Suspicions about the bizarre decision to bring the world’s best footballers to a very small country with an inhospitable climate and no football tradition have been widespread since the vote was taken 2011. But the revelations in the Sunday Times that a former Fifa vice-president and a figure close to the Qatari bid, Mohamed bin Hamman, made over €4 million in payments to former Fifa executive members have added significant substance to the belief that the vote for Qatar was questionable, if not corrupt.
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