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World Cup preview: What are England and Wales’ true hopes? Will this be Southgate’s swansong? Plus why Doha is still a ‘work in progress’

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The World Cup Is a Global Event

This is my sixth World Cup first one being back in 2002 and it's always revolved a lot of travel. I'm perfectly happy to put on the record here so I have some reservations about going to Qatar. Everything's within 35 miles we're not flying in from hundreds of miles away everyone's pretty much on top of each other. There are comparisons with an Olympics the way they're running part of it is it maybe along an Olympic model with a modular main center.

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