Was Qatar a wrong decision for 2022 World Cup?

Of course it shouldn't however the decision was made months in advance, Qatar were in the process of building a new airport three months before the vote because "we've secured the World Cup". The decision to gift Russia a World Cup is also debatable due to it's poor racial record however that's another debate.

The main concern of this thread appears to be the heat. Well I can assure you this won't be a problem. Why? Well that's down to the fact that Blatter and his friends are now debating after the vote has been passed whether or not to make the World Cup a winter World Cup. Details like those should be sorted before a vote, not after. A winter World Cup would cause more disgruntlement than the current debate on the weather. European football becomes very busy in winter, to disrupt a season or two for a silly World Cup is something that the European leagues won't take lightly and it wouldn't be a surprise to see a number of countries pull out. It would totally mess up the schedule for a World Cup that many don't want, even the Qatar people are not bothered.

FIFA's 'taking football to the people' scam is nothing but that, a scam. If they were truly interested in helping the people then they wouldn't select a country where the stadiums will be taken down after the event. Oh and of course, it's not really taking football to a country now is it considering Qatar is smaller than Manchester. How will a country that small be able to host thousands of supporters should they turn up (arf). But going back to an earlier point, the people don't want it. They're not interested. In a recent game between Japan and Saudi Arabia the attendance was classed as 2,000 however journalists who attended claimed it looked more like 600. In England in the 80's we had football firms bigger than that.

Oh and I'll just visit an earlier point before logging out. Even if FIFA dared to host it in the summer with the air conditioned stadiums, what would happen to the fans outside of the ground? I'll leave that with the supporters of Qatar's silly World Cup to ponder.

I am just glad it isn't here.