Qatar may have backhanded more spectacularly than most but you can't tell me that Russia 2018, and probably every host nation since FIFA got super greedy under Blatter and Havelange, haven't greased plenty of palms along the way as they eased their way to winning the vote. If it is taken away from them I wonder how FIFA plan on compensating Qatar for all the building work already done on premise that World Cup was heading to their way.
True enough, but at least these other recipients of FIFA's largesse, with the possible exception of the USA in 94, had some credibility as a footballing nation, whereas Qatar just doesn't...
