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12 years of preparation.
Inside Qatar's £175-a-night fan village of tents
BBC Sport's Nesta McGregor spends the night at the Qetaifan Island Fan Village just north of Doha, where football fans are arriving for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.www.bbc.co.uk
The thing is, with a little imagination and flair they could have made these soulless boxes in a dockyard into something welcoming and full of Middle Eastern flavour. A bit of colour, some flags, fairy lights, street food, entertainers etc they could have made it in to a party.
Right now it looks like a holding area for people awaiting deportation, and that’s being kind.