SHOCKING NEWS: Qatar too hot, too small, and with no football culture

WITHIN the next few weeks Qatar will begin a leafleting campaign asking visitors and foreign residents to respect its decency laws. It will remind everyone that clothing should be modest, covering shoulders and knees.

Rather more sternly it will warn that people making obscene gestures, reciting songs or uttering "indecent phrases" will risk a six-month jail sentence.

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Given that the average England football supporter swears copiously, habitually wears shorts and enjoys nothing better than an obscene chant or two, the Qatari authorities will have their work cut out (and their prisons full) when — or perhaps if — the World Cup is held there in 2022.

To critics it is further evidence of the sheer madness of awarding the tournament to a tiny desert nation, smaller than Yorkshire, with a population of 1.6m, an absolute monarch and a dim


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