Posted on 11/18/2022 4:34:47 PM PST by canuck_conservative
Just two days before the start of the World Cup, Qatari organizers have banned the sale of alcoholic beverages at all of the tournament’s eight stadiums....
Supporters will still be able to purchase alcohol at designated fan zones throughout the month-long competition, but would no longer be able to buy alcoholic beverages during matches. Attendees that have a corporate hospitality ticket to matches will be able to get alcohol in specific suites inside the various stadiums, but those tickets are currently priced at above $20,000...
"There is no impact to the sale of Bud Zero which will remain available at all Qatar's World Cup stadiums," FIFA added....
Visitors are not allowed to bring alcohol into the country, and are not permitted to shop at the nation’s lone liquor store located on the outskirts of Doha. They are allowed to purchase alcohol at a handful of licensed hotels and clubs.
FIFA’s decision also may complicate its $75 million sponsorship agreement with Budweiser, according to The New York Times. The beverage company tweeted, “Well, this is awkward,” after the news was announced, but the post has since been deleted....
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way to go, soccer
See the other story about this, from the Babylon Bee
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Beer without soccer is SOOO much better than soccer without beer. At least in my humble opinion...
Muzzies ruin everything....The biggest problem I have is that these towel heads party like the demons they are when out of sight...(the leaders and their offspring) but they pull the allu akbhar jimminy cricket card in public...F islam ....
Wonder what Qatar paid FIFA for this disaster.
It’s the homosexual cup. The western teams all have rainbow flags.
I guess the players are all pole smokers, celebrate pole smokers, and bend over for pole smokers.
As if soccer needed to be even more gay than it already was.
Hold muh Koran and watch this!
People love to say, "Muslims don't drink alcohol."
To that, I say, "BULL SH*T!!!"
Seen plenty of Muslims getting hammered in the hotel bars of Bahrain and Dubai.
They're sinners just like everyone else.
If you only take one, he’ll drink all your beer.
Sober soccer to the fans will have a similar result to what happened to grateful dead fans when the acid wore off...”Hey man, this music sucks”
First match Sunday Morning at 10:00. Looking forward to it.
Lol. Very good beer drinkers. Worked with a lot of them in the 90’s.👍
Note: Soccer is an incredibly boring sport if you aren’t as drunk as a fish. Hopefully, the fans don’t turn to rioting.
Qatar probably said "You want your rainbow uniforms, fine, but no Budweiser beer for anyone."
It's a tit-for-tat, and Qatar won.
-PJ
For suck a d!ck move if I were FIFA, I’d push the cup back two months and move it to a country the most ready— with enough venues, and leave Qatar holding the bag: and kick their automatic qualification from the tournament.
Meanwhile, you can see all their princes at the Nile Hilton in Cairo, Egypt getting ripped out of the towel head minds, drinking, gambling, and whoring.
Allah can’t see Cairo either? I thought it was just Bahrain he couldn’t see.
Boy, Allah must wonder why all those people make a run for Bahrain every weekend, where he can’t see. He probably figures the beaches there are nice.
If I was Allah, I would ask someone that can see in Bahrain just WTF is going on there every weekend. Boy would he be pissed when he found out.
Oh man, I sure hope Allah doesn’t see this post, I might have just ruined it for the Muslim people!
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