I'm all for taking the World Cup to new and exciting places, but Qatar is beyond the pale. I'm sure I'll watch the evening games and England/Wales games that are on at strange hours, because I've watched every World Cup since I was a kid (my earliest football memory is the 74 World Cup in West Germany and the greatest team to never win the tournament - Holland), and still find something special about these tournaments - despite FIFA's best efforts to destroy them.

If I had a spare month's holiday, though, I'd opt for the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand next summer.