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It\u2019s not that I\u2019m an Islamaphobe, it\u2019s just that I happen to disagree with a lot of their cultural customs, and when it comes to things I\u2019m interested in, I tend to be disenchanted with whenever an Islamic country hosts things, but imparts their, what I think are archaic and frighteningly draconian, rules and customs onto them.<\/span><\/p>\n I have little interest in whenever the WWE runs events in Saudi Arabia, regardless of the egregious amounts of money that clearly sways them, and I can say that I have fairly similar opinions about the World Cup being held in Qatar, right fucking now, instead of the usual summer in which most World Cups tend to be played.\u00a0 The difference is, professional wrestling is still fairly niche and there are way less people interested in the industry than they are about futbol, and the whole every-four years aspect about the World Cup makes it harder for me to ignore regardless of my disagreement about Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that there\u2019s a yacht full of money somewhere involved to where FIFA agreed to have it in Qatar, but what has been ironically entertaining is the sheer amount of disdain and expectations of utter failure and ownage that the event as a whole is being scrutinized over, and after day 1 of the World Cup, it appears that the watching world is in for a great ride in the sense that it might just be a brilliant shitshow.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, Qatar really has no business being in the World Cup, only being allowed to play by virtue of an archaic rule that gives the host nation a spot in a group, and it was no more evident when they became the first host team in World Cup history to ever lose their opening game.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m not the biggest futbol enthusiast in the world, but I thought there was a constantly missing \u201cin X amount of years\u201d because the World Cup has been going on for a long time, and even if it\u2019s every four years, surely in some point in time a host country had to have lost at some point, especially since the United States hosted in 1994.\u00a0 But no, it really has been a 92-year streak where the host nation, has never lost their first match; sure, there\u2019ve been some draws, but still no losses.<\/span><\/p>\n Until Qatar, who was basically de-pantsed in 15 minutes, allowing Ecuador to score twice, and basically never challenge them for the remaining 80 minutes of the game.\u00a0 Every opinion that Qatar didn\u2019t belong was validated, and frankly, I\u2019m looking forward to their next two matches, and hoping they don\u2019t score a single fucking goal, which is a very viable possibility.\u00a0 They may never even have a single target shot on goal.<\/span><\/p>\n Amusingly, it seemed like the refs might actually be as unimpressed and disenchanted with being in Qatar as most peoples\u2019 opinions are; I figured they would have all been bought off, like most host nations tend to do with the refs, and Qatar was going to win the match.\u00a0 But be it Qatar\u2019s lack of skill, the refs ambivalence of being there, or whatever circumstance, Qatar players were getting nailed with fouls and yellow cards at an alarming clip, and I before I sat down to start watching, I knew the narrative already.<\/span><\/p>\n But the best part was undoubtedly the seas of empty seats throughout the arena, and the cameras catching locals leaving the game while it was still going on.\u00a0 Much has been made about, how being in an Islamic country means no alcohol at the stadium (unless you\u2019re a VIP in a VIP lounge apparently), as well as the reported attempts to basically buy influencers to pretend like they were having a great time, but once the matches begin, Qatar gon\u2019 Qatar, and fans who can\u2019t have a good time are going to bounce, and clearly Qatari fans are pretty fairweather, and don\u2019t want to stick around if their team is getting trounced.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, it\u2019s only been a single day, but I have to say that the Qatar World Cup has delivered on its fuck-uppery in an entertaining way so far, and I\u2019m kind of looking forward to seeing what ironic bullshit is going to emerge in the coming weeks of play.\u00a0 Also, I\u2019m looking forward to being able to make the obvious dad joke on Thanksgiving about how I\u2019m going to watch futbol<\/em> instead of football americano, because again, of Qatar\u2019s bullshit demands, we have World Cup over Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving Day just so happens to be the day in which Korea has their first match where they\u2019ll probably get trounced by Uruguay but I\u2019m obviously still going to watch because O Pilsung Corea motherfuckers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not that I\u2019m an Islamaphobe, it\u2019s just that I happen to disagree with a lot of their cultural customs, and when it comes to things I\u2019m interested in, I tend to be disenchanted with whenever an Islamic country hosts things, but imparts their, what I think are archaic and frighteningly draconian, rules and customs … Continue reading The Qatar World Cup is going to be not great-great<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,164,103,83,58,69,49,55],"class_list":["post-49049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-futbol","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49051,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49049\/revisions\/49051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}