The Premier League are missing the bigger picture over Winter World Cup fury

Earlier in the week it was announced that the 2022 FIFA World Cup was going to be moved from the summer to the winter.


This has caused much anger from the major European league's, including the English Premier League, who will now have to re-organise their season come 2022.

Now I fully sympathise with the Premier League's predicament, but I have been amazed at the huge amount of reaction the change in date has produced, including many who have even branded it as a 'scandal'.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter announcing the 2022 World Cup to be in Qatar
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But I disagree. In the summer the temperature in Qatar can sometimes be as high as 45 degrees Celsius which is definitely not a suitable condition for footballers running around a pitch for 90 minutes in.

And there's other reasons as to why the move to winter is sensible too:


It is worth remembering after all that a summer world cup messes up loads of leagues all over the world.  Despite the fact that many of the players play in the European leagues,  football shouldn't be run for the benefit of the most powerful. The tournament is called the 'World Cup' not the 'European Cup'.

As well as this, a winter world cup could also help the England national team.  How often have we seen English players looked tired at a world cup? A winter world cup would see our players full rested, having only played just a few months of football leading up to the competition. Surely anything which will give our national team a better chance HAS to be something worth considering.

Zurich protest against 2022 World Cup location Qatar last October
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Finally, there is obviously more contentious issues surrounding this world cup than a rearrangement of the footballing calendar. There has been allegations of bribery by the Qatar football association and protest against the countries current treatment of women and homosexuals. But the most problematic factor concerning the World Cup being held in Qatar has to be the appalling situation with the migrant workers who are building the stadiums. Last year, Nepalese migrant workers were dying at a horrifying rate of 1 every two days. The fact that such a large amount of people are having their lives ended because they don't even have the basic human right to leave the country without their employer's permission, is simply diabolical. 

And that's the real scandal of the 2022 World Cup.