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My friend on the ground for the first match - quote:loving hell. They've arsed it up already. Imagine match day at Wembley x 5. That's Al Bidda Park for the fan zone. Capacity; 40,000. Queue to get in hundreds long. And at a standstill. 🧐
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Jose posted:gary neville highlighting the important stuff It's like he's just taunting Morocco.
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Jose posted:gary neville highlighting the important stuff host it in Egypt or Morocco then, they already have stadiums and a footballing culture and a population big enough to occupy more than one stadium at a time
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Nov 20, 2022 15:45
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vyelkin posted:Morocco five bids and counting!!
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Morocco doesn't count, that's so far NW Africa it might as well be Spain.
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goatface posted:Morocco doesn't count, that's so far NW Africa it might as well be Spain. They tried to get in on the Spain/Portugal bid until they decided to include Ukraine for pander points. Its actually kind of funny how much international football seems devoted to kicking the Morroccans.
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goatface posted:Morocco doesn't count, that's so far NW Africa it might as well be Spain. yeah but Africa begins at the Pyrenees so it still counts
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vyelkin posted:Richard Keys has worked for Qatar's BeIN Sports for the last 9 years. do you remember when saudi arabia bought newcastle and he wrote a big angry screed about how their human rights abuses are different and intolerable, in no way directly acting as the pissy voice of the qatari royals after being fired from being on proper tv
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I love it when these guys become hardcore Arab nationalists when you wave enough Benjamins in their faces.
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Nov 20, 2022 15:55
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amazing the number of rich white guys coming out of the woodwork to say "well you know, Qatar have treated me well so I don't see what the problem is"
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as much as it might suck to be a fan it's still way worse to work there https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/sports/soccer/migrant-workers-world-cup.html?smid=url-share quote:Migrants hired to work at the opening match waited all day without food and water.
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Nov 20, 2022 16:04
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goatface posted:Morocco doesn't count, that's so far NW Africa it might as well be Spain. Morrocco Cup Pros: African country so its a great tip of the hat to one of the most football-loving regions of the world that often isn't included in its highest levels. Arab Country, great tip of the hat to another of the most football-loving regions of the world that is often included in its highest-level decisions Muslim Country Close enough to Western Europe that travel is easy and convenient for the fans of the teams most likely to dominate play and reach the finals. Is a place said fans would enjoy vacationing anyway even without the cup French and Spanish both widely spoken Already has most of the infrastructure needed in place Great and deep football tradition. Cons: Absolute dogshit at bribery. Just awful. Just can't convert phosphate wealth into cold hard brown envelopes. Do not give cup under any circumstances.
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Jesus Christ I forgot about this thing https://twitter.com/Football__Tweet/status/1594347177245016065?t=RpEOri3blWJzWSoMriGCiQ&s=19
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vyelkin posted:I remember that back when they were trying to sell us this whole debacle, one of the selling points was that the whole country is the size of a single metropolitan area so all the stadiums would be within easy travel of one another and fans could attend multiple matches on the same day if they wanted to. I assume that, like everything else in the Qatari bid, this promise was founded on them inventing artificial clouds that would fly the fans across Doha gridlock from stadium to stadium, and once they won the bid they just forgot about it instead. hold up. you mean to tell me that "please come by car" isnt a good solution for getting a load of people in and out of a venue quickly and frictionless? https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1594305248037928962?s=20&t=NKmQ0-0YHm0mz-Tc31eVdA
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shirts and skins posted:Jesus Christ I forgot about this thing Someone said that's the ghost of the dead migrant workers.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:boy you'd have to be a real fail-rear end and bitchmade country to just build a 60,000-seater stadium with an enormous parking lot around it instead of spending literally any money on public transport [USA begins sweating profusely]
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When you're expecting to bus in most of the crowds from contracter pens it doesn't matter.
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$200b to spend on infrastructure in the 21st century, hmmm yeah think we should just chuck it all into big highways and parking lots in the middle of the desert
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FWIW the one World Cup I went to was in Recife, Brazil and the stadium was way outside town and didn't have jack for public transit going its way
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Teach posted:Someone said that's the ghost of the dead migrant workers. Wouldnt be wearing a ghutrah and agal if so
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the problem with public transport is you risk the guys you're paying 30p a day to drive the buses crashing and making your pristine event look bad
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Teach posted:Someone said that's the ghost of the dead migrant workers. Qasper t_he Migrant_ Ghost_
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im enjoying this fifa approved pride flag https://twitter.com/LesDegommeuses/status/1593352781385142274?s=20&t=xcPwvixuvtFBtMdxKJyvDA
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Grimson posted:im enjoying this fifa approved pride flag drat i didnt know the Adobe-Pantone copyright problems was THAT bad people cant even use the colors on photoshop to print stuff with anymore!
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So I guess the World Cup is just streaming live on Twitter? Cool. Who needs content moderation. What's anyone gonna about it, sue?
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Thank you, BTS Moments mp4
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Why are the Qatari spectators so miserable isn’t this their big day
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how many fans usually die during a world cup?
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Not enough. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Al-Saqr posted:Why are the Qatari spectators so miserable isn’t this their big day They have a guy to faint with excitement
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new wager: will he attend all world cup matches before crypto dot com collapses?
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It's actually rather shocking there isn't a crypto sponsor for this event since the two seem made for each other.
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whypick1 posted:It's actually rather shocking there isn't a crypto sponsor for this event since the two seem made for each other. crypto dot com pulled out of a 5 year deal with UEFA earlier this year
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whypick1 posted:It's actually rather shocking there isn't a crypto sponsor for this event since the two seem made for each other. Oil and natural gas are actual things with actual value. They don't bother with funny money.
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"I'm here at the dumpster out the back of this Qatari prison and it's absolute limbs"
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Pook Good Mook posted:Oil and natural gas are actual things with actual value. They don't bother with funny money. Gulf states have actually been one of the biggest investors in crypto because ironically given its origins and talking points they see it as a great way to have more state control over financial transactions
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