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Old 12-20-2022, 09:52 AM   #3535
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All that is fine and dandy. I'm just not sure that holding up Russia and that example is a great standard though. The reality is these last two world cups could've been in England and the USA respectively and it wouldn't have necessitated the stadiums being built, which is to say nothing of the deplorable human rights violations or people dying to make that happen.
FIFA got way too greedy. They had a good thing going with all the handouts and corruption. Even if their World Cups were Russia/USA or England/Qatar they probably would have gotten away with it.
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