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.
I nearly actually spluttered my cornflakes all over the screen this morning when I can across the
most ridiculous Arsenal rumour ever invented. Of course it's from the News of the World... The
story goes that Andrei Arshavin is very unhappy at Arsenal, and his form has dropped even further
since he has been relegated to [.
