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How can FIFA, FAs channel World Cup anger into real change for migrant workers in Qatar?

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Outrage can be a useful tool. It can clarify, it can focus, it can raise awareness and it can spur to action. It's less useful when it does a better job at making the outraged feel good about themselves than it does addressing whatever it is that outraged them in the first place.

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Plenty are outraged by the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. it was awarded back in 2010 under circumstances which were dubious at best and corrupt at worst, (read the Garcia report and make up your own mind) by a 24-man FIFA executive council (of those 24, two were prevented from voting because they were under investigation for corruption; 14 were later banned, formally accused, indicted or convicted of corruption or ethical breaches).