There are happy hours in bars all over Doha that can be booked for daytime drinking.
I’m going to be in ‘The Red Lion’ prior to England/USA.
As for the ‘fake’ fans clips. Yeah, it’s a bit cringe but all major tournaments have their own quirky (often corporate) things about them that we wouldn’t necessarily expect down The Valley or in club football.
There are a lot of fans travelling over from India who will be adopting teams to support.
Why can't you just accept having the world cup in Qatar is ludicrous
There are happy hours in bars all over Doha that can be booked for daytime drinking.
I’m going to be in ‘The Red Lion’ prior to England/USA.
As for the ‘fake’ fans clips. Yeah, it’s a bit cringe but all major tournaments have their own quirky (often corporate) things about them that we wouldn’t necessarily expect down The Valley or in club football.
There are a lot of fans travelling over from India who will be adopting teams to support.
Why can't you just accept having the world cup in Qatar is ludicrous
Why does he have too? CAFC Tom is clearly looking forward to it and so he should, why piss on someones parade, if you don't agree with it fair enough but no need to question people who see it different, whatever the view.
There are happy hours in bars all over Doha that can be booked for daytime drinking.
I’m going to be in ‘The Red Lion’ prior to England/USA.
As for the ‘fake’ fans clips. Yeah, it’s a bit cringe but all major tournaments have their own quirky (often corporate) things about them that we wouldn’t necessarily expect down The Valley or in club football.
There are a lot of fans travelling over from India who will be adopting teams to support.
Why can't you just accept having the world cup in Qatar is ludicrous
Apologies - didn’t realise we wasn’t allowed to discuss anything in here.
If I see something (ie - a news headline) that is clearly misleading, and I’ve got a bit of informed knowledge to argue against it (or even just an opinion - god forbid) then I don’t see what’s wrong with that.
There are happy hours in bars all over Doha that can be booked for daytime drinking.
I’m going to be in ‘The Red Lion’ prior to England/USA.
Thanks for the update Tom. Which hotel?
I’m staying in an apartment in a block near the West Bay - near the FanZone I think.
I've heard there's a bar in the Marriott - Champions Bar - which is supposed to be quite decent and good for watching sport. A mate has been to Doha 3-4 times on work trips and has been there a few times.
It's also in West Bay.
@QatarNapsy - is this a decent place or is my mate talking nonsense? Would we need to book to go there during the day?
After much thought, I have decicded to set up in direct competition with the Fake World Cup in Qatar by extracting my old Subbuteo teams from the loft and putting them on a pitch laid carefully in a sand pit installed at vast expense in a greenhouse in the garden.
It looks pretty rubbish to be honest but no labourers were killed in the construction process due to being forced to work in inhumane conditions or undertake manual work outside in excessive heat (unlikely in the UK in November - even in the greenhouse). What's more, gay people are very welcome and if anyone wants to take some snapshots or selfies they will not be cautioned by Mrs G or threatened by any quasi-facist militia from the local bowling club.
I have also obtained exclusive marketing rights to blu-tak some slightly crumpled old pictures of David Beckham on the glass walls of the greenhouse for added atmosphere. Warm tins of Budweiser (official greenhouse sponsors) will be on sale between 6.30 pm and 6.32 pm on Saturdays for the special price of £10.99. Warm coca-cola will also be available and Under-16s will qualify for a special 10% discount if they are already clinically obese.
I did ask Mr Sepp Blatter , formerly of the FA, to open the event but apparently he is too busy drinking vintage champagne and snorting exotic substances in a six star hotel in the middle east to worry about modest grass roots football events like mine.
I even have some broken Airfix models to replicate Qatar Airways of course- they are the worst airline in the world, by some distance - including those early Chinese airlines from the 1990s with no pilots and Monarch who were really really bad.
Tickets from only £1,345-00 which includes accommodation in an old shipping container in a nearby pub car park and one complimentary bottle of Ambre Solaire sun tan lotion.
I think one thing is guaranteed, it’s going to be a hooligan free month of football. Qatari plastic chairs said to be giving off a huge sigh of relief.
Qatar/UAE has always been expensive for beer (unless you find the sneaky knock-off off-licenses) but let’s remember, thanks to truss etc., I paid £14 for a fucking tin of Heineken in a bar in NYC last week…
Qatar/UAE has always been expensive for beer (unless you find the sneaky knock-off off-licenses) but let’s remember, thanks to truss etc., I paid £14 for a fucking tin of Heineken in a bar in NYC last week…
Qatar/UAE has always been expensive for beer (unless you find the sneaky knock-off off-licenses) but let’s remember, thanks to truss etc., I paid £14 for a fucking tin of Heineken in a bar in NYC last week…
If the rate you got was say around 1.18 then that drink cost you $16.52
what was the highest rate last 6month or so - around 1.31?
if so that tin would have cost you £12.61 so not much difference in The grand scheme of things
After much thought, I have decicded to set up in direct competition with the Fake World Cup in Qatar by extracting my old Subbuteo teams from the loft and putting them on a pitch laid carefully in a sand pit installed at vast expense in a greenhouse in the garden.
It looks pretty rubbish to be honest but no labourers were killed in the construction process due to being forced to work in inhumane conditions or undertake manual work outside in excessive heat (unlikely in the UK in November - even in the greenhouse). What's more, gay people are very welcome and if anyone wants to take some snapshots or selfies they will not be cautioned by Mrs G or threatened by any quasi-facist militia from the local bowling club.
I have also obtained exclusive marketing rights to blu-tak some slightly crumpled old pictures of David Beckham on the glass walls of the greenhouse for added atmosphere. Warm tins of Budweiser (official greenhouse sponsors) will be on sale between 6.30 pm and 6.32 pm on Saturdays for the special price of £10.99. Warm coca-cola will also be available and Under-16s will qualify for a special 10% discount if they are already clinically obese.
I did ask Mr Sepp Blatter , formerly of the FA, to open the event but apparently he is too busy drinking vintage champagne and snorting exotic substances in a six star hotel in the middle east to worry about modest grass roots football events like mine.
I even have some broken Airfix models to replicate Qatar Airways of course- they are the worst airline in the world, by some distance - including those early Chinese airlines from the 1990s with no pilots and Monarch who were really really bad.
Tickets from only £1,345-00 which includes accommodation in an old shipping container in a nearby pub car park and one complimentary bottle of Ambre Solaire sun tan lotion.
There are happy hours in bars all over Doha that can be booked for daytime drinking.
I’m going to be in ‘The Red Lion’ prior to England/USA.
Thanks for the update Tom. Which hotel?
I’m staying in an apartment in a block near the West Bay - near the FanZone I think.
I've heard there's a bar in the Marriott - Champions Bar - which is supposed to be quite decent and good for watching sport. A mate has been to Doha 3-4 times on work trips and has been there a few times.
It's also in West Bay.
@QatarNapsy - is this a decent place or is my mate talking nonsense? Would we need to book to go there during the day?
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would love you and others to provide regular updates on how it’s going. I’m sure the vast majority of other posters would equally be interested
It's also in West Bay.
@QatarNapsy - is this a decent place or is my mate talking nonsense? Would we need to book to go there during the day?
It looks pretty rubbish to be honest but no labourers were killed in the construction process due to being forced to work in inhumane conditions or undertake manual work outside in excessive heat (unlikely in the UK in November - even in the greenhouse). What's more, gay people are very welcome and if anyone wants to take some snapshots or selfies they will not be cautioned by Mrs G or threatened by any quasi-facist militia from the local bowling club.
I have also obtained exclusive marketing rights to blu-tak some slightly crumpled old pictures of David Beckham on the glass walls of the greenhouse for added atmosphere. Warm tins of Budweiser (official greenhouse sponsors) will be on sale between 6.30 pm and 6.32 pm on Saturdays for the special price of £10.99. Warm coca-cola will also be available and Under-16s will qualify for a special 10% discount if they are already clinically obese.
I did ask Mr Sepp Blatter , formerly of the FA, to open the event but apparently he is too busy drinking vintage champagne and snorting exotic substances in a six star hotel in the middle east to worry about modest grass roots football events like mine.
I even have some broken Airfix models to replicate Qatar Airways of course- they are the worst airline in the world, by some distance - including those early Chinese airlines from the 1990s with no pilots and Monarch who were really really bad.
Tickets from only £1,345-00 which includes accommodation in an old shipping container in a nearby pub car park and one complimentary bottle of Ambre Solaire sun tan lotion.
Just pm me for details of the full rip off.
what was the highest rate last 6month or so - around 1.31?
if so that tin would have cost you £12.61 so not much difference in The grand scheme of things
Just put my life savings on draw HT/Qatar FT.
Hotels for sure will be serving all day.