Qatar World Cup .'It's all about the money'

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Qatar World Cup plans spark outcry

The threat of a winter World Cup in Qatar in 2022 affecting the traditional festive period for club matches will see English football united in opposition to the plan.

England assistant coach Gary Neville has questioned the awarding of the tournament to Qatar

A FIFA task force recommended a winter World Cup in Qatar 2022 finishing in late December, with FIFA's executive committee to make the final decision on dates next month.

The Football Association, the Premier League and Britain's FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce are all set to push for the final to be on December 18 rather than, as some have mooted, on December 23 - just two days before Christmas and which would disrupt all Boxing Day and new year's matches.

December 18 is Qatar's national day and also falls on a Sunday, traditionally the day that World Cup finals are held and early enough in the month to allow the festive club programme to take place.

Asked about the final being held as late as December 23, FA chairman Greg Dyke told said: "We will have to wait to hear the detail but we will try to protect all the traditional Christmas dates."

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who was on the task force that met in Doha on Tuesday, said a final in late December could see the whole Christmas and new year fixture programme removed.

Scudamore said: "Our particular concern is that a FIFA World Cup that finishes late in December could result in damaging one of the English game's great traditions and attractions, with the removal of the entire Premier League, Football League and FA Cup Christmas and new year fixture programme that season."

Dyke said the best option would be for FIFA to move the World Cup from Qatar but that the choice of November/December was "the best of the bad options".

He said: "I have said from the start we cannot possibly play in the summer in Qatar, it would be ridiculous to play then.

"The best option would be to not hold it in Qatar but we are now beyond that, so November/December would seem to be the best of the bad options.

"It will clearly disrupt the whole football calendar as it means club football stopping at the end of October."

Gary Neville, the former Manchester United defender who is now an England coach, said football had to "get over" the disruption the 2022 World Cup would cause.

He told talkSPORT: "Disrupted for a World Cup? You're making the World Cup sound like the Sherpa Vans Trophy. The World Cup's the World Cup, it's hardly a tin-pot competition.

"The Premier League will be disrupted for a year, every 24 or 28 years, for a continent to have a World Cup. We've got to get over it. Football's a world game."

Neville accepted there were questions over how FIFA awarded the tournament to Qatar but that the region deserved to host it.

He added: "It's been shoddy how they've got to the decision, the fact it's taken so long and been a shambles of a process. But I've been to the Middle East a number of times and they deserve a World Cup.

"It seems to have been a bit underhand and they've only decided after it's been awarded but they've got to the right place, to make allowances for a continent to host a World Cup and for them to play in normal heat."

Bennys View .. Let's be honest, from the day this World Cup was allocated to Qatar, it's all been about the money..
The big 'Corporates' and their directors along with politicians and footballing governing bodies have all had their snout in the trough ..
"It's all about the money "

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As we said back in February .. Pig's with their 'snout in the trough'

Bennys View .. Let's be honest, from the day this World Cup was allocated to Qatar, it's all been about the money..

The big 'Corporates' and their directors along with politicians and footballing governing bodies have all had their snout in the trough ..
"It's all about the money "