That there is an organised and concerted campaign against FIFA World Cup 2022 host country Qatar is as clear as daylight. But said campaign has spectacularly failed in keeping the fans from voting with their feet.
Match tickets for the 2022 edition of football's (and arguably world sport's) most attended and watched event has already crossed 2.95 million, overtaking Russia 2018, when just over 2.4m tickets were sold across the whole tournament.
“2.95mn tickets had been sold up to Sunday’s opening day,” AFP quoted a FIFA spokesman as having said.