who will host the 2022 world cup?

RIP Football, heaven needed a lot of cash.

One vote? Really? Even after Paul Hogan?

gutted for ya mate

Nah mate, it's our fault. We really didn't promise anything exciting or go on about taking the Cup to a new continent/region much.

Also, we forgot to bribe anyone.

lol

^ valuable contribution orrite

an acquaintance of mine, just back from a tour at the USAF base in doha, on qatar:

True, there is no alcohol... men and women can not ride in the same taxi, even if you are married. They have people that walk through their hotels listening at doors to make sure that no one is having sex, they will confiscate the dvd of Beerfest because of the cover art, it is not discrimination exactly but less than 500,000 of their population are "citizens" (out of 1.35 mil) the rest are what you could call minorities of ethnic ambiguity. Ratios are 4-1 men to women... did I mention there is no alcohol?

On the plus side there is little to no crime, they will not make the World Cup itself, they will pay for most everything FIFA wants.

This is going to be the best World Cup ever!

YAY FIFA!

Australia does everything it can to collude against football in this country (especially broadcasting), most of the people here STILL insist it's called 'soccer' and that various codes of deformed rugby are 'the REAL football' (the code to which this applies is wholly dependent on the state you're in at the time) and the rest of the entire planet is 'wrong', and to top it off we just submitted a bid video featuring PAUL HOGAN. Qatar probably deserved this despite its offensive conservatism/racism/prohibition.

I mean if I were on the committee and I saw the way Australia treats football and had to choose between it and a pumpkin, I'd be looking at the merits of a pumpkin, honestly.

wasn't australia trying to imprison paul hogan five minutes ago? was this part of his plea bargain?

Yeah I think the world cup trophy forms part of his fine to the tax office. Also I swear he didn't pay the GST on that motorbike.

Qatar 22 website is down i see

web servers must have overheated right

It was all a hoax, there's no such place.

I suspect somebody pulled a few qatar strings.

The FIFA 2022 office will be called Base Qatar.

The official airline of the world cup will be oh look forget it.

This guy has found a slightly less evil than FIFA: http://twitter.com/#!/madpie90/status/10489040537124864

It was all a hoax, there's no such place.

lol

but hosts do no longer qualify automatically? sort of bummed about that, as i was going to predict Qatar advancing through group stage thanks to 2 dubious referee decisions (one referee from Guinea, one from Tahiti) as well as 7 naturalized Brazilian players.

of course hosts automatically qualify - it would be too ridiculous even for FIFA to have a WC where the host couldn't actually take part.

oh I'm being thick it's the defending champion that doesn't automatically qualify

I hope that world's-worst-miss guy is still around in 2022

of course hosts automatically qualify - it would be too ridiculous even for FIFA to have a WC where the host couldn't actually take part.

anything's possible. :D

Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?

A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?

don't think we've had a tournament where the hosts were ranked 113th in the world before

Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?

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A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?

yeah and also failed the provide enough $$$$ bribes (you'd think they could've done something for us there!)

.. beginning to like the absurd bizareness of this whole Qatar thing though. (for example hadn't until today realized it was soooo small)

i kind of like beckenbauer's idea of having the tournament in january. i'd like to see players in mid-season form once in the WC

When it comes to bidding for the next tournament, a country with a sense of humour should put together a satirical bid based around park football and jumpers-for-goalposts, but openly promising €10m each to the thirteen corrupt members, and see how far it gets. I'd've proposed Ireland 2026, but fear that may be a financial burden too far.

Uefa members back winter World Cup. BBC top story for some reason, maybe because the EPL is opposed. I kind of think Qatar has done well to make it this far, they should see it through now, in the summer and everything.

http://news.sky.com/story/1191990/fifa-moves-2022-qatar-world-cup-to-winter

Christmas World Cup!

i thought i'd be more outraged but on many levels the EPL and FIFA deserve each other

2026 to be held in transylvania, 2030 at animal farm, 2035 mordor special

Robbed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQHBtd5VE0

jfc

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022

Ah, this was the thread I was looking for. (I updated the unfortunately titled 'lol fifa' thread :-/ )

It's insane.

I'm not sure the headline framing and use of statistics is particularly helpful, tbh, even if the article is a bit more nuanced. Qatar should be held accountable for failure to follow through on its commitments and the recommendations stemming from domestic and international scrutiny but it's pretty much the only country in the region making commitments or opening itself up to that kind of scrutiny in the first place.

there aren't any world cup qualifiers thread so...

can't believe jorginho missed that penalty kick

maybe chiesa can break through the defence

So Brazil and Argentina huh

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2021/sep/05/brazil-v-argentina-world-cup-qualifier-live

oh wow. i did not know about that. i wonder why they couldn't quarantine. or is it that they just didn't want to?

So are australia hosting the world cup or what

Walker/sterling use of the ball down that right is awful

There hadn't been a Scotland v Israel game for a couple of weeks so... it's obviously good that Scotland won but it would be nice to have the occasional comfortable victory.

scoring a last minute goal is still better than letting one in like previously tho, McTominay got that Man U extra time luck coursing thru his ... groin?

twas in this fixture that Robbie Fowler scored the greatest England goal of my lifetime. usually don't watch England but hoping for some dull echo of that glorious moment

picked a good one to watch

Group G is wild.

Norway failed to beat Latvia at home, so sit in third place on 18 points, behind Turkey on goal difference.

Netherlands were cruising to automatic qualification but have just conceded two goals in four minutes vs Montenegro, so they’re on 20 if it ends like this.

Norway play Netherlands in the last game. If they win, and Turkey beat Montenegro, Netherlands would be out.

Mitrovic has just scored, knocking Portugal down to the qualifiers unless they can equalise in the next two minutes.

lol, Italy. Should be 1-0 N.I.