The World Cup game occurring at all, or occurring in Qatar?
I for one hope that the World Cup goes forward in Quatar so that we may enjoy an entertaining and epic display of FIFA’s corruption, incompetence, and general rottenness set in the sheikdom’s gilded and chromed venues.
The 2018 games in Russia might be a problem (I’m giving it a ten-percent chance of getting cancelled). Qatar is different because of the hostile forced schedule change (games ending the week prior to Xmas rather than early August). Clubs throughout Europe don’t like the change of the schedule and want some financial compensation....which FIFA said absolutely no cash reward for changing the schedule.
My humble guess is that six to eight clubs will Europe will just skip out for the Qatar games. If the Germans, Italians and Dutch were to skip...competition goes down an enormous step and viewership would be a problem for any TV network to make a profit. Qatar will fill the stadiums, period.....but if your TV viewership goes down by half...that’s the end of FIFA profits for future games.