Qatar World Cup Confirmed For Winter

Sensible decision. Alot won't like it though.

 

Daftest idea ever having cup there!

On bright side tho there wint be flares thrown about in Qatar stadiums... It'll be buckets of money getting chucked about by Sheiks!

 

That'll be the start of a Premier League winter break so the top teams can play lucrative friendlies in UAE over Christmas...

 

Not really. It's supposed to be a world cup and so we have to understand that not every country has a football season during the same months we do in Europe. It should put attendances up as well because instead of watching football during the cold/dark pre xmas period when money is tight, it should be extended into June when better weather will make fair weather supporters more likely to go. Also those who want some pre xmas sun can pop to Qatar and fill their football quota at same time. It will be cooler too so the standard of football won't be as affected as it would be played in the summer.

 

And the end of Premier club's participation in the League Cup to accomodate it (that's if they haven't stopped participating before then any way).

 

They and all the other competitors put forward their case for a Summer World Cup in 2022. If they're incapable of now delivering what they claimed & advocated, then they should lose the right to stage it. Qatar & FIFA have moved the goalposts in the most underhand way on their argument for the selection being made after the decision was made. Australia, for example, put forward their willingness to stage a Summer World Cup in 2022 by sticking to FIFA's own stipulations set out for potential hosts. They, and others, had every right to assume all potential hosts were being judged exactly the same.
For me, the selection of Qatar had nothing to do with football or altruistic reasons.

 

By the time 2022 comes round I think I'll be well & truly fed up with football and so won't really care.

 

I'll be fed up by that time tonight.

 

It's not fun anymore.

 

I don't have a problem with switching this to winter, what I do have a problem with, is handing the competition to Qatar in the first place.

It's just plain and simple stupid.

I know it's a World Cup, so theoretically should be played on a world stage. But Qatar clearly has so many negatives, as a host country ie. climate (FIFA having to change timing for the first time in their history, to accommodate it), travel accessibility, costs for fans, stadia (although I'm sure they will be ready), security, etc.

It's a bit like having the Winter Olympics in Death Valley Arizona.......OK, there's no snow there, but hey, we can fix a machine up and get some snow there, build a few spectator arenas, build a short-term airport for visitors, etc.

FIFA are bent.

FIFA are stupid.

FIFA make me sick.

 

Baffled, football is fecked, but probably won't be watching it anyway by that time. If there are any clubs left to pick a team from.

Edit: Now the clowns are saying that no decision has been made. I think FIFA should be put in charge of the NHS, the banks and HS2, oh and the benefit and taxation systems. In fact, why not just let them run the world?

 

Agree 100%. The decision to hand it to Qatar was based on money and money alone. FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations in the world.

I've often thought that a breakaway governing body should be formed and leave them to stew in their own corrupt mess. The problem is, I am judging that scenario on western standards of behaviour and, for it to be a world based governing body, the breakaway would need the support of the majority of other countries. But half the affiliated countries in FIFA are likely to be quite happy with the corrupt way in which FIFA does business because their own economy is based on the same kind of corruption.

 

No decision made yet, according to BBC website anyway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25653594

 

this will be a **** world cup possibly even worse than 2010

 

What a fiasco. Plays into The Premiership big teams' hands though. They will thereafter demand a winter break, possibly even before the Qatar World Cup, where they can let their overworked players rest...by flying to the middle east and playing in a lucrative tournament. They'll demand that Premiership teams pull out of the League Cup, but of course we couldn't expect any reduction in Champions League or Europa League games. They'll then look at whether a smaller Premiership would help with the World Cup, say a league of 16, so they don't have to go to places like Blackpool or Hull any more. Hey, whilst we're at it, why don't we then have a second tier of the Premiership, with another 16 teams. That way we can prevent our favourites like Southampton, QPR, Norwich and Forest from having to slum it at Hartlepool any more. Talking of Hartlepool, wouldn't they benefit from a regional league at that level, and surely they'd benefit from linking up with a big local rival like Newcastle. Hey and Manchester United could use Bury as their reserves, and Arsenal could use Barnet and so forth.

So by 2022 we have:

Two 16 team Premiership divisions with no relegation from Premiership 2.
No League Cup as we know it today.
Regional leagues below the Premiership level.
Regional teams to be used as feeder clubs/reserve teams for Premiership teams.
Absolutely no TV money filtering down to regional leagues, most of teams not needing it anyway due to link up with Premiership teams.
No international friendlies.
Serious consideration to a European super league.
FIFA giving World Cup to more and more obscure countries who are willing to comply with their tax demands and allow FIFA to award contracts for building, transport and security to their preferred (ie ones where they have a personal interest) companies.
First footballer on a £1m per week contract...actually, I don't think that will take till 2022!

 

I'm going to Bookmark this, Gordon.

I think you'll be pretty accurate with your crystal ball gazing.

 

One the day when we see the first footballer to have played in the Premier League to have 'come out' as gay, the ridiculousness of FIFA's decision is put into sharp focus.

FIFA are supposed to be about inclusion, anti-discrimination and the theory that all can be involved in sport without fear of being castigated for who they are. Remember the 'RESPECT' campaign? So, how can they justify giving the World Cup, their showpiece event, to a nation where homosexuality is illegal, and gay fans will quite simply not be tolerated, and forced to keep their relationships underground if they are to travel to the tournament?

They can't. There are too many barriers to Qatar being an ideal venue for such a tournament, it can only be concluded that the decision has much, much more than football behind it.

 

Great points made.

Think we all know FIFA is as bent as a butcher's hook.

 

The selection process should be re-run with Qatar bidding on the basis the competition takes place in Nov/Dec , let anyone else including us bid against them

 

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