Jonathan Calvert on how Qatar bought the World Cup

How did a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terrorism risk and searing summer temperatures become the host for the 2022 World Cup? When the Sunday Times Insight team received a cache of documents from a whistleblower, the Qatari success soon developed into one of the greatest sporting scandals of our time.

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