Too darn hot

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Forget it Being Too Hot, The 2022 Qatar World Cup is Already Deadly

FIFA has announced that the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be played out over the winter months of December and November. By the time the first game kicks off, that will be breaking with almost 100 years of tradition, with the tournament usually taking place on a four-year summer cycle.

It's got the easily riled football fan in a fit -- FIFA was already accused of corruption in signing on Qatar as the host nation, given the harsh weather conditions of the region and its strictly conservative views. But now this will cause headaches for the local league tournament organisers who plan seasons around the summer international schedule, with high temperatures forcing the scheduling shift for fear of making players ill, if not putting their lives at risk.

Yet even all that is a bit "aww diddums" when you look at the sheer numbers of people already dying just to build the enormous ego monuments to host the tournament. Look at the gravestones of the 1,000+ dead migrant workers, or those left currently struggling to put the insane stadiums together. The conditions really are fatal, there's the proof.

But by March of last year, 1,200 workers had already been killed on 2022 World Cup-related jobs, with the International Trade Union Confederation estimating that 4,000 will be dead before the first game has even kicked off.

I wonder how much bribe FIFA has taken? Must have been a substantial sum.

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We have to have sports to teach team work, who wants a loosing team? Is it me, or is the whole crazy and lusting for sports with team work, with gangs and thugs, militaries and religion following the same program? It seems like sports brings out the best in people, and also the worst. At least we don't have life and death games like the Gladiators. Military games don't count.