Would you trust this newspaper?
By baldrick2dogs •
Khaleej Times, quality reporting!:
"Qatar is a small island ...."
Holy crap! have we drifted away from Saudi?
"population of something around 1.6 million"
Couldn't even be arsed to check the actual figure!
I couldn't dare read any further :o(
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/openspace/20...
What about it? A full stadium once a year? Great. What about the first league of Qatar? Empty stadias all around the year? What are you trying to tell me?
what about the Brazil Argentina match LP?
Actually a couple of fans were caught climbing over the stadium wall.
Security grabbed them by the collars and said,
"Now you just get back in there and watch the game till it finishes."
OK, It was Family Day. All the bachelors were watching from a rooftop behind the cameraman.
It is the absence of "absolute football enthusiasts" as falsely advertised by the newspaper. Therefore again, no, I don't trust any newspaper!
The captures are 2 weeks old, Baldrick. So, the heat is no excuse.
Yeah, those seats are reserved for visiting fans, but it's too far to travel ;o)
Ahh got it. My work computer is so old it doesn't always show stuff more complex than could be used in 1994. I don't have flash, so a lot of this I can't look at.
Are they blind???
its for the visitors LP
Work yourself through it, Pilgram. There are tables of people 'by nationalities.'
I was watching CNN sports the other day and they also called Qatar an Island...
Perhaps we're missing something ?
I'm not seeing the population numbers for Qatari's vs. non-Qatari's...
Here is the official number from the Statistics Authority:
1.638.644
And here is the website:
http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/qix/home
"There's a population of around 800,000 – the rest of the 1.7 million residents are foreigners, many Asian construction workers."
I'm not sure who's included in the "population" but the last I heard the local populations wasn't about 300,000 so unless they suddenly had a massive birth boom, I think the Guardian got its facts wrong.
They have a problem to define 'population', Pilgram. Qataris only, Arabs only, or what?
This is a great article, but since when was the local population at 800,000?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/dec/05/profile-sheikh-hamad-qatar
If that's the case, s_isale, then why do they have to build stadias with cooling for the spectators?
lol..LP..I think you caputured it all with that picture..:)
It is so hard to get a ticket for the QSL Qatar Star League matches. that no one can get a ticket for the match..So damn hard!
most of them like to watch the matches on tv in their majlis...
"People: The population may be small but the people of Qatar are absolute football enthusiasts and would see to it that every endeavour to host the event is a success and that no obstruction crosses its road-map."
And then this (football enthusiasts???)
or may be they were talking in terms of the globe going under next to Dubai????
Time to teach the reporters some English then...
Lol Baldrick.. Maybe some of the meanings got lost in Translation. Al Jazeera means an Island yet Qatar is a Peninsula!
I don't trust any newspaper.