Are they out of their effing tree!!!

[nferno]

Oh, you've got no worries on that score, nferno.

Forget Sharia law, FIFA essentially set up their own little fiefdom in any country that is visited with the World Cup. Tax law, employment law, immigration law - they all go out of the window when FIFA come to town. And that's not said in jest, that's official FIFA bid conditions. FIFA pay no tax in a World Cup host's country, they don't have to be bound by any local employment laws, and they don't even have to comply with immigration laws with regard to visas. It's the biggest snow job in the world.

ooh, i see. cheers for clearing that up.

 

[nightgoat]

To be honest, now they've given it to Qatar it would be pretty unfair to expect the players to play in that sort of heat... But at the same time, it would be highly unfair to expect them to go and play a World Cup in what would be for an awful lot of them the middle of their domestic season...

If only FIFA actually thought about things before doing them, and there's going to be gays at matches too... :roll:

 

[llamafarmer]

Blatter has come out saying he backs the plan to play 2022 in the winter. He's thinking about the players of course.

Should have thought about that earlier you massive twat!

 

[talkshowhost86]

If it's in the Winter I'd be quite happy for Spurs to refuse to allow any of their players to play for their international teams.

 

[llamafarmer]

If it's in the Winter I'd be quite happy for Spurs to refuse to allow any of their players to play for their international teams.

Surely there's no way FIFA can force clubs to release their players, they'd have to come to an agreement with the European leagues to shuffle their calendar and fit it in. Absolutely ludicrous!

 

[talkshowhost86]

Surely there's no way FIFA can force clubs to release their players, they'd have to come to an agreement with the European leagues to shuffle their calendar and fit it in. Absolutely ludicrous!

There's no way they could shuffle it so that it wouldn't be in the middle of most European leagues so I suspect there may be some terse conversations between Uefa and Fifa in the coming weeks.

However they organise it the competition would be in the middle of the Premier League season and that would disrupt Spurs (which I care about alot more than a World Cup in a desert) so yeah I'd happily see us withdraw our players.

 

[Lilbaz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9310671.stm

Players Union want it to be held in winter aswell.

Just realised the African cup of nations is on that year also. Do you get the feeling Fifa really haven't thought this through.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

FIFA have been made to look even more of a shambles with this mess.

On another note, it seems mad that we're talking about a tournament so far in the future. It's as far in the future as France '98 was in the past. Weird.