Yeah, and that is where it bugs me off. I don't know, maybe I've become jaded after seeing so many things past few years. From the covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the world economy in recession,... When I look at the World Cup in Qatar, I can not see it as a normal soccer game anymore. Or free from political stuff that we used to say sports remove the barrier and bring people all around the world together. All the 'noise' behind it, the ugly at how it has become.
Some posts earlier talked about: What are we going to do about it? There is nothing we could do. Cause no amount of boycott worth jack shit as Qatar doesn't care about profit. So what? Might just come to the acceptance phase and just enjoy it? Hell no.
With a few weeks remaining for the start of the world cup, now it is too late for any sort of protests or boycotting. Action should have been taken in 2011, when it was revealed that Qatar won the bidding process by bribing some of the voters. In any other sports association, they would have been asked to forfeit the hosting rights. But FIFA took a very lenient stance on Qatar. Even the former FIFA president Sepp Blatter claimed that Qatar won hosting rights through unfair means. There were protest back then as well, but the mainstream media had a policy of censoring those events.