IT’S started already.
A Danish film-crew reporting live from Qatar was harassed by officials on golf-carts – one even threatened to smash the camera. Although the World Cup organisers have since apologised, it feels like an own goal in the opening encounters.
Never short of an opinion, the Dutch manager Louis van Gaal has already lambasted Qatar. “It’s ridiculous that the World Cup is there. Fifa say they want to develop football there. That’s bullshit,” he raged. “It’s about money, about commercial interests.”