While My Qatar Gently Weeps

Actually Qatar must be laughing uproariously. Well I must say, I never picked that one.

If nothing else it did serve to show the truly Byzantine nature of the voting process. In the second round Qatar's vote count actually went backwards. After all those months of assessments, one guy changed his mind in the middle of the vote. Ridiculous! As no doubt will be the heat.

Funnily enough, we now have Sepp Blatter proposing to change the scheduling of the tournament. Surely, the heat and the scheduling requirements should have been part of the assessment but logic appears to have little to do with it.