BBC – David Bond: Qatar ‘spent big’ to win 2022 World Cup

BBC David Bond: Qatar 'spent big' to win 2022 World Cup.

I can't help wondering as I listen to David Bond's interview with Hassan al Thawadi, the executive in charge of Qatar's successful bid to host the World Cup in 2022, that we all got suckered in by first of all, a very smart intelligent businessman who knew exactly what he was doing, and by FIFA's decrepit bid evaluation rules that allowed all kinds of shenanigans to take place, "within FIFA rules", as he so eloquently points out.

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