It does, and it's an excellent reason why every country with some form of conscience should boycot the World Cup in 2022. You could have said the same about the tournament in Brazil to some degree, but the corruption, death and human rights abuse involved in that one still pales in comparison to this shit. Who wants to play a football tournament that has literally been built on top of thousands of corpses from immigrant slave workers?

Here's another article on the subject: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/qatar-nepal-workers-world-cup-2022-death-toll-doha

Opening line:

"Despite Qatar’s promises to improve conditions, Nepalese migrants have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014.

The article continues saying that if you include migrant workers from other countries, then the death toll is likely to rise to 1 worker per day.

Boycott WC sponsors,as well as the WC qualifiers for Russia 2018.

JazzG wrote:

That's not accurate of the FIFA structure though. There are 27 execs, it's just CNN being CNN

y va marquer wrote:

Boycott WC sponsors,as well as the WC qualifiers for Russia 2018.

Tbf if you eat at McDonalds and drink Bud, you deserve to be locked up anyway

General Mirth wrote:
y va marquer wrote:

Boycott WC sponsors,as well as the WC qualifiers for Russia 2018.

Tbf if you eat at McDonalds and drink Bud, you deserve to be locked up anyway

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I gave both up about ten years ago -  Coca Cola too.

A tiny and clearly futile kick against their culture. 

Actually I only ever drank Bud for a month or so.

Sepp Blatter has resigned! Lets hope it is not a Nigel Farage jobby and he is still in power in a couple weeks!

FBI must have some serious shit on them, turns out his right hand man who claimed to know nothing about the $10m payments did know about it. A letter was released after their statement showing they weren't telling the truth

There was no way he wasn't going to be affected by an investigation of this scale.

He's done.

I wonder why they went through the whole election circus last week then. Who takes over?

what a travesty. america stepping on the little guy again. these fifa entrepreneurs were just trying to get ahead in life and the big bad bully had to come and crush their dreams.

Good first step.

flobaba wrote:

I wonder why they went through the whole election circus last week then. Who takes over?

So that 'they' have time replace Blatter with someone who won't blow the whistle on them.

I'd love to know what kind of deal Blatter has struck with them.

Well this news brightened my evening. Good first step to sorting things out, hopefully it won't just be a case of trying to blame everything on Blatter and then staying exactly as it was.