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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Perryman and Joanna Cannon

Will you be watching the World Cup?

A statue of the Qatar 2022 mascot, La'eeb, in Lusail on 11 November 2022.
A statue of the Qatar 2022 mascot, La'eeb, in Lusail on 11 November 2022. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

Yes. ‘Abusing the cup? It was ever thus, the upside is a festival of popular internationalism’

‘How do you solve a problem like Qatar?” Even Julie Andrews belting it out is perhaps not a terrace anthem yet but certainly what fans, and non-fans, have been pondering the last few years – a debate due to reach fever pitch (sic) as the tournament opens next Sunday.

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