Quote: Asim "Billionaire Arabs and Russians bankrolling our clubs is fine but it is outrageous that they should want a piece of the action on their own turf.'"
UEFA and FIFA claim to be against billionaire backing of clubs. They've introduced new rules to curtail it.
But without the billionaire backing for Russia, and especially Qatar, their bids would have been laughed at. Qatar are building 9 new stadiums, which will be dismantled at the end of the WC and shipped around the world to make stadiums for 3rd world countries. Qatar only has a population of 1.7m people. The attendances for the SA WC were over 3 million.
I think England whining about corruption is a bit rich. We had the argument with Germany when they won the WC. This time we're supposed to have agreed to go after the 2018 if the US went after the 2022. And then there's our press, which IMO rightly highlight just how bent FIFA are.