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Now I’ve heard it all. FIFA are “giving serious consideration” to moving the Qatar World Cup to winter as it would be too hot in the summer!

Now you’d thought that somebody somewhere in FIFA might have said “Hang on. Qatar. That’s on the Arabian Peninsula isn’t it? Won’t it be a tad warm there? Let me check... Ah, yes average temperatures between 21^o C and 33^o C with highs of 38^o C and 41^o C in May and June”

But nonetheless the tournament was award and off went the Qatar delegation to price up the cost of 25 fully air-conditioned state of the art stadia and... oops! That’s going to cost!

So, the idiot in charge, rather than admitting that maybe they might have a mistake, or probably because the bribe money is all spent, decides that it would a groovy idea to move the tournament to winter.

Well there you go folks, if you’re a footie fan, cancel your summer holidays ‘cos otherwise you’ll miss some your team’s games. Winter is bad enough as it is but at least you can ease the pain of it by indulging in footie, either by talking/arguing about it at work or down the pub or by going to see your heroes on the pitch.

The whole of Europe will have to change their season. That’ll please the Spanish and the Italians. Summer football in their climes? I don’t think so.

Of course you can always shorten the season, get rid of all of the cup games for instance, so no FA Cup, no Champions League, no League Cup. No Play-Offs. That’ll please the likes of Sky Sports won’t it?

If the tournament is going to be rescheduled to winter, the European lobby ought to boycott. But I don’t think that they will have the collective balls to do so. So it’ll be us, the football-loving, paying public, which will be inconvenienced which will be typical.