The former head of fifa, the international football association, says it definitely was. all the same, on the 20th of november, the world cup football finals will start in the gulf state of qatar, despite its highly questionable human rights record, especially where women, transsexuals and gay people are concerned. qatar, for its part, insists it's made all sorts of changes to its laws and rules. but that's not all, of course. there have been all sorts of allegations of corruption in the awarding of the world cup finals to qatar, and the conditions under which the various stadiums were constru...