when people say: "Keep politics out of sport," or, as Piers Morgan did this week, indulging in a long list of whataboutery by suggesting that if you don't hold the World Cup in Qatar you can't hold it anywhere.

 

That's OK then. It's respecting Qatari traditions.

 

Say what you want about this World Cup, at least the Qataris now have some cracking stadiums for stoning women in.

 

Aha.
I knew it made sense.
Cheers

 

Infantino says it’s the West that’s the problem, not Qatar:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63687412

Hopefully the big Western brands that prop up FIFA will start rethinking their ad spends.

 

Pity. This would have been a useful precedent. I'd quite like to be paid for watching Watford, to give the matches atmosphere for tellywatchers. Mind you, us in the UGT would need to be paid double for the inconvenience.

 

FIFA's partners – Adidas, Coca-Cola, Wanda Group, Hyundai-Kia, Qatar Airways, Qatar Energy and VISA.

Mmm. Not holding my breath for a sudden attack of morality. The T-Rex, Diplodocus and Stegosauras of late stage capitalist economics.

 

Don't you just hate being right?

Infantino proving what an utter chump he is.

 

I misread this as " incontinence"!

It's going terribly well so far isn't it?!

"Nobody on the road.
Nobody on the beach".

 

Infantino has lived in Qatar for over a year and his kids go to school there, something he and Fifa initially tried to hide. He may not have overseen the bid but he’s as much if not more in their pocket as his predecessors.

 

"A Dead-head sticker on a Cadillac "

 

When is it ? It must be coming up soon. This side of Xmas wasn't it ? Surprised it's not been mentioned in the media.

 

I think he's a man in the paid pocket of Qatar. Certainly not smart in any way.

 

The rest of the paragraph describes what I mean by smart in relation to him and how that actually links to what you describe. In isolation, the comment is relatively meaningless.