On November 20th Qatar’s footballers will take on Ecuador in the first match of the 2022 World Cup, the biggest event in the global sporting calendar. Yet just 13 days before, Sepp Blatter, a former president of fifa, world football’s governing body, told a Swiss newspaper that, in his opinion, awarding the World Cup to Qatar had been a “mistake”. A tide of new money will drive big changes for the world’s favourite sport. Do you think that Qatar deserved to host the world for this year contrary to Sepp Blatter sentiments that it was a “mistake” having awarded Qatar the world cup?
