Possibly, but if they're going for it, I assume they've thought of that and are willing to spend stupid amounts of money building new grounds.
Read a book there recently called When Friday Comes about football in the Middle East; can't remember if it was the bit about the UAE or Saudi Arabia or even Qatar, but there's 20000+ capacity grounds being built in the desert a few miles out from the nearest town. The logic seemed to be because they could.
I agree they're unlikely winners cos they're small (the second city has a population of 30000, so the crowd in the ground alone would double the population overnight. Also, I like the way the first thing the article says about it is "It has a football stadium"). But that part of the world has a track record with pulling off nutty ideas, whereas Indonesia seems to be more chaotically organised. I don't think either'll win, but I'd say Qatar'd be more likely than Indonesia.
28/01/2010, 1:17 PM
BonnieShels
Funny that Qatar is too small to win and I'd reckon Russia would be too big to win. Though the football stadiums would be there. I would be putting a punt on the Aussie's to get 2022.
It would be nicely spread around all of the cities.
I would be praying though that any final would end up being played in Melbourne in the MCG rather than Sydney.
