Platini in Qatar re-vote call

UEFA president Michel Platini says he has no regrets about supporting Qatar’s bid for the 2022 World Cup - but says there should be a re-vote and sanctions if corruption is proved.

Platini’s name has been dragged into the furore surrounding payments authorised by former FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam to officials in Africa, allegedly to gain support for Qatar’s bid.

What more has to come out before the governing bodies of the game do the right thing and take the World Cup away from Qatar and re-run the vote and make sure whoever wins the re-vote has done it properly and fairly.

These allegations of corruption surrounding Qatar’s bid came out almost as soon as they won the right to host the tournament in 2010, and it has continued for the last three and half years and it will continue right up until the tournament.

The list of reasons why Qatar shouldn’t host the tournament is getting longer by the day, Blatter admitted it was a mistake, two FIFA members who were expelled for corruption were part of the voting process, the tournament will have to be played in the winter and all the European leagues will have to be disrupted because it’s 50c in summer and the workers building the stadiums are being treated like slaves.

Despite all that at this stage their still going to host the tournament!

Happily though there is still a long time for everybody at FIFA to come to their collective senses and award the World Cup to a proper footballing nation who can put on the tournament properly without all this excessive and unnecessary baggage.