Best World Cup Ever

It wasnt a great final up to 80 mins, then we got some drama. Calling it best ever is typical nonsense we hear these days.

As a whole a decent world cup. A lot of it was a dreadful standard until latter stages of competition.

The added time (rightfully and great idea) after 90 mins made it exciting in some games.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
People shouldn’t die just for our entertainment,

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People have been dying for the purposes of entertainment ever since I can remember. People have been dying in the construction industry since construction began.

Yes deaths are sad. But it happens. I wonder how many deaths in Qatar during construction are proportionate to general construction worldwide. They did have to construct a hell of a lot.
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Why would "hundreds" die building stadiums? It's all a ruse!
Hyperthermia kills many including in Arabia including reckless visitors. Workers neglecting health safety gear prone to accidents.

comment by Martial Law (U13506)
posted 4 hours, 9 minutes ago
just want to be the first to
Mbappe>>>Rashford
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Who was it that actually had the audacity to compare the two of them a while ago on here?

comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling tren... (U17054)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?

The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
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what has been a disaster? People who have been out there all reckon it has been great.

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
Please show me another event that caused a similar number of deaths? Considering Qatar used slave Labour to construct these stadiums and these people were treated like absolute sh-t I’d imagine far more than anything similar hence why the outrage.
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There has not been another event where so much infrastructure was built over a twelve year period. Stadiums, Roads, underground rail links and over two hundred hotels.

comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
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Can't imagine you are gonna enjoy your relegation in six months.

comment by Cinciwolf---A Scottish world champion and Messsi the goat. (U11551)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
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Can't imagine you are gonna enjoy your relegation in six months.
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He’s got Liverpool as backup. Or is that leeds as backup to Liverpool?

comment by Cinciwolf---A Scottish world champion and Messsi the goat. (U11551)
posted 9 hours, 9 minutes ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling tren... (U17054)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?

The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
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what has been a disaster? People who have been out there all reckon it has been great.
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I’m sure some people have.

For others it has been a disaster: tents and portacabins with no aircon for accommodation, overzealous security staff, rip off merchants, supermarkets price fixing, inability to pay for food and drink at stadia and in fan zones with anything other than Visa… See the links above.

It certainly appears to have been the most successful sportswashing event in history, I’ll give it that.

I've seen fan cams and it's like a party atmosphere as all the fans are together in one city. The no drink policy has actually added to the great atmosphere, no trouble due to the drunken debauchery you would usually get from fans, especially the English fans.

Price gorging happens at every event.

While I'm not a fan of Qatar, I hate that the West try and pontificate to them what we think is right and wrong and especially after the things we do across the world, and also what about China, hardly anything was said about them and their human rights abuses when they hosted the winter Olympics recently. There were a few protests but not a lot from the media and the athletes.

It's been a great WC due to the drama in the games but the quality of football has been poor for me, I did miss the PL.