Are FIFA and Qatar suffering one of the worst ever cases of buyers' remorse? They paid a f**k-tonne of money for a f***k-tonne of grief.
, former BBC political correspondent Jon Sopel revealed a conversation with an unnamed third party who’d been working closely with the World Cup’s Qatari organisers, and it’s fair to say that Sopel’s contact was not terribly happy with how the World Cup is being portrayed.
The Qataris could have easily taken a different tack in terms of how they managed the actual tournament. On the eve of the opening match, FIFA announced that the sale of alcoholic beverages would be forbidden after all, contradicting months of promises that the organisers would relax their laws for the duration of the tournament.
The first full day of the tournament didn’t go that much better for the organisers. England – and the other nations signed up to it –for their supine reaction to FIFA telling them that they couldn’t even wear their ‘OneLove’ armbands for their opening match, but this was hardly a situation from which the governing body or the tournament organisers emerged with a great deal of credit either.
But both FIFA and the organisers have picked a baffling array of battles to fight, none of which are doing their reputations much good. It would appear that rainbows of any sort are now beyond the pale at this tournament. No-one would even have known if those Belgum shirts had ‘LOVE’ printed inside the back of the collars had FIFA not spoken up on the matter. Wearing a bucket hat is not a crime.
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