I know many of you arent interested in football( or soccer if you have an indigenous game which you refer to as "football") but today the world cups in 2018 and 2022 were given to Russia and Qatar respectively. Russia being chosen over England and joint bids by Spain/Portugal and Holland/Belgium. Qatar being chosen over the good ol US of A, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
Now in the past few weeks( and years, but more so now) FIFA and its executive members have been proven to be pretty much.... VERY, VERY corrupt. But FIFA just ignored these allegations( which were proven) and went ahead with a voting process which was pretty much fixed.
So the 2 countries with the best stadia and infastructure (England and the US if you were wondering) were passed over for a country with basically a dictator (Putin), which impinged on the sovereignty of Georgia no more than 2 years ago and has generally some of the most racist football fans in the world. And Qatar has a human rights record more alike to Iran than any western country. I mean the 2022 world cup is going to be a barrel of laughs, with no beer( being a muslim country), where women have next to no rights, all these other factors as well as the fact the football is going to be sh*t because the players will all have fainted within ten minutes having to play in 45 degree plus temperatures.
So my question is.... can someone recommend me a new sport? I am sick of FIFA and their shenanigans.
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