- 1. Qatar 2022 forced labour a “stain on world football” ...
- (April 2016)
- Amnesty International report reveals abuse of migrant workers in Doha 1 April ~ Migrant workers building one of stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have suffering “systematic abuses” and in some ...
- Created on 01 April 2016
- 2. Qatar finalists ...
- (Youth football)
- ... are the winners of a mammoth and controversial talent search undertaken by the Aspire Academy. At the forefront of Qatar’s push for sporting success, the academy provides sporting and educational facilities ...
- Created on 21 March 2008
- 3. Red Card: FIFA and the fall of the most powerful men in sports by Ken Bensinger
- (General)
- ... back decades. From Buenos Aires to the Kremlin via the Caribbean, Trump Tower and Qatar, the work involved in building one of the most ambitious investigations into international money laundering ever ...
- Created on 11 January 2019
- 4. Supporters compare their club's owners to Paris Saint-Germain's
- (Cartoons)
- "PSG are owned by Qatar. We must be owned by San Marino." By Dave Robinson from WSC 368 ...
- Created on 14 September 2017
- 5. The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners
- (General)
- ... picture. He is, for example, forensic to a fault on the devastating effects of Ukraine’s civil war on its national football league and in cataloguing flagrant rights abuses of migrant workers in Qatar ...
- Created on 13 September 2017
- 6. Gary Rowett wasn’t perfect but Birmingham’s move for Zola makes no sense
- (Stories)
- ... years since he last managed in England, and he was most recently sacked by Qatari side Al-Arabi. Regardless of whether or not the decision works out, it sits uneasily with supporters of a club more accustomed ...
- Created on 16 December 2016
- 7. Japan’s Club World Cup highlights shift from traditional powerbases
- (Stories)
- ... UEFA honours, yet neither Anfield nor Goodison Park has hosted a major European final. Tiny, oil-rich Qatar’s selection as hosts for 2022 confirmed the lie in FIFA’s stated policy of staging World Cups ...
- Created on 15 December 2016
- 8. WSC 358 out now
- (Stories)
- ... your team | Celebrating 30 years of the Orientear | Do banning orders really work? | Cambridge City’s grounds for complaint | Qatar Aspire for more | Focus on Terry Venables at Barcelona | The Kurdish ...
- Created on 08 November 2016
- 9. American Huckster
- (General)
- ... his Trump Tower base in November 2011. This was just under a year after FIFA’s decision to award the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, and while a generation of FIFA powerbrokers and crooks was ...
- Created on 22 July 2016
- 10. Renaming stands and the problems with recognition
- (February 2016)
- ... ather than succumb to the modern football fashion of promoting a sponsorship partner. No one wants to see the Commercial Bank of Qatar Stand. Adam Shaw Photo by Colin McPherson for WSC Photography: A ...
- Created on 17 February 2016
- 11. WSC 348 out now
- (January 2016)
- ... north-west London Slovakia's ground problems World stars head for Qatar Book reviews ~ Didier Drogba; fictional foul play; Shankly's village; Bob Latchford Availability WSC is the only nationally availab ...
- Created on 12 January 2016
- 12. Weekly Howl 31-07-15
- (2015)
- ... been outspoken against Qatar staging the 2022 World Cup. This is the same man who voted for the Gulf state as hosts. Even Sepp Blatter didn't do that. --- Badge of the week ~ Naft Maysan SC, Iraq Yea ...
- Created on 31 July 2015
- 13. Weekly Howl 27-02-15
- (2015)
- ... --- The anti-Blatter revolutionary Luis Figo “welcomes winter World Cup in Qatar”. But then the PR company representing him also promoted Qatar's 2022 bid. The football family, there. --- fro ...
- Created on 05 March 2015
- 14. Weekly Howl 05-12-14
- (2014)
- ... h a try. --- Badge of the week ~ Umm Salal SC, Qatar There were no European visitors to Qatar until the early 1920s, partly because of a strict immigration policy by its rulers and partly because ...
- Created on 11 December 2014
- 15. I Think, Therefore I Play
- (Players)
- ... est invention of all time") and wine, albeit from his father's vineyards. With a grand flourish he turns down €40 million (£32m) to join Qatar's Al-Sadd, preferring instead one last bow for his countr ...
- Created on 18 July 2014
- 16. Ecuador & Honduras preview ~ World Cup 2014
- (World Cup 2014)
- ... twork Univision. Expect Ecuador goals to be dedicated to the memory of ex-Birmingham City striker Christian "El Chuco" (The Pooch) Benítez, who died of a heart attack aged 27 while playing in Qatar las ...
- Created on 15 June 2014
- 17. Fear And Loathing In La Liga
- (Clubs)
- ... football fans. Even those who question the Catalan club's "football philosophy", or its board's financial dealings with Qatar and Brazil, still often see Barça as purer than, and morally superior to, t ...
- Created on 03 December 2013
- 18. Weekly Howl 15-11-13
- (2013)
- ... will be staged, even if they find evidence of corruption in the bidding process. Instead, the executive committee must make that decision. So the World Cup can only be taken away from Qatar if the peopl ...
- Created on 20 November 2013
- 19. Weekly Howl 20-09-13
- (2013)
- ... Those opposed to Qatar hosting the tournament are now pinning their hopes on an investigation by FIFA's ethics committee which is looking for evidence of corruption in the voting. Their report is due i ...
- Created on 25 September 2013
- 20. Weekly Howl 22-03-13
- (2013)
- ... out to Qatar to work as a TV pundit. Apparently the cabin pressure is good for the knees. --- Badge of the week ~ AO Ayia Napa, Cyprus There was a cultural scramble in Cyprus to obtain the rights t ...
- Created on 27 March 2013
