Qatar 2022

[LukaMotion]

Should never have gone to Qatar in the first place. Stupid place to host a World Cup. Everyone knew even back then that it just wouldn't be possible to host it in the summer with the heat out there.

 

[thinktank]

Winter World Cup possible - FIFA

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/21644726

Cluster. Fuck.

Too many crooks at the top of football, they just need to be removed.

Fucking Qatar...give me a break.

 

[beats1]

Should never have gone to Qatar in the first place. Stupid place to host a World Cup. Everyone knew even back then that it just wouldn't be possible to host it in the summer with the heat out there.

I got a insane job offer there and basically got told in the summer there would be no working, due to the heat and it being unsafe for people to work and secondly the heat would be so much that the steel would expand so much it wouldnt fit in the building's tolerances

In Qatar, Dubai and etc. the heat is high that building's are designed to expand during the summer due to the heat!!

 

[beats1]

Cluster. Fuck.

Too many crooks at the top of football, they just need to be removed.

Fucking Qatar...give me a break.

Well nobody seems to be catching them out in our press, I fear our FA have told our press to back down as even the french press our coming out with more allegations than our scummy english press

 

[Lilbaz]

I got a insane job offer there and basically got told in the summer there would be no working, due to the heat and it being unsafe for people to work and secondly the heat would be so much that the steel would expand so much it wouldnt fit in the building's tolerances

In Qatar, Dubai and etc. the heat is high that building's are designed to expand during the summer due to the heat!!

So are my feet.

 

[hugrr]

I got a insane job offer there and basically got told in the summer there would be no working, due to the heat and it being unsafe for people to work and secondly the heat would be so much that the steel would expand so much it wouldnt fit in the building's tolerances

In Qatar, Dubai and etc. the heat is high that building's are designed to expand during the summer due to the heat!!

Many buildings are if they are over a certain size. The turbine hall at Didcot power station gains approx 2 inches in height on a hot day.

 

[Lilbaz]

My feet get that on a warm spring evening.

 

[Lilbaz]

I don't think my feet would like Qatar.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Give them their money back and pick a host from a country with a football history, not some strange land where you have to wear Jedi robes and can't have a vagina.

 

[llamafarmer]

The crooks that voted for this knew they'd be long gone by the time the shit hit the fan on this one, it was so obvious it wouldn't be viable. Absolute shambles!

Ah don't worry, we'll have air conditioned stadiums and gays don't go to football anyway and look at all that money!

 

[gilzeantheking]

Is anyone really surprised by this news? Really...............

 

[beats1]

Many buildings are if they are over a certain size. The turbine hall at Didcot power station gains approx 2 inches in height on a hot day.

True but skyscrapers in the middle east are built using Cam joints instead of a bog standard joint because of the expansion

Also just to add to the heat info, QPR went to Dubai and were only allowed to train for 2 hours during the day as it was too hot and its not summer yet!

Also england played there a while back and that had to be played at 12pm local time iirc, this is just stupid. Also Platini has said it may be a middle east tournament and not a qatar one tbh

 

[sim0n]

Spurs should refuse to let any of our players go on Health and Safety grounds. Even if they somehow manage to get the stadiums cool what about the training pitches? Are they even going to be in the shade? The temperatures hit the 50-60 degree mark out there (was in Kuwait when it hit the 50s and it is not a nice feeling), someone will die of heat stroke. Whether it is a fan or a player we will have to wait and see.

What are the fans expected to do anyway? You can't drink, you can't go out in the daytime, you can't take a girlfriend and share the same room (have to be married) can't get a brass. My mate has lived there and reckons there is fuck all to do. Good luck rant over.

the whole thing is a farce, no way am I going.... I think there will be plenty of people around the world who have attended WC tournaments before who will have no interest in going to Qatar for this...

 

[Lilbaz]

the whole thing is a farce, no way am I going.... I think there will be plenty of people around the world who have attended WC tournaments before who will have no interest in going to Qatar for this...

Think there might be a few from the middle east that will go. Which is fair enough I spose.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the Qataris will put on a great show and will throw shit load of money at it. But for us spoiled western fans it's a bit of a turn off.

 

[Real_madyidd]

I know exactly what will happen. England will pull ot, and West Ham will finally defend their world cup.

 

[Lilbaz]

Just saw they have blasphemy laws in Qatar. Will not go to any country that would send me to prison for expressing my views as an atheist. My feet wont stand for it.

 

[Danners9]

I got a insane job offer there and basically got told in the summer there would be no working, due to the heat and it being unsafe for people to work and secondly the heat would be so much that the steel would expand so much it wouldnt fit in the building's tolerances

During the summer I start at 9 and finish at 3. We have two weeks off for national/religious holidays.

I have friends who are working outside most of the year and they work 8-11am and then 5-7pm during the summer. It's inhuman. I feel sorry for the migrant laborers working on construction sites all day every day, 2x 12 hour shifts for workers most days (not friday). The plus side is that buildings are put up rapidly but it has a distinct feeling of slavery to it.

 

[Danners9]

Just saw they have blasphemy laws in Qatar. Will not go to any country that would send me to prison for expressing my views as an atheist. My feet wont stand for it.

Blasphemy for anti-Islamic stuff. You as an atheist would be fine as long as you aren't going round insulting Islam. Most Arabic countries are sensitive about that, most Arabic people will be quite accepting that you - as a non-Arab I presume - will have different beliefs because of your different background.

 

[tototoner]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/19/2022-world-cup-qatar-dave-richards?

The prospect of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar being switched to the winter has increased after the Premier League chairman, Sir Dave Richards, and Britain's Fifa vice-president, Jim Boyce, backed a move. The Premier League has always strongly opposed a change but Richards admitted the tournament cannot be staged in the summer due to the heat.

Richards, speaking to Sky Sports News at the Securing Sport conference in Qatar, said: "I think they will play [the World Cup] at a time that is proper for football but they will have to speak to the leagues in Europe. They will have to agree proper times when we can start and finish. At the moment it has a tremendous amount of implications for Europe. For us, at this minute, the answer is 'no'.

"But, if we take a proper view, we have to find a way to have a winter spell where we don't play and I think common sense will prevail. We've got Fifa now saying that medical people are saying that they can't play in Qatar in the summer because of the heat, which is probably right. I think over the next few years, things will change and they will come to a compromise."

Boyce, Britain's Fifa's vice-president from Northern Ireland, has now backed the call by the Uefa president, Michel Platini, for the tournament to be held during the winter. Boyce believes the searing heat of July in Qatar, where temperatures often reach more than 45C, will be too much for players and spectators, even with the promise of air-conditioned stadiums.

He told the Press Association: "I was not part of the process that gave the World Cup to Qatar, but my feeling is that common sense should prevail. The World Cup is the greatest event in football and from a spectator point of view it has to be played at a time of year when people can enjoy it in comfort.
"People I know who live in Qatar say it would be very uncomfortable for the fans. There is also a medical and health concern for players and spectators and if it is going to be safer to play it in January instead of July then I would be in favour of that."

Boyce insisted that, given enough notice, it should not cause too much disruption. "Many other countries already have a winter break so for them it should not be too problematic. England is probably the main country where there is no winter break but I believe that even there if they are given enough notice then for just one season it should be possible."

The Fifa general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, said this month that the 2022 World Cup could be moved to the winter if research shows holding the tournament in the summer heat would be dangerous for players. Michel D'Hooghe, the chairman of Fifa's medical committee, has also backed the move to play it in the winter. The international calendar has yet to be fixed beyond 2018, so there is scope for the world governing body to allow the change.

Despite Richards's comments, the Premier League insisted that its opposition to a winter World Cup remains. A spokesman said: "The Premier League's view remains unchanged. We are opposed to the concept of a winter World Cup for very obvious practical reasons that would impact on all of European domestic football."

Meanwhile, Fifa's executive committee are due to hear on Wednesday or Thursday the outcome of an ethics committee investigation into the ISL scandal. The case, involving the payment of millions of pounds in bribes to senior Fifa members by now defunct marketing partners ISL, has been scrutinised by the Fifa ethics committee investigator, Michael J Garcia.

Court documents published last year named João Havelange, the 96-year-old former Fifa president, and his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira as having received money. Teixeira has since resigned, but Havelange remains an honorary Fifa president. The ISL case also flagged up payments to two other current Fifa members: Nicolas Leoz from Paraguay and Cameroon's Issa Hayatou, the president of African football.

 

[beats1]

spineless basterds