IT was with both sadness and disbelief that I read the article on the World Cup by Graeme McGarry ("World Cup U-turn may cost Scotland, but it's a blessing", Herald Sport, May 24).
I had not quite realised the extent of the cost of human life involved in the erection of the World Cup stadia in Qatar.
Is the fact that it will have cost the loss of 4,000 lives surely not enough for the nations involved to have a whole rethink about how the venue decisions are made or is it now totally financially driven? Can we honestly watch this spectacle without a troubled conscience?
There is no humour at all in this subject, but it makes me wonder if there might be some officials somewhere in the upper echelons of FIFA who agree with the late Bill Shankly, who famously commented that football was more serious than life and death.
T Oakes,
Stonehaven.
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