The Brazil stories were more about a lack of hotel rooms and domestic transport limitations, not a complete lack of water and the cooling system the tournament’s viability hinges upon not working. This is on top of the fact that some of the stadiums aren’t even finished and some of them don’t even have pavements and road systems around them yet, 2 months from the start.
I hope this is the biggest embarrassment in World Cup history in terms of staging. I will actively be hoping for disasters (within the realms that no one gets hurt or seriously ripped off etc, more embarrassing moments for the Qataris and FIFA) that show the world what this tournament really is.
They’ve started to charter cruise ships from other countries to act as floating hotels to sit in the gulf as they haven’t enough room or infrastructure to deal with the amount of people coming to the country. There’s also the issue that way more people have booked flights into the country than there are available seats at games, make of that what you will.
Disgrace from start to finish. I won’t be watching a second of it but I do hope it comes figuratively crashing down and a light is shone on the human toll this has taken to build.
