While the deaths of more than 6,000 migrant workers, abhorrent laws that discriminate against the LGBT community and fears of personal data being hacked have hogged the headlines, Qatar’s football team have been working away in the shadows for more than a decade.
And the culmination of those efforts is about to be examined under the brightest lights of all as the smallest nation to host a World Cup attempts to prove that it was all worthwhile.
But how seriously should they be taken? Is Felix Sanchez’s team capable of bloodying the nose of better opponents in the next 10 days?
