They screwed up massively, and are now in full spin mode lying about what they did. Qatar will get a bad image? They fully deserve it for being unable to handle simple crowd control, botching it in all ways possible, and then unleashing riot police on families, children and women and confiscating documentation of the event. They brought this on themselves with the way they conducted themselves. Now, their image would look a lot better if they admitted that things were handled poorly, and vowed to make things better in 2022...but of course that's not the Qatar way. Instead, they continue to spin the PR wheels to make the Asia Cup look like a smashing success and ignore this FUBAR situation. With an attitude like that, they are destined for a complete disaster in 2022, except it will be harder to sweep under the rug like you would suggest.
They screwed up massively, and are now in full spin mode lying about what they did. Qatar will get a bad image? They fully deserve it for being unable to handle simple crowd control, botching it in all ways possible, and then unleashing riot police on families, children and women and confiscating documentation of the event. They brought this on themselves with the way they conducted themselves. Now, their image would look a lot better if they admitted that things were handled poorly, and vowed to make things better in 2022...but of course that's not the Qatar way. Instead, they continue to spin the PR wheels to make the Asia Cup look like a smashing success and ignore this FUBAR situation. With an attitude like that, they are destined for a complete disaster in 2022, except it will be harder to sweep under the rug like you would suggest.