Nottingham Post published Garry Birtles column: Qatar was wrong choice for World Cup
So finally the brains at FIFA have accepted it might just be a little bit hot in Qatar in the summer.Gone are the plans for air conditioned stadiums (and that never sounded at all far-fetched, did it?), gone is the daft talk about artificial clouds and, lo and behold, we are now going to have a winter World Cup.That, in the end, is the right decision. If the tournament has to be somewhere that is regularly well over 40c in the summer, then it has to be, doesn't it? Although more recent...
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