QATAR 2022 was always going to be a World Cup unlike any other.
Shrouded in controversy from announcement to grand finale, much was rightly made of the appalling conditions for migrant workers and the despicable lack of basic human rights in the host nation.
There was a dark cloud ever present over the tournament from the moment it was first announced 12 years ago - one which not even the obscene riches of Doha could shift.