We are only two days away from the start of what the Guardian calls “the least anticipated World Cup in history”. Qatar has spent about £200bn on building stadia and other infrastructure in a country which, despite its wealth, has next to no sporting history or tradition (compared to the £10bn that Russia spent to host the last World Cup in 2018). The games will take place in eight stadia, seven of them brand new, built with the blood of migrant workers. Talk of Qatar 2022 being “sustainable” is so meaningless as to make the head spin. There is nothing “sustainable” about working young men so hard that they die of heat and exhaustion, and there is no obvious use for these expensive stadia after the closing ceremony has taken place on December 18.
Licenced today: another view of Oundle Mill, Northamptonshire…
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