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I hate the very idea of this World Cup in Qatar, but I’ll have to watch: it’s the beautiful game

While sport speaks to the best of the human spirit, officials too often degrade it, says author and broadcaster Mihir Bose

The Guardian - UK

Archie Macpherson on the silver-tongued devil who sold out football

Archie Macpherson runs the rule over climate change, corruption and the lurid legacy of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

The National (Scotland)

Gianni Infantino: Fifa’s re-elected president spins an ever-spreading web of influence

A stand-alone runner to oversee the game despite vocal critics in several quarters as the most controversial World Cup in history approaches – but what is Fifa’s real role and responsibility now?

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To acquiesce to Macron’s call to stay silent on Qatar would be a crime in itself

The president of France has said politics should be kept out of sport but his request is not only an insult but a semantic impossibility

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to bizarre Qatar: a World Cup you won't forget - Joe Callaghan

It was a Thursday, apparently…Thursday December 2, 2010. Just 12 years but a lifetime ago at the same time.

The National (Scotland)

Catcalls dog Qatar's moment in the World Cup limelight

In his poem Die Lorelei, Heinrich Heine touched on the stillness of the Rhine in his portrait of the legendary mermaid who lured sailors to their doom on the rocks along the river. Just shy of 200 years after Heine's masterpiece, no siren songs have been required to attract footballers…

Radio France Internationale

The damned World Cup kicks off and Qatar is not in any mood to apologise

There has been a hardening of the host nation’s attitudes before a tournament shadowed by corruption, suffering and death

The Guardian - UK

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Why Qatar is a controversial host for the World Cup

FIFA's choice of Qatar to host the World Cup has long been marred by criticism over human rights abuses, the safety of migrant workers and the logistics of holding a soccer tournament in desert heat.

WEKU

FIFA President Infantino to stand unopposed for third term

Doha (AFP) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino will stand unopposed for a third term as head of world football's governing body next year, FIFA confirmed on Thursday.

AFP

An ugly side to the beautiful game

When the World Cup kicks off next weekend, a Western sense of fair play will be outraged that a country without any native tradition in the game has won the right to host the tournament through financial muscle. Insult is added to injury too -- due to Qatar's extreme temperatures,…

Bangkok Post

Inside Qatar's World Cup bid: 'Expanding the game', bribery allegations and FIFA's U-turn

Seventeen of the 22 FIFA ExCo members who handed the 2022 World Cup to Qatar have been banned or indicted over allegations of corruption and wrongdoing, but the tournament survived the storm

Daily Mirror

Dua Lipa dismisses reports she will perform at Qatar World Cup

The 27-year-old singer maintains she will not visit Qatar until ‘it has fulfilled all the human rights pledges it made when it won the right to host’

The Independent UK

Sport is not ‘apolitical’ when countries such as Qatar are hosting it

FOLLOWING the letter sent by Fifa to all nations competing in the World Cup asking them to “not allow football to be dragged into ideological or…

The National (Scotland)

Look back at 2010: ‘Qatar think they might just have got it’

Al Jazeera’s sports reporter looks back at the World Cup, from the day Qatar won the bid to the final straight.

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The Guardian - UK

World Cup 2022 briefing: squads take shape as Qatar kick-off looms

Our daily rundown will be available through the tournament, but here is a taster to set the scene with barely a week to go

The Independent UK

Sepp Blatter says Iran should be kicked out of World Cup over protest crackdowns

Demonstartions against Tehran regime continue Friday

Asharq Al-Awsat

Former FIFA Head Blatter Says Iran Should Be Barred from World Cup

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police, a Swiss paper quoted him on Friday as saying. "Iran should be excluded from the World Cup," the Blick tabloid…

Reuters

Soccer-Former FIFA head Blatter says Iran should be barred from World Cup

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police, a Swiss paper quoted him on Friday as saying.

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Financial Times

How the unlikeliest World Cup ever came to be

Was realising the dream of the Middle East’s first World Cup worth it? Qatar is about to find out

The Guardian - UK

Fifa Uncovered review – such brazen wrongdoing it’s like a particularly repulsive true-crime show

This queasily thrilling documentary shows the global expansion of the beautiful game – and it’s so shocking it’ll make you ashamed to be a fan

The National (Scotland)

Qatar World Cup ambassador calls homosexuality 'damage in the mind'

AN ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as “damage in the mind”, just two weeks before the opening of the football…

The Guardian - UK

Why FSG’s final act as Liverpool owners could define their legacy

In today’s Fiver: A shockwave and a moral conundrum

AFP

Blatter says awarding Qatar World Cup was 'a mistake'

Geneva (AFP) - Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar was a "mistake".

WEKU

FIFA's former leader says making Qatar a World Cup host was a mistake

Blatter, who has long said he voted for the United States, made the admission in his first major interview since being acquitted in July of financial misconduct at FIFA.

The Guardian - UK

Sepp Blatter says choosing Qatar to host World Cup was ‘a mistake’

Handing the World Cup to Qatar was a ‘mistake’ and a ‘bad choice’ according to the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter

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