Mange Mite posted:

He's probably going down but if pigs fly and he somehow gets off while saying stuff like that, he will become a deathless terror. And if not, well, who cares, he's going to jail for a longass time. You gotta play every last minute


They key here is that until now, the corruption was annoying but ultimately accepted as the cost of doing business because things more or less worked. Russia was corrupt but they're a world power and are fully capable of pulling off a competent World Cup. Qatar is different because it's literally impossible for them to host, and are now actually loving things up by forcing them to mess with season schedules worldwide.