| I don't like neither Chinese, neither Russian government. That said, unless we restrict such events to a very limited set of countries, we have to let a number of countries whose behavior we don't approve, as long as the event itself is properly handled. Chinese Olympics where properly handled, ditto for Russian Winter Olympics (at least as far as I remember). Qatar didn't at all. They promised a lot of things to FIFA and then went back on a lot of them. Promised that the cup could be held in summer, we ended up doing it in winter (while forcing all the national and international competitions to adapt their scheduled. They promised people could drink alcohol, went back on that two days before the beginning. Promised proper accomodations for the fans, nope. The list is longer but I think I gave the idea. A world cup is not just the matches themselves. It's the fans, it's the atmosphere. It's the tradition. If you're not going to respect that, you shouldn't host them. I don't blame only them though, half of the blame is of FIFA. I realize that there is always corruption going on in such events (although I don't like it), but I would expect the money not to be the ONLY thing that matters. Instead, this such a case. |