dabseyman

Greetings Fellow Sandpit Dwellers


St Patrick the patron Saint of Ireland famous for ridding the Emerald Isle of snakes and some other stuff. He also gave us St Paddies day which is a firm favourite of mine.

I wish he would come back to life and come to the sandpit for a while because this place is full of slippery snakes.

Your opinions please.

Dabseyman

weasel central

christian saints struggle to get visas to Islamic countries

Norm_uk

Very good!

dabseyman

He could come back back from the dead and start some intensive football training. Get into the Qatar national team for 2022 hey presto he has a visa. Then he could deal with the snakes after Qatar get knocked out of the world cup.

co durham boy

The word is Lionel Messi's Grandfather has a Qatari passport..........

dabseyman

Will Qatar be able to field a team for 2022 that can compete on an International stage or will intensive recruitment take place over the coming years to get a good team in place. Remember when Jack Charlton put together an Irish team hand picked from the Premiership based on Irish blood lines.

I wonder how long will the planning and design take before we see a real explosion in construction work and accomodation rental prices.

co durham boy

I hear a scrapping of the sponsorship system is being spoken about , can't see it though , maybe a reduction from a 2 year ban to a 6 month one.

Main designs and plans are already in place for all the major infrastructure works , The Causeway , Doha Port , Doha Metro all but the metro are out to tender now.

It's one thing wanting to build it , it's transfering that thought into the construction process.
Qatar is a million years behind the U.A.E in that regard and it really needs to step up to the plate if they want to achieve it.

I think the whole thing will take around 12 months to 2 years to kick in , everyones expecting a boom and full steam ahead here , i always err on the side of caution especially here in Qatar.

dabseyman

Big changes will have to be made in Doha for the world cup. To name but a few.

1. Unmarried couples under the same roof.

2. Drinking of Alcohol in public and lots of drunk folks everywhere.

3. Differential treatment of an individual based upon his/her ethnicity or skin colour by the law or powers that be.

4. Road rage. Lets face it folks who are used to how it works here just tolerate the mindless morons who drive like lunatics. However all the football fans from all over the world might get as little offended by the the aggressive style of driving in the middle east.

Thats my few cents for what its worth. Any other opinions are very welcome.

Dabseyman

co durham boy

You'll find most will depart the country for the summer and those left will be outnumbered so they'll just revert to type.

Special dispensation will be made for alcohol and designated decrees will be made for the duration of the tournament along with a special world cup visa.

If you throw enough money at things you get a result , that's how they work here , they will have a shock though , no doubt about it , they're masters in their own little gilded cage like all Gulf Arabs and they're about to open the door and let the unwashed in......very interesting times..!

weasel central

most of them were Irish or had Irish parents, except good ol' swiss tony cascarino.