So? We knew they were doing all kinds of shady stuff long before the World Cup. Why did FIFA go ahead with the World Cup in Qatar if all this stuff was happening? An organization with actual balls would have called the whole thing off and banned the offending country from international football for 10 years.
Because FIFA is IOC-level corrupt? Any governing body of a high-value competition structure becomes corrupt to one level or another, a very small number of individuals can be bribed to obtain a desired outcome, and when the desired outcome is prestige the multiplier is almost infinite.
Well, I boycotted it but I suspect that made little difference.
Problem is that if an institution (like the BBC) boycotted the Qatar World Cup, they'd almost certainly be in breach of contracts and banned from future world cups (and depending how vindictive FIFA wanted to be, UEFA and Premier League coverage too.)
FIFA has been known to be corrupt for many decades. They might have had 'balls' 100 years ago when the was little money in it, but I its not that likely.
