# World Cup 2022 - discussion, predictions, and thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-soccer-fifa\ **Created:** [November 6, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2022-discussion-predictions-and-thoughts/974476 "2022-11-06T20:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 114
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> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > We could try, but I think it’d be pointless. You can’t separate the circumstances from the sport. I agree that the circumstances that led to Qatar hosting the cup belong here just as much as talk about the mascot, the commentary, the refereeing, or the games themselves. But if we DO decide that the surrounding issues should go in their own thread, I’d like to nominate this one which I posted a decade ago when Qatar announced that they were breaking their first promise - no more AC’d stadiums. > [@Qatar should withdraw their World Cup bid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qatar-should-withdraw-their-world-cup-bid/618574): > > According to [this article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2059031/World-Cup-2022-Qatar-air-conditioned-stadium.html), Qatar is backing down on their promise to build air conditioned stadiums, because such stadiums are too expansive. In other news, bears shit in the woods. The only reason Qatar got the bid in the first place is because they promised pristine 26 degree playing fields. Well, that and oil money bribes. And now they’re backing down and promising “shading seats and using traditional Arabic methods for ventilation”. I’m sure shade and traditional Arabic methods for ventilat… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2022-discussion-predictions-and-thoughts/974476)._