World Cup hosts are speaking to their Gulf rivals not us, leaving a trail of victims that reflects the company sport now keeps
One year to go, 11 in the making. Welcome to Qatar 2022, the final countdown, and a World Cup that for all the noise, the sense of fingers crossed and a gaze averted from the bloodier details, still makes no real sense at all.
It was easy to feel a bit distracted as Sepp Blatter read out the word “Qatar”, with a slight break in his voice, shortly after lunchtime on 2 December 2010. There was an edge of hysteria in the chamber at Fifa House. Ten minutes earlier Blatter had broken the red wax seal on another padded envelope, and said “Russia”, to protracted squeals of joy.
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