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Lostandfound
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Oct 2015 Status: Offline Points: 1122 |
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Interesting to hear all of that.
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Roberto_Carlow
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Jan 2019 Status: Offline Points: 1385 |
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Nice informative post Ibaraki. I haven't been to the middle East so can't really comment but maybe lack of people is it's the hottest time of year and they all dissappear? You would still expect some people about though.
Place does seem a bit soulless from your post and definitely not a great place for traditional football fans to attend the greatest football event there is. If Fifa were so desperate to get the WC to this area of the world it should have been spread around several countries in the region imo, with a one off winter world cup on the table from day one sold as a unique event, giving people the chance to travel about and explore the region. Holding the world cup in effectively one city is ridiculous and is all about money. Edited by Roberto_Carlow - 06 Sep 2022 at 1:28pm |
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ConorMac77
Ray Houghton Joined: 22 Apr 2015 Location: Newry Status: Offline Points: 3691 |
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Even when you look at it on Google Street View, it looks empty (though I'm aware of the caveat that it could have been recorded during the summer). I'd expect that it'll be busy when the World Cup is on but it certainly doesn't strike me as the sort of place I'd be in any rush to go back to at any other time.
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The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!!
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Deane
Liam Brady Joined: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 2945 |
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Even during chronic heat in Dubai's summer there are still a lot of people around.
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Paulie
Liam Brady Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 2977 |
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The description reminds of Astana. It's probably no coincidence that's a nothing city in the middle of nowhere too. I remember being in a bar a little bit outside of the city centre one evening. I decided at about 9 or 10 to get a cab into town as the photos of it at night looked pretty spectacular. I arrived in to the city centre and there wasn't a sinner around the place. No cars. No people. It was eerie as f**k. I eventually found a couple of security guards at a shopping centre who were able to order me a cab back. It was just a really odd place and possibly the only place I've been to on an Ireland trip that I wouldn't go back to if we drew them again.
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15748 |
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Very strange place indeed , did see one sign outside a restaurant with NO guns , Knives etc and NO Horses , just got me thinking did someone try and bring a horse into the joint before .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Ibaraki
500 Club la la la Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Status: Offline Points: 581 |
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We can’t blame FIFA on the following, but there’s no rivers, no lakes, no mountains, no trees and grass (apart from the odd man made park), no wildlife except pigeons and I seen a few cats.
I’m usually a big “come and get it” sign to the mosquitos in a hot country, but even those little bastards seem to have got up and left.
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Newryrep
Paul McGrath Just can't get enough of lists Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Status: Offline Points: 15257 |
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It does sound horrendously plastic
Happy to swerve it
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'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
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Mr. Snrub
Liam Brady Joined: 12 Mar 2016 Location: Co. Dublin Status: Offline Points: 2076 |
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Sounds like a god awful place. How anyone can even afford to go there is beyond me, you'd need to remortgage the gaff to spend a month in Doha.
Didn't Gary Neville do an expose and they are charging around £18 a pint in the hotels?!
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"Here's Robbie Keane...... yeeeessss! That is no more than Ireland deserve!"
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Borussia
Roy Keane Joined: 14 Oct 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 10750 |
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Well, it definitely wasn't David Beckham who is taking money from the Qataris
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Fatnacho
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 12 Feb 2016 Location: Dublin Status: Online Points: 190 |
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Didn't Gary Neville do an expose and they are charging around £18 a pint in the hotels?!
[/QUOTE] I suppose that makes the €17.50 for a hotdog at Gary’s hotel look cheap. I’d doubt he’d turn down the offer to open up a new Hotel Football in Doha if the opportunity arose.
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Deane
Liam Brady Joined: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 2945 |
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That sounds about right. Would have been the guts of £13 in Dubai as standard. With putting prices up for the event and probably cancelling happy hours I wouldn't be surprised.
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craiglen
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Anyone who goes to this is a soulless enabler of slavery and human misery.
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Fan's game record: 5 Caps, 1 goal, 2 assists, 140 km covered
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15748 |
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Yep that's the Showgrounds
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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