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Completely missing the point. Qatar promised FIFA that selling beer would be allowed in the stadiums and collected a lot of sponsorship money from a beer compan
by dagw 4y ago
Completely missing the point. Qatar promised FIFA that selling beer would be allowed in the stadiums and collected a lot of sponsorship money from a beer company for the rights to sell that beer. Then 48 hours before the event kicks off, and when it is far too late for anybody to change any plans, they renege on that promise. They obviously waited to the very last minute to announce this change of heart so that people couldn't react to it or change any plans.
FIFA is free to hold the world cup in a different country.
Not 48 hours before kick-off they're not.
- spoils19 4y agoI disagree. FIFA is free to stop hosting the world cup. It can't be that hard to move to another country - other countries have stadiums and regulations that suit whatever whims FIFA has at the moment. This is just the free market that HN readers love at work - perhaps there should have been some criticism of Qatar before this world cup? I haven't seen any before now.
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