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In reply to the discussion: World Cup 2022 [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(102,533 posts)6. Yet another problem for the tournament: there aren't enough Qataris who give a shit
Many supporters who had left the stadium at the interval did not return, leaving the ground around half empty for much of the second period.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63603375
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63603375
That's pathetic. Any host country in the past would have taken so many of the tickets for the first game, and would never give up at half time, that it would be full all the way through. But it's a tiny country, with no history of football, so neither the football skill nor support are there. So even home matches have empty seats. God knows what some of the other matches are going to look like. This could be the first men's World Cup in any sport with few people in the crowd by the end than at equivalent women's matches when held in a proper footballing country.
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Yet another problem for the tournament: there aren't enough Qataris who give a shit
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2022
#6
I hereby bestow unto our dear DU colleague, Baggies, the Paul the Octopus Prize for clairvoyance
peppertree
Dec 2022
#57