No need for conspiracies – World Cup 2030 and 2034 are a plot in plain sight
What do a Saudi Arabian World Cup, inexplicable VAR mistakes, David Beckham pretending Qatar was the best gay World Cup ever because, like, his gay mate told him it was, and the cancellation of the HS2 northern section have in common?
For the first time I can reveal that all these things are indeed connected. Just because you've been cajoled into a state of paranoid alienation by algorithm-driven conspiracy theories, it doesn't mean they're not actually out to get you. Just not, perhaps, in the most obvious way.
First it is time to see the positives in what is finally a sustainable World Cup. Fifa announced on Wednesday that the 2030 men's tournament would take place across three continents, with 48 teams travelling up to 6,000 miles between venues in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Spain, Portugal and Morocco, plans that have been heavily criticised on carbon-footprint grounds alone.
On the face of it this might look insane, perverse and eye-wateringly wasteful. But drill into the numbers and it becomes clear that increased oil revenues from the long-haul migrations of Everywhere 2030 will cover the costs of Saudi's own World Cup four years later. This is surely the definition of sustainability.
Here we have a World Cup double-header that effectively pays for itself. Not to mention another example of the same joined-up Fifa thinking that led to a war started by the 2018 hosts helping to fund the World Cup infrastructure of the 2022 hosts.
This last bit is not actually a joke. Qatar Energy's annual net profits rose by $22bn (£18bn) last year due to the gas price surge from a war started by Qatar's Fifa predecessors Russia (World Cup motto: Play with an open heart). In the words of the great Jungkook: we are the dreamers. We
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