2022 World Cup Discussion

mexico1970 said:
That's an incredible fact really isn't it, I for one didn't know that you could get bladdered in Qatar and that they even have bars there.
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They’ve got loads of bars and clubs, they just have to be attached to either a hotel or a sports club (the rugby club and golf club are both packed on weekends and have dance floors and DJs etc).

Very big expat drinking culture in Qatar and it’s also full of locals who simply wear western clothes to go out and drink.

Don’t blame you for not knowing though, the media is making out that it’s like Saudi.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
You ever been to Wembley, or Arsenal or Spurs?
I would hazard a guess that a great deal of fans going to Qatar (certainly to watch England) will be the many thousands of ex pats living in UAE / Saudi and Qatar. So those prices wont be an issue to them.
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The wages in Qatar for ex pat professionals are insane, a member of the golf club I’m a member off said his membership at the Doha GC was about £300 per month and rent was a grand a week. @SWP's back replied to a post a while ago, he’ll have pretty accurate figures on the cost of living out there.
 
hammocity said:
The wages in Qatar for ex pat professionals are insane, a member of the golf club I’m a member off said his membership at the Doha GC was about £300 per month and rent was a grand a week. @SWP's back replied to a post a while ago, he’ll have pretty accurate figures on the cost of living out there.
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Yeah it’s tax free and the wages are good but the expenses are also huge. You can’t own property in the main there and so every rents.

The rent costs are through the roof, living on The Pearl in a 2 bed apartment used to cost us north of £4k per month and our green fees at Doha GC was $1,000 per month for the Championship Course (ie full membership with a couples discount).

So despite the high pay and zero tax, the disposable income left for most people isn’t that much higher than it would be in a European capital. A head of Iceburg lettuce will set you back £5, beer £11-12, Hellmans mayo £5 etc etc, but petrol is cheap.
 
Not sure why but I couldnt give a fuck about the World Cup.

I generally find international football quite boring and just cannt get into it.....Euros 1996 was about the peak of my interest but nowadays i just dont care about it....Im not sure Ill even bother watching it

I felt the same about the Euros even when England got to the final...I wasnt even arsed about the result and only watched the game cause others were doing so.

Does anyone else feel this way. I just dont feel a connection at all with international football
 
SWP's back said:
They’ve got loads of bars and clubs, they just have to be attached to either a hotel or a sports club (the rugby club and golf club are both packed on weekends and have dance floors and DJs etc).

Very big expat drinking culture in Qatar and it’s also full of locals who simply wear western clothes to go out and drink.

Don’t blame you for not knowing though, the media is making out that it’s like Saudi.
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I was in the Red Lion “pub” in Dubai about 2006, Dennis Priestly was in there and had been having a game of darts with the locals. The dart board was vacant and two locals wearing the traditional Dishdasha attire came in, ordered two pints of Boddingtons, got a couple of sets of darts, took off the headwear and had a game of arrows, surreal to me but apparently not unusual at all.
 
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