Qatar are putting pressure on FIFA to stop the sale of beer at all eight World Cup stadiums, it has been reported.
The sale of alcohol is strictly controlled in Qatar, however, it is due to be available in an area outside match venues and fan zones, as well as inside hotels.Budweiser is one of FIFA’s biggest sponsors but was told on Saturday to relocate stalls selling its product at stadiums to less prominent locations.
reports that Qatar 2022 now wants to go even further and that discussions are ongoing between FIFA and Budweiser.In response to the request to move its outlets, AB InBev told Sky News: “AB InBev was informed on November 12 and are working with FIFA to relocate the concession outlets to locations as directed.
“We are working with FIFA to bring the best possible experience to the fans. Our focus is on delivering the best possible consumer experience under the new circumstances.” The news comes just three days before the World Cup kicks off, with host nation Qatar taking on Ecuador in the opening match,
What was going to be a un-atmospheric tournament already has just killed what would have been left of it in the stadiums. We should not be letting backward Muslim countries countries host the World Cup.
They've got some bottle
Yet u lot travelling to Qatar... Will sit in hospitality suite worth 12,000 pounds ..n enjoy the beer won't u
No one was going to Qatar 🇶🇦 for a piss up anyway
Imagine telling your friends you are going to the World Cup and they just say “Why you even going to the most uninteresting & boring World Cup?” Sounds loads of fun 😂
This should be interesting
Watching Engerland is enough to drive anybody to booze.
Good
If it does get officially confirmed - I wonder what they are going to do with all that booze. I reckon the workers should rebel and sell it on the black market 😂😂 - after all 80% of people who live in Qatar are non nationals.
FIFA's reaction in 2014 when Brazil wanted a ban: Alcohol is part of the WC, we won't negotiate, it must be the law that we have the right to sell beer.' If FIFA complies this time it shows how deep Qatar is in FIFA's 🍑
Why has anyone gone to the World Cup in Qatar? Is footie more important than everything? Where next? Moscow?
Absolute joke of a tournament based on corruption and bribery, basically fits in well with the current state of the world we live in.
FIFAWorldCup why now? Oh because everyone is there
May as well of hosted it on the moon 😂
What na only Una start dey host world cup?
How do you sale alcohol at the stadiums ? I think is a right thing to do, you don't expect a bunch of alcoholics getting into the grounds and misbehaving
Worst world cup venue in history should have never happened
Gone too far now
Their country, their rules.....should never have got the WC and you lot and your whole industry should have been all over that years ago.....but you all saw ££££ just as FIFA did
Sounds like Scotland on a Saturday afternoon 😴 behind times
You don't need alcohol to have a good time! But why take that risk.
Good luck to whoever wants to try and start any hooliganism over there!
Anyone going out there should be ashamed of themselves
Why is alcohol so vital to the experience of watching a football match?
So it starts
ISLAM.. the most fucked up backwards ideology you will ever find. Pork !! You can't eat pork !!
Everyone knew that this WC was destined to be a complete disaster, FIFA themselves knew when it was awarded.
It a ban on alcohol beinf sold in the stadiums themselves. I dont see the issue here, it's a sensible move and will keep the fans safer. What is with westerners eh? Can't go a 90 mins without alcohol? Take a long look at yourselves.
Will go down as one of the worst world cups in history. Ain’t heard one positive about it yet. Already being remembered for the wrong reasons.
Joyless turds
How else are they going to recoup the money they paid for the world cup and paying opposition players to throw the games 🤡🤡
benoggy18 Si_Fitz7 macdaddymac
Public beheading and stoning some women are the half time entertainment! But hey let’s just shut up and put as it’s their country so we should respect the laws…..get the players to give the condemned a guard of honour as well from the QF stage…it is their belief after all!
Well done again FIFA for corrupt decision to award Qatar The WC
Love this shithousery.
What a travesty, the whole setup is a joke
They've never even seen 200k drunk people before let alone try to control them. Making sure I'm fully shocked with popcorn for the carnage about to unfold.
Muppets
🤷♂️
Can you lot only get by by writing hearsay BS and knocking out mis leading headlines?
Its a disgrace that they are hosting a World Cup
The biggest mistake in the history of football was awarding the WC to Qatar
How about we just ban the World Cup from countries like Qatar!!
Sure Budweiser one of the biggest sponsors at the World Cup will be happy
Most corrupt world cup and absolute joke. Wait till 'REAL' fans get over there and the rest of the world ... gonna be some shit happen 👀
No they aren’t. They have spent loads of money setting up fan areas in and around the stadiums for alcohol for many months. More fake news
1 out of million reasons why u shouldn't host any big event like WC in an Islamic state
FIFA should spell this out to nations bidding to host world cup, people are coming from all part of the world, if you are not ready to allow them drink and express their views please don't even think of hosting the tournament.
Surely it's their choice!
You buy the world Cup, you buy everything that goes with it. If you don't want the world to see what your country is like then don't host a world event that watched by millions of people......and don't try to change how people have watched football for all these years.
Looking forward for this shit show to be done with so we can get back to the prem. shaping up to be the most boring World Cup ever.
I’ll be glad when it’s over and back to club football. Sick of hearing about Qatar, Fifa and the WC. Roll on Boxing Day.
Everyone cancels their flights… there are things that just go together, Ham & Eggs, Fish & Chips, Bacon & HP , Beer & Football.. FIFA & Corruption.. total FFIN disaster..
With Budweiser as a sponsor it won't happen.
Mum - Footballs coming home. The football at home ⬆️
Weren't these things sorted out before hand?
Fcuk off
great timing
They must organize an 'Islamic Cup' and spare the WORLD !!! Qatar2022
excuse me who’s insulting who here… it’s already an insult to beautiful game/World cup to be awarded to Qatar that has nothing to do with history/tradition, other than money. Even corrupt former fifa pres Blatter admitted it was a mistake to choose Qatar for 2022 … 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Literally impossible to choose a worst country to do the WC in. Never again in any country with all those stupid rules. Trying to ruin it for the fans. Its ok we get it, you love being miserable, its not our fault.
You got the World Cup now u follow fifa laws BUDWEISER IS A SPONSOR YOU CANT PUSH THEM AWAY
Allahu Akbar!
Wouldn't blame Qatar but the world football governing body for this silly mistake. Butter or margarine are not definitely in chimps menu.
Don’t know why as decent folks with morals won’t be in the place that ignores workers rights
Good luck with that. FIFA is the al Capone of sports.
So FIFAcom FORCED Brazil to sell beer at the stadiums when they hosted the World Cup and this Country new this when they bid for it, What a Mess!! What happens when a group of women are in the stands with their hair exposed? That’s against the laws of the country?
Terrible hosts, awful timing, just a completely avoidable mess in my eyes. First WC since 86 I won't be watching.
You'd be stupid to waste your money by going, just stay at home and get pissed at the Winchester
The stadiums are in Qatar right? Why is it FIFA's responsibility to ban whats on sale at your own stadiums? Yeah they are running the tournament but they don't control every fine detail at a stadium, thats the stadium managements or owners responsibility
Aye, it'll be a great world cup for normal fans! What a crock of shit! 💩
I’m sure Budweiser who are one of the biggest sponsors of FIFAcom are happy about this.
Why should Qatar deal with drunken rowdies?
let's go the mile and have no unguardianed woman, no music, no uncovered men's thighs, no applause or excessive celebrations for this sacred tournament that Allah's grace has allowed to happen.
load ov shite been to doha boss place you can drink just abide by the rules like every other place on the planet
People are pissed because Qatar is banning poison?
Good Lord. They have absolutely no clue what a World Cup is.
Ridiculous 😡
Why did Dey nw decide to host it then
Joke of a World Cup
The worst World Cup ever
I'm not in anyway condoning the scenes I experienced at the Euro 2020 final at Wembley but fearing this WC will have the atmosphere of the pandemic 'no fan' games, with fans in the stands.... 🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️
Millwall vs Qatari Police 🦹🏻♂️👮🏽♂️
Countries should just boycott it and go back home. Most anti football 🚾 ever
Why so last minute
They had four years and now they say it. Should never have been .....I was going to say awarded but bought is more correct.
Their country, their rules.
Boo hoo. Chavvy Charlie can’t have a beer.
But late in the day for that
Let’s hope there’s no bum tapping by the players or they will get dragged off the park ad suffer 12 lashes. Disgusting place to play football.
This World Cup already has the making of one of the worst in history. Thankfully, the FIFA delegates have been handsomely paid off for their votes, so we have them to thank for this debacle.
They already said they were going to do this. Ages ago
Seems like the sort of thing they should’ve discussed a lot earlier tbh. During the “bidding process” perhaps 🤔
🍻The straw that broke the camels back🍻
It’s Qatar, a country which is primarily run on Islamic doctrine where the sale and consumption of alcohol is strictly limited if not banned altogether. I’m amazed that sale of alcohol in sports stadiums was even considered. As the saying goes “when in Rome do as the Romans do”
Just cancel the whole thing
Said at the time giving Qatar the World Cup would be a disaster, it’s very quickly proving so. Only reason they got it was the wedge of brown envelopes that went to the likes of Blatter and Platini
W
Gonna be the shittest World Cup ever. Well done FIFAcom
This World Cup will be forgotten very quickly!!
They will change the rules to suit themselves they don’t care about FIFA it’s a game between middle eastern countries who can out do the others from the tallest building to the 1st F1 GP
Loooooooll
It's not like Muslims to cause havoc in stadiums....
Why is it difficult for you lot to RESPECT peoples law ? This insult, hope y'all get deal with
Ok, we put up with FIFA sellin the WC to an unknown tiny country with no football history, no stadia, no cities, no infrastructure & an inappropriate climate. We ignored them usin slave labour 2build the stadiums & we let em start the WC in November but no beer is a step too far!
Was a farce to begin with. Money talks. Good few back handers made this happen
Another reason this will be a complete disaster. It’s a sham to begin with.
This is very surprising , unexpected , who would’ve thought etc etc
It really is a scummy place
Really seems like that’s something that should have been sorted out before now, like maybe in the bidding process 🤷♂️
Well former fifa president was right giving Qatar to host was a mistake .when they know they don’t want such why didn’t they reject the offer of hosting. They are sick 😷
toryfuckingscum torycorruption ToryScumOut
How was this issue not settled ahead of time if they have been planning 12 years to host this?
Going to be the worst world cup ever..fifa is corrupt 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
These people are doing too much I accept the terms of them not letting fans to express their feelings toward LGBT because it's rubbish but banning a way of celebrating a moment is not that good The purpose of them hosting the world cup a way of promoting football in their society
FIFA have a lot to answer for. Bunch of crooks have huge headaches coming up
They don’t want to fill up their prisons when all the fighting starts. Like an early warning
The ones England play at.
Absolute shit show
Call me pessimistic but I'm beginning to think this World Cup deal isn't going as well for Qatar's OR Fifa's PR as they thought it would at the time
Next they’ll be putting pressure on FIFA to let them continue to treat gay people as criminals and women as 2nd class citizens. Oh wait…that’s already the case.
Is anyone going to watch this World Cup it’s the most underwhelming build up to a tournament iv ever seen don’t know anyone who’s looking forward to it
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