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Fifa won't decide when it holds the 2022 World Cup in Qatar until the beginning of next year, the head of the body's timing task force confirmed yesterday.
Fifa executive committee member and Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa said he still had to talk to a number of stakeholders over when to hold the blood stained tournament.
"The decision is to look at the possibilities of the timing, as we speak now it is still June/July but the aim of this task force is to look at the other options and the concerns that some will have."
Football may not solve the working class’s problems, but it does matter — and politicians know it, writes BERT SHOUWENBURG
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR