Because why host it in a country where you can actually go outside in summer without dying? Meanwhile the death rate among the slaves building the stadiums is about 1 per day.
in short this is the biggest scandal in football's history and the whole of europe should boycott... see how their sponsors like it.
On the plus side, 2018 looks to be controversy free as it's being held in a nation with a fantastic human rights record National teams don't have the cahoona's to unilaterally boycott.....more the shame.
Yes, but if the FA (and every other national football body) just get on an attend, we are complicit, surely? There's one thing bitching about it, but if we never do anything about it then we're just as bad as Blatter and co. imo.
If it was my shout, England wouldn't be going. I don't really give a **** about England football, but it'll **** the prem up. No ****ing matches on boxing day?
Not just for that one season either, the seasons before and after will be slightly affected too to accommodate earlier and later fixtures during that 2022-23 season.
thy should be forced to compress the schedule to 4 weeks max and tak 2 weeks max preparation before... MAX. boxing day will still occur england will be out anyway...
Can't see the league stopping, that six week period (which will be longer) you highlight happening and then the PL immediately re-commencing. Clubs will go mad that their players are knackered and need a rest. I reckon there will be a week or two gap between the World Cup final and the PL restarting.
Well they (the FA) are complicit. If by "we" you mean us fans then there isn't a whole lot we can do about it I suppose. If the FA ever took a blind bit of notice of anything its fan-base said then the game would be very different. The Qatari authorities argue that the death toll is comparable to that of the migrant workers own native industry. I'd like to see some figures that justify that claim, but even if it were true, they tend to come from poor communities where safety practice and regulations are nowhere near as stringent as they should be in one of the richer countries in the world, so that's a pathetic excuse anyway. Just as bad are the dire conditions the workers have to endure, where they're basically the property of their employers and can't even leave the country without their permission. The fact that Fifa are so weak in their objections to these things just proves once again how corrupt and venal they are.
The FA won't be keen on pulling England out because they'd miss out financially. Do the participating countries get money for being at the World Cup...? If not, they'd still miss on on merchandising etc.
in spain maybe not here. after qf level 4 teams play a week more they won't include england.... those euro leagues will just extend their "winter" breaks. and start early that season or run slightly late thats not the point though its not what was voted for and its inhumane too it should be stpooed end of
.......and all because the FIFA delegates love a bung.. I'm still amazed that this entire debacle hasn't been dragged into the courts by one of the nations who missed out. As the bidding process was to hold a WC in the summer of 2022, same as every other WC ever. So having 'won' the bid, they must have had a plan to hold it in the summer months, and yet the basic fundamental of "it's ****ing roasting over there in the summer lad" didn't even factor in the extremely thorough examination of their bid? It's the most bent decision in the history of sport. For shame Blatter, you fat mess.
everyone in the countires FAs who missed out have noses in troughs and fear the public outing fifa can hold over them all Its far more likely in my mind that a main line sponsor will sue them over the terrible publicity.
FIFA have already displayed their complete disregard for the truth by managing to conclude that the report into the trough feeding, was in fact pointing the finger at England. Who just happened to be their most vocal critic. When they've got the brass neck to tell the man who wrote the thing to then pipe down, you know that they consider themselves to be completely beyond reproach.
Doesn't matter how **** England are. We might not even qualify but the PL teams would still be decimated through loss of players.
Qatar 2022 World Cup: England will benefit, says Phil Neville By Sam Sheringham BBC Sport Staging the 2022 World Cup in November and December could be the "best thing that has ever happened" to England, said former international Phil Neville. A Fifa task force has recommended holding the event in winter because of hot summer temperatures in hosts Qatar. "We normally go into a World Cup at the end of a long, hard, nine-month season when our players are absolutely dead on their feet," Neville told BBC Sport. "For an England team this might be the best thing that's ever happened." Tuesday's recommendation is expected to be ratified by Fifa's executive committee in Zurich in March. Summer temperatures in Qatar can exceed 40C while those in November and December drop to around 25C. The decision has prompted an angry response from the Premier League, which accused Fifa of "damaging" the traditions of the English game by disrupting the Christmas schedule. Former Manchester United defender Neville, however, believes the positives outweigh the negatives for the English game, and especially the national team. "I visit Qatar two to three times a year and to play it in the summer months would be impossible," said Neville, a pundit for broadcaster Al Jazeera. "If I was [England boss] Roy Hodgson I'd be licking my lips saying 'take me to the Qatar World Cup now because we'll have the freshest ever national team going to a World Cup'." England striker Wayne Rooney has played an average of 50 matches for club and country in the seasons preceding the last three World Cups. In 2022, a typical England player at a club competing in the Champions League could expect to have played only 14 matches games between the start and the season and the end of October. "We've cried out for a long time for a mid-winter break, maybe this will give us a great chance of winning a World Cup," added Neville, who won 59 England caps between 1996 and 2007. "In this country we are very traditionalist. We like to have our 10 weeks off over the summer, the games over Christmas, but the game is changing now. People don't like change but they have to get used to it." Neville conceded that the process by which Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010 before the timing of the tournament had been agreed was "all wrong". He is also concerned at how a winter World Cup will impact on the FA Cup, but has challenged English football bosses to come up with a schedule that will suit all parties. "Maybe FA Cup replays will have to be sacrificed, which would be a shame because it's a fantastic competition," said Neville. "It's up to the Premier League and the FA to work out the best possible plan so that nobody suffers, so that everybody: clubs, managers and owners are getting everything they want in terms of the correct amount of fixtures, the correct amount of time with their players and amount of time afterwards so players can recover." http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31610300
