World Cup 2022: The Problem Is Qatar, Not Blatter

Everyone is UP IN ARMS!!! about some bloke from FIFA making a light-hearted quip about how gay men should behave when the World Cup is held in Qatar.
'When asked if he foresaw any cultural problems, [Sepp] Blatter, apparently joking, said: "I'd say they [gay fans] should refrain from any sexual activities," BBC reports - you can watch a video report on their site.
Cue boorish laughter from some reactionary bores.
He did immediately qualify this with a more serious and thoughtful comment;
"You see in the Middle East the opening of this culture, it's another culture because it's another religion, but in football we have no boundaries.
"We open everything to everybody and I think there shall not be any discrimination against any human beings be it on this side or that side, be it left, right or whatever.
"If they want to watch a match somewhere in Qatar 2022, I'm sure they will be admitted to such matches...
"I think there is too much concern for a competition that will be done only in 12 years.
"But this gives me the opportunity to say that in Fifa, and this is in the statutes of Fifa, whether it is in politics, whether it is in religion, we don't want racism, and we know what this means, and neither do we want discrimination.
"What we want is just to open this game to everybody and open it to all cultures and this is what we are doing in 2022."
There were still all the usual howls of affected outrage.
This month's Fagburn Fashanu Award for the quickest that an article about The Gays In Sport mentions Justin Fashanu goes to this from The Guardian by Richard Williams;
'The ugly prejudice that casts a shadow over the beautiful game - Twenty years after Justin Fashanu came out football remains out of step with the real world'
Fagburn has written before how he feels hosting the World Cup in a state where homosexuality is still against the law, such as Qatar, is insulting and wrong, wrong, wrong, and how strange it was how some journalists acted as apologists for Qatar.
Fagburn guesses it's good that media folk are getting angry about the FIFA bloke's comment.
So why was there less ink spilled over the more patently anti-gay Qatar than there has been over Blatter?
A clue may be in yesterday's Open Door column in The Guardian.
In November The Guardian ran an appalling puff piece masquerading as "Comment" on why Qatar was the greatest country in the world and really should win the World Cup bid, Why the heat is on Fifa to give the 2022 World Cup to Qatar
The paper has had to apolgise as at no point was it mentioned that the journalist, Louise Gray, had just been on a freebie holiday to the human rights abusing but oil rich gulf state paid for by the Qatari government to get journalists to support its bid.
Oops!
If you read any further apologias for Qatar in the media, or if you see any writer getting slightly mealy-mouthed about this hellish shit state, bear in mind the hack may be thinking whilst they're writing; "I better not be too harsh, I might get a free holiday out of these cunts..."
Journalism - it's prostitution by pen.