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Re:The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Ne... by dmurray on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:43AM (#17037465)
This article made me wonder if the criticism of the Qatar World Cup - the working conditions of the labourers, the weather, the lack of football tradition, the pay-for-play - if that is all planted by Saudi Arabia and her Western allies trying to discredit and isolate Qatar.

I've read the stories about migrant labour and construction deaths. They sound terrible but people died in South Africa too. The climate will be significantly cooler than in Orlando. Japan wasn't a footballing power before it hosted the tournament. And literally everyone who wants to host it has to make it financially worthwhile for FIFA. So why the Qatar backlash?

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Re:The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Ne... by jonknee on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:22AM (#17039065)
It probably has something to do with the part about Qatar being a very tiny place (a native population of 300,000!) with very wealthy people and never having qualified for the World Cup before. That seems ripe for a bribe, especially because everyone knows FIFA is and was corrupt.
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