ESPN writer takes all-expenses-paid trip to Qatar, loves Qatar...

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10. I'd said the moment it was announced the fix was in

and that their bribes for committee votes (along with Russia's for 2018) must have been WAY more than other conventional countries...

That's one of the reasons England and the U.S. were so hot after the official selections...They couldn't come out and say they shelled out big cash for promised votes only to get double-crossed....

And of course there is the unspoken joke that the Qatar national team (which will be full of nationalized imports) gets an automatic bid as host, stealing a slot from a deserving team...