So however wildly improbable it may seem, perhaps we will fifa 15 ultimate team coins have to accept eventually that Qatar an unimaginably rich non democracy with zero footballing heritage and a track record of corruption where any tournament would realistically have to be played in the winter did not in fact win the right to host the World Cup by entirely fair means. The big question that follows, then, is to wonder what on earth can be done about the mushrooming fiasco that is Qatar 2022, only eight long years out from the World Cup. There is a scene in an Austin Powers film which pokes fun at the movie trope of someone not being able to get out of the way of advancing death.

A security guard simply waves his arms and screams "Noooooooooo! " in horror as an incredibly slow moving steamroller trundles towards him, and eventually a full 15 seconds of squandered getting away time later fatally runs him over. Whenever I think of the Qatar World Cup, this is the metaphor that comes to mind. Hundred of workers have died just in the construction of the tournament infrastructure thus far; new allegations of corruption attach themselves to the vote with each passing month; the searing 50C summer heat is almost inevitably going to force the unprecedented step of moving the World Cup to winter yet still the 2022 event is treated by Fifa as a sort of tragic inevitability.

What would actually have to happen for Fifa to consider removing the tournament from the rapidly oxidising hosts, or at the very least agreeing to a rerun of the ballot that so preposterously awarded Qatar the prize? The obvious answer is something like thermonuclear war in the emirate but then, is that really the absolute kibosh on Qatar 2022 we might initially assume it to be? You honestly wouldn't put it past Fifa to insist that the sides play on in specially developed anti radiation kit, even as the governing body delivers pious speeches highlighting the www.fifa14stores.co.uk game's responsibility to bringing about world peace.