FIFA's farcical World Cup bidding process just gets more ridiculous
FIFA President Joseph Blatter oversaw the bidding process that awarded… (Fahad Shadeed / Reuters)
FIFA's farcical World Cup bidding process just gets more ridiculous
After awarding the 2022 tournament to Qatar, a bad idea in and of itself, it appears likely that soccer's world governing body will move the tournament to winter, which would only compound the lunacy.
Having made a mind-boggling shambles of the selection process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, Joseph Blatter and his cronies at FIFA are considering another monumentally stupid idea.
They want the 2022 event to be played during the European winter — specifically, in January or February — so that it avoids the appalling heat and humidity of Qatar in June and July, the months in which the tournament has been played for the last 80 yearsg
