World Cup 2022

[Nuttall is lost]

Very low key build up this time around in general.  Not much fanfare or ads on telly for it.  A winter world cup.  Meh

 

[Aqualung]

Awful place to host a WC. Corruption springs to mind and a 5 week gap in our domestic season. Utter nonsense. 

[Nuttall is lost]

1 minute ago, Aqualung said:

Awful place to host a WC. Corruption springs to mind and a 5 week gap in our domestic season. Utter nonsense. 

Do you think there was bribery involved?🤔😂

[Upside Down]

Some of the stadiums look impressive. It's amazing what you can achieve with slave labour. 

[AllRoverAsia]

5 hours ago, Nuttall is lost said:

Do you think there was bribery involved?🤔😂

No, FIFA said so 😂

[Dan]

We should have boycotted it IMO, disgusting place to hold a World Cup. 

[chaddyrovers]

I'm not interested in the world cup currently as I can't currently get excited over it. The football season is on going

[rigger]

For me, world cups are there to stop me having to watch cricket.

[roverandout]

Love the world cup.  But this one not so much. Will miss most of the games through work.  Terrible time to have it. It should have gone to Australia 

Edited October 23, 2022 by roverandout

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 hours ago, Dan said:

We should have boycotted it IMO, disgusting place to hold a World Cup. 

It was a totally corrupt decision to hold the World Cup there.

[Hasta]

What are the chances of Kaminski being in the Belgium squad and missing the Preston game?

[rigger]

14 minutes ago, Hasta said:

What are the chances of Kaminski being in the Belgium squad and missing the Preston game?

At least we have Pears to cover for him🤣

[Norbert Rassragr]

Put me down as a don't care'. Wrong time of the year, being held in a non entity country that owns slaves and has no sporting history and we will probably go out in the first knock out round.

[roverandout]

In the past when rovers were shit. England games took my mind off it. Now rovers are doing well and England are playing shit under Southgate, this tournament has come at the wrong time 

[moerpho]

This WC feels wrong in every aspect (time of year, host, corruption etc) and I have never before been this un-interested in a WC before. Don’t care who plays the opening game, don’t care who wins etc….just want it to be over so we can get back to club-football. The WC and EC are supposed to be little DLCs to be played every other year after the main game is completed - not some lootbox you don’t really need, but have to buy to proceed. Ohh…and it will be a hoot when star players start picking up injuries in the heat. This will be a real shitshow….

[AllRoverAsia]

This could be fun ......

"the 2022 World Cup will introduce a radical new semi-automated offside detection system. The new technology, trialled at the FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi and at the Arab Cup in Qatar, utilises a limb-tracking camera system to track player movements and a sensor in the ball. It then quickly shows 3D images on stadium screens at the tournament to help fans understand the referee’s call.

Each stadium in Qatar will have 12 cameras beneath the roof, synchronised to track 29 data points on each player’s body 50 times per second. Data is processed with artificial intelligence to create a 3D offside line that is alerted to the team of VAR officials"

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/10/20/key-questions-answered-one-month-before-world-cup-2022

[AllRoverAsia]

BTW .. the weather should not be too hot in Qatar mid Nov to mid Dec. It can be a bit windy.

Any way this WC is worth a shite load of dollars to Beckham so it must be ok .....🤔and Turkey and Pakistan are sending loads of security officers and 'troops' to assist the Qataris ..... let me think about that one .............

Qatar in a relatively small place and the WC is being held in a small area of the country. It will run very smoothly or be a complete and utter shambles if anything kicks off.

Edited October 24, 2022 by AllRoverAsia

[G Somerset Rover]

For those looking forward to watching it, who are people's tips to win it? Hard to look past the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina) for me. Weather will help, whilst the Brazilians have the best squad IMO. Argentina are unbeaten in 35(?) games - so they'll be a tough nut to crack for anyone and have some real match winners.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Gavlar Somerset Rover!

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

For those looking forward to watching it, who are people's tips to win it? Hard to look past the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina) for me. Weather will help, whilst the Brazilians have the best squad IMO. Argentina are unbeaten in 35(?) games - so they'll be a tough nut to crack for anyone and have some real match winners.

I would have thought that the weather is very different between Brazil / Argentina, very humid. And Qatar, very dry. 

[chaddyrovers]

Still not interested in the world cup yet. I will be able to watch all games if I wish to but I will pick and choose the games I will watch. 

31 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

For those looking forward to watching it, who are people's tips to win it? Hard to look past the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina) for me. Weather will help, whilst the Brazilians have the best squad IMO. Argentina are unbeaten in 35(?) games - so they'll be a tough nut to crack for anyone and have some real match winners.

I would say Germany, Spain, Argentina and Brazil will be favourites for it. Tho England might surprise contender depending on form and how we take to conditions

[G Somerset Rover]

6 hours ago, rigger said:

I would have thought that the weather is very different between Brazil / Argentina, very humid. And Qatar, very dry. 

I would imagine they’ll acclimatise better than many of their European counterparts though.

[joey_big_nose]

It's a total joke really. The entire world cup is being played in an area about as big as and  with the rough population of Yorkshire, and the indentured labour practices are horrific.

The international football community needs to figure out how travesties like this world cup or awarding Russia last time can be avoided.

I've got no problem with new territories getting world cups providing they hit some base level of size - 30M people? And have respectable human rights records. This needs to be part of the selection criteria. If not democracies need to be willing to walk away from FIFA.

I fear we are not far away from a world cup in China - obviously will qualify on the size aspect, but human rights are totally unacceptable. How does the west handle that?

Ill do my best to get enthused by Qatar but its going to be tough going. I hope the players use the platform to protest.

 

[Giant]

Hopefully the Qatar team will lose all their group games so that the Qatari government is embarrassed. I wonder how many of their team will be paid mercenaries from other countries? 

[Mattyblue]

Yorkshire? It wishes! It’s got about half the population of that place on t’other side of the Pennines!

The brazenness of the corruption really is astounding…

[roverandout]

On 24/10/2022 at 12:28, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

For those looking forward to watching it, who are people's tips to win it? Hard to look past the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina) for me. Weather will help, whilst the Brazilians have the best squad IMO. Argentina are unbeaten in 35(?) games - so they'll be a tough nut to crack for anyone and have some real match winners.

I don't think Brazil or Argentinas squad are all that. Yes they are both playing well but that's Down to team chemistry. France have by far the best squad followed by England Brazil Argentina Portugal etc. Brazils fullback options are poor.  Their forward options aren't particularly great.  Argentina don't possess Any outstanding players apart from messi