Russia wins 2018 rights, Qatar to host 2022

[Dodge]

But what could they do if that's all that happened? Read the article. its more than that quote, and not really a defence of Qatar

[BonnieShels]

But what could they do if that's all that happened? Read the article. its more than that quote, and not really a defence of Qatar

Bugger all.

That's why I had a sad face.

[geysir]

every bid that was in serious contention sought to exploit loopholes in the bid guidelines and played to the line.

Loopholes kinda implies that the bid guidelines were a shodddy piece of work, exploited by crafty bidders.
We need a definition of what loophole actually means by Sir Humphrey of Yes Minister, something that covers a well crafted piece in a document, purposely designed to allow all sorts of shenanigans.
It will be interesting to see how UEFA FFP handles the Qatar Investment Authority advertising deal with PSG for €200m p/a, not including shirt or stadium naming rights.
Probably just an aside, but Platini's son works for QSI the owners of PSG.

[BonnieShels]

Loopholes kinda implies that the bid guidelines were a shodddy piece of work, exploited by crafty bidders.
We need a definition of what loophole actually means by Sir Humphrey of Yes Minister, something that covers a well crafted piece in a document, purposely designed to allow all sorts of shenanigans.
It will be interesting to see how UEFA FFP handles the Qatar Investment Authority advertising deal with PSG for €200m p/a, not including shirt or stadium naming rights.
Probably just an aside, but Platini's son works for QSI the owners of PSG.

Yeah. I heard that when the sponsorship was announced.

[Spudulika]

Qatar sponsor Barce, buy clubs and do lots of charitable things - like buy weapons from America to supply al Qaeda fighters in Syria. It's all for a good cause - oh, and sure aren't the Frogs pushing for Syria after Assad and supplying and backing the al Qaeda loonies there too, while opposing them in Mali - oddly un/barely tapped oil and gas riches in Mali have absotively nothing to do with intervention by them and their cousins across the channel in the UK.

David Conn (who I'd normally respect) had a piece in the grauniad today about migrant workers in Qatar, which was screamingly hysterical, yet the UAE is one of the worst areas for criminality, human rights abuses and trafficking in the world - but it's not important right now.

There is a definite agenda to go after Platini, probably set in motion by Herr Blatter and his buddies in the English FA, the same English FA who gave away the future of English football to a bunch of half-heads to set up the sky league and who (only now) have stopped cribbing about Russia getting the 2018 World Cup. One wonders what deals are being done to silence them and calm down the little englanders in the meeja so that Russia gets a free pass and Qatar (and France) gets a battering.

[geysir]

It's interesting when you read the Mondial blog (linked earlier) on the France Football investigation.
It's pretty much saying that, yes Qatar lashed the cash at the bid, but in the same way everybody else was, just that they had more of it. And that there's nothing new in the France Football's allegations that paints Qatar blacker than the others, because already there has been a high standard of blackness established and all within the loopholed ridden, bid guidelines.

[Spudulika]

The English were the first to get caught doling out gifts (expensive handbags amongst other things) and they were certainly not clean. In order to get any sort of event hosted there needs to be stimuli.