I basically see three reasons to be hyped up and all stirred up (in a legit way) over this World Cup soccer stuff.
First, there's little doubt that a bunch of FIFA bigwigs got something for handing Qatar the World Cup. Lot of people now grumbling about how this was done, and people probably can say something over this.
Second, moving the Cup to late November was BS. I watched a German sports analyst last night on TV....going to a Koln sports bar and expecting people to be there....to watch the game.
Well....she walked in, and there were three people there. One of the three was mostly reading the newspaper while sipping beer..
A chat with the bartender? He grumbled....normally, he'd have forty chairs and a TV set up outside, with a hundred people inside and watching the TV there. There's no interest.....Christmas season coming up, and there's no money to be made. Guy even admits....in a normal Cup year....this four-week period would be 20-percent of his year's profits. This time? He's not ordered any extra beer, and expects this to be zero interest.
Third, you come to the amount of deaths in constructing the hotels and stadiums. Some say a thousand.....some say several thousand. Qatar management? No comment.
This gay business? To be honest, out of a hundred Germans....I doubt if more than 10-percent are stirred up by Qatar's anti-gay attitude.
What's funny here....I sat in a clinic waiting room (American) today.....with the TV set to CNN, and at least 12 Qatar advertisements came on during a 45-minute period of me waiting. Some for Qatar itself....some for Qatar hotels....some for Qatar Airlines.
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