Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

You'll be pleased to hear that the odds are that 2034's Cup will be in Saudi Arabia, then.

In the future all football games will be played in Saudi Arabia.

xp they are seen as favourites but we'll see. Australia and Indonesia are putting in a bid too.

Possibly China.

Don't see " carbon neutrality" as a big deal. Climate mitigation goes beyond what happens in a month across three countries.

I mean if covering vast distances via air travel is an issue you wouldn't have a WC in the US would you?

it's low down on "things that are wrong with the World Cup" yeah, but it's very FIFA to not even bother paying lip service to it

Agreed.

End-state climate extermination events dictate that petrostates dominate world sports. It’s how sportswashing works i guess.

I mean, i’m a cycling nerd— UAE Team Emirates, Gazprom, Bahrain Victorious, Total Energies, more

Some chilling scenes from Brasil-Argentina.

Match delayed due to "riot" in the stands, but police were beating fans with batons. Messi took his team off field

I recently learned that Argentina did away with away game spectators about two decades ago.

Absolute joke to play this. 21 minutes, maybe eight minutes of play. Three cards, every foul the ref has to beg the players not to fight

Brazil struggling in qualification for the first time in a long while but they waited until there are six berths (plus a likely seventh via play-off) to qualify.

Brazil just never ever struggle in qualifiers. Three straight defeats 😱

The match was called very one-sided in Argentina's favor but that ain't why Brazil lost. They had zero ideas. Lots of balls played to prospective runners who never made runs, poorly weighted balls, bad first touches.

Argentina weren't much better, didn't even score until after Messi subbed out