Why I am completely losing patience with international football
The joke that is FIFA and its award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar has made me lose patience
with the international game. That's one of the reasons why the European Club Association suggestion
yesterday that each country should play a maximum of six games a year seemed like common sense.
The 2022 World Cup will set the Qatar government back by $221bn in development and
infrastructure costs according to an analyst who does this for a living. Small change for the
richest country in the world even as they stand to lose billions without recouping but a small
fraction. FIFA by the way will have made out with its billions in TV and merchandising revenue with
all its earnings non-taxable because of its non-profit status.
photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com
By FRANCO PANIZO
If David Beckham makes a return to the Premiership after the MLS season, it appears it won't be
with Queens Park Rangers.
The club's manager, Neil Warnock, played down rumors linking QPR with the Los Angeles Galaxy
midfielder on Thursday.
When it was announced on December 2nd that Qatar were to hold the 2022 World Cup, football fans
around the globe collectively spat their coffee across the room in disbelief. Heck, I bet even the
people of Qatar were in a state of shock when Sepp Blatter pulled their nation from the
envelope.
