I found all these boycott calls very tardive and meaningless. The tournament was awarded in 2010 if I remember correctly. Twelve years where "everyone" sat through the decision to award it to begin with, the idea of playing in the desert, the absurd move to winter time and no one did anything? rampant allegations and investigations into corruption and no one raised the issue when there was time? it was twelve freaking years, and no one did anything. And now some random players or coaches say that the cup is a bad thing? now Sepp Blatter, one of the most corrupt people in football history, dares to come out and say "yeah we were kinda bribed" 2 weeks away from the beginning of the tournament? screw you and your decision to not personally give the World Cup to Italy back in 2006, may Zidane's headbutt haunt you forever, you corrupt asshole.
Oh, and speaking of Italy, we have to see the second world cup in a row without the four time winners... and current reigning european champions. What a crying shame. We can at least say we boycotted Putin before it was cool, and Qatar as well
Without Italy, I'll just have to go with alternatives.
My usual approach to world cups is this one:
- Rooting for Germany since I like the nation and I've been there many times
- Rooting as well for any scandinavian countries 'cause I'd love to be there
- Rooting for some random weak teams just for the lulz of it, 'cause underdogs are always fun
- Rooting against France because screw you France (or better, screw you football team of France, I like the nation itself)
I don't think I'll watch on purpouse any full match, I barely watch football anymore and I watch just the national team during a world or european cup. I'll probably watch some moments if I have nothing better to do. I'll just have a passive interest, I'll follow the results and fantasize about possible outcomes, that's all.
I hope this Cup tanks and bombs and will blow under every organizative aspect and that the failure will haunt everyone involved with going through this. Nothing personal against the Qatar team, but I hope they will receive blatant favors just like South Korea in 2002 just to highlight further the corruption of it all.