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Crazy Ted posted:128-team tournament No seeding, completely random draw. joepinetree posted:Yeah. From 2026 onward, CONCACAF gets 6 spots in the WC, plus 2 spots in the playoffs for the last 2 spots. I can't even imagine how bad a team has to be to fall out of the top 8 in CONCACAF. It's one of the reasons I'm happy Canada qualified for this one. It wasn't the hex, but at least the spots were limited and they earned one. By destroying everyone too.
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:FIFA can just gently caress off and I don't think this will be the last world cup I won't be watching. Saw some of the ITV documentary on Qatar tonight and it's downright heartbreaking the poo poo they've done to workers and people involved in promoting the country on the international stage even. This to both this. I didn't know what it'd take to make me not watch a world cup but it's apparently exactly this much. ilmucche posted:Are there really only 2 places fans are allowed to drink outside the stadiums? Yep, and the non-paid for one holds about 3% of the number of people travelling to the world cup.
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Can't wait until @BritishLad88 beats the poo poo out of some local because he couldn't buy cans
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the sex ghost posted:Have you not all considered the fact that David Beckham and idk one of the other rent a stars on FIFAs books went there and said it was great and it was going to be the biggest party of all time. How many caps have these troublemaking journalists and migrant workers got. Not many I bet Old post but it was Franz Beckenbauer and his Wikipedia page under the FIFA ban section is certainly something. I thought he was the German guy who got a watch from the Qatari government but I might be mixing him up with Uli Hoeness
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Weaponized Cum posted:Can't wait until @BritishLad88 beats the poo poo out of some local because he couldn't buy cans
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Don't worry, those mouths will be watering at the stadium...because the stadium will have run out of water...because this is a gigantic shitshow.
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The Perfect Element posted:Ecuaphwoar? Saying it like the Sash track
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Whoops Hundreds of Heathrow staff to strike in run-up to Fifa World Cup
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:Saying it like the Sash track Lmao
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Jose posted:It's currently 35c in Qatar and predicted to be about that hot for the next 10 days in case anyone was wondering how awful this is all going to be Lol they wrecked the football schedule and it's still too hot.
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vyelkin posted:truly a mockery of a World Cup in every possible way until Donald Trump misses a penalty to kick off the 2026 CUM World Cup
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Jose posted:Giving Qatar the world cup was so nakedly corrupt even sepp Blatter thought it was a bad idea https://twitter.com/jcohenap/status/1589975039952048129?s=20&t=2rBcxkj0824VgXiq3SFojA
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Qatar's native-born World Cup Ambassador is quite the diplomatic fella...quote:Khalid Salman, a former Qatar international footballer, made the comments in an interview with the German broadcaster ZDF.
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I'm going to watch but gently caress FIFA and gently caress this country that seems to have no regard for human lives or inclusion. Glad all the corruption poo poo came out cos like this should have been played a couple of months ago in Australia, god damnit, it was our turn!
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CubanMissile posted:https://twitter.com/sbnation/status/1590510321050931200?s=46&t=UbcabbPHzEik-hzkY7jS9Q There were two documentaries about the Fyre festival. How many might this create?
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haha that doesnt look bad, ive stayed in worse than that for like $120 night oh its $203 a night? well, i mean, at least it has air conditioning youd absolutely need to have air conditioning in a metal box in a desert there's no way they'd put a whole load of metal boxes in the middle of a desert without air conditioning right?
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Those are just to waft the scent of decomposing bodies around so that the corpse sniffing dogs have an easier time finding them.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I saw a video of the shipping containers and they did have some fans on the walls. Did they nail them to the wall?
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Did they nail them to the wall? Sad lol. The closer and closer this WC gets, the more and more worried I am about the organisation, and other more and more saddened I am about Qatar's bid winning. I'm issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the
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Without handing it to uncle Sepp, I get the logic behind wanting to hold a world cup in the middle east. I think there was a genuine part of him that was proud to bring the world cup to africa. But like, putting the human rights abuses and massive corruption and sportswashing to one side (very easy to do) from a logistical standpoint this was never going to work and everyone knew it as soon as they opened the envelope. Sad!
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the sex ghost posted:Without handing it to uncle Sepp, I get the logic behind wanting to hold a world cup in the middle east. I think there was a genuine part of him that was proud to bring the world cup to africa. 
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the sex ghost posted:Without handing it to uncle Sepp, I get the logic behind wanting to hold a world cup in the middle east. I think there was a genuine part of him that was proud to bring the world cup to africa. But like, putting the human rights abuses and massive corruption and sportswashing to one side (very easy to do) from a logistical standpoint this was never going to work and everyone knew it as soon as they opened the envelope. Sad! Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are separating S. Africa and Qatar, if you wanted to "expand" the World Cup to the Middle East or at the very least an Islamic country, give it to Egypt. You're never going to get around the heat problem, but at least they have loving stadiums, fans, and a national team that's respectable. Qatar was so nakedly bought and is so transparently inappropriate as a host. Teach posted:Sad lol. Including this to say that it's not surprising to me that a country that gets by on buying and abusing their way through problems doesn't have the capacity to plan ahead the way they needed to. Planning a wedding is hard if you aren't realistic and don't know what you're doing or what you need to do. Planning a World Cup is about the most complicated event you can run and they clearly never gave a poo poo about the nuts and bolts. I sincerely hope no one goes to this stupid thing and the stadiums are embarrassingly empty.
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the sex ghost posted:Without handing it to uncle Sepp, I get the logic behind wanting to hold a world cup in the middle east.
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