2022 World Cup Discussion

aguero93:20 said:
England will win it and December 18th will become a national day of mourning over here as we've to listen to ye cunts for another 60 fucking years
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Nah.

I want to see every Scot,Welsh and Irish man (north and south) wearing Ayatollah outfits as Engerland struggle to a 1-1 draw with Iran before being gubbed by Team America and Gareth Wales.
 
My level of excitement about the WC is usually about 1/2 of my excitement for City but all of this corruption with Qatar really has me turned off on it. I'm hoping USA gets out of the group and a little banter with you English pricks should be fun though. Hopefully Southgate has Sterling on against us and he misses a few sitters :)
 
After the shite show on Monday night it makes you think how any of them will get into the waistcoats Qatar WC squad but I reckon you’ll see any of and most likely all of Rashford, Sancho, the worlds best right back, Henderson, RV Elliot and the bench warmer formerly know as Slabhead.
 
Personally, from 19 November to 18 December I shall be suspending all interest in football. Nobody is lily white, everybody has bad things in their nation's history, but I draw my own personal line at this repulsive event. For the first time in my life, (or since ‘66) I shall not watch one minute of a World Cup. Who wins it, who loses it, what happens along the way is of no interest whatsoever to me. And in so far as I can avoid it — it'll be bloody hard, I know — I shall avoid knowing scores and results.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Personally, from 19 November to 18 December I shall be suspending all interest in football. Nobody is lily white, everybody has bad things in their nation's history, but I draw my own personal line at this repulsive event. For the first time in my life, (or since ‘66) I shall not watch one minute of a World Cup. Who wins it, who loses it, what happens along the way is of no interest whatsoever to me. And in so far as I can avoid it — it'll be bloody hard, I know — I shall avoid knowing scores and results.
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Makes note to DM the results to you every day :)
 
halfcenturyup said:
Makes note to DM the results to you every day :)
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you bastard! ;-)

Actually, got a little bit of a story. For similar reasons, I decided to entirely boycott the Beijing Olympics. For the first week I was hiking in Provence (on the massif of the Montagne Saint-Victoire, among other places — utterly, utterly glorious.). The hostel I stayed in had no-one else staying in it. No radio, no telly, no nothing. Just me and the Provençal landscape, and fabulous Provençal cooking at the restaurant in the evenings, washed down with a few glasses of good local red. Dead easy to avoid any knowledge of the filthy Olympics, hosted by one of the world's most systematically oppressive regimes.
So. Second week, I had some work to do in Paris. And that was much, much harder. Every time I went to get a coffee at a café, there was of course a telly up on the wall, showing said Olympics round the clock. What I had to do was go and sit with my back against the wall, directly under said telly, looking out into the room. Why bother? you ask. You may well ask. I'm just a bit touched in the head like that.
 
Should be ok having some football to watch over the Christmas period without the stress of it being City
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
2022 World Cup discussion.

Who's going to lift the cup?
Emerging talents?
Side most underrated by bookies?
Will England finally lift the trophy?
How far will Italy go?
Injuries/upsets?
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Portugal
plenty, watch out for Canada. Talent everywhere.
Senegal
No
Didnt Qualify?? Is that a dig?
dont know about injuries,should be plenty of upsets. Watch the times for K.O. morning games will be hot and evening games cool. USA have all group ties in evening, so they may have a good group stage.
 
The 2022 World Cup, the first to be held in the Middle East, has been awash in controversy from the start. The vote that awarded the tournament to Qatar was rife with allegations of corruption and cheating. Shortly after the bid was approved, human rights organizations voiced concerns over labor practices in Qatar that bound migrant workers to their employers, inviting mistreatment and abuse.

Yet in a little more than 8 weeks some 1.2 million soccer fans will begin pouring into Doha.
And they will watch games in stadiums built by migrant workers, eat in restaurants staffed by migrant workers and take Ubers and subway cars driven by migrant workers.
Qatari citizens have the highest per-capita income on the planet, with annual average earnings of $129,360, according to the FinancesOnLine Research Center. And though they pay no income tax, those citizens receive free education, health and child care and are charged nothing for water or electricity, among other perks.
Meanwhile migrant workers from Africa and southwest Asia who work in construction, domestic help or in security and the service industry receive a minimum wage at $275 a month, plus accommodation.
According to statistics there have been 6,750 deaths of South Asian migrants in the 12 years since Qatar was awarded the right to host the World Cup. Many of those deaths were traced to routinely working as many as 10 hours a day in summer temperatures of 113 degrees or more.
37 of deaths among workers directly linked to construction of World Cup stadiums.
The findings, compiled from government sources, mean an average of 12 migrant workers have died each week since the night in December 2010 when the streets of Doha were filled with ecstatic crowds celebrating Qatar’s victory.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is expected to leave positive legacies in the areas of sustainability, technological innovation and Qatar’s international standing. Regarding sustainability, Qatar aims to set new standards and benchmarks through the tournament.
Qatar is also bolstering its international standing and influence through sports. Beyond hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup,
Qatar’s commercial capacity and openness to international investment and business opportunities provide a platform to promote the country as a desirable destination for tourism and trade. Qatar hosted 500 international sports events between 2005 and early 2022, and 63 in 2021 alone. Recent events include the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup and the Turkish Super Cup final held on January 5, 2022.

The lasting legacy of the Qatar World Cup remains to be seen!
The world is watching…
 
Oh well, at least it's a step up from FIFA awarding it to a nation that murders innocent civilians on an industrial scale, creates the largest refugee crisis since world war 2 and threatens global annihilation on a weekly basis.

Think North Korea will fancy their chances soon for hosting the tournament.
 
Will leave a lasting legacy in Qatar, you know that country with a population of 2.8 million people (most of which are global expats).
 
It will be a great tournament riddled with mistakes from tired players. I think England will flop because the back four is past its peak and Southgate has lost the plot. I think Portugal will probably win it. Good news for Bernardo, Diaz, and Cancelo.
 
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