Premier League chairman, Sir David Richards, said it would make “common sense” for the Qatar 2022 World Cup to be switched from a summer tournament to a winter one, promoting his management to issue a statement contradicting the position of its own chairman.
Speaking at the Securing Sport conference in Doha, the outgoing chairman said while there are currently no plans to switch to the tournament to a winter event, he hoped there would be some compromise in the future.
“At the moment it has a tremendous amount of implications for Europe. For us, at this minute, the answer is ‘no’. But, if we take a proper view, we have to find a way to have a winter spell where we don’t play and I think common sense will prevail," said Richards.
“We’ve got FIFA now saying that medical people are saying that they can't play in Qatar in the summer because of the heat, which is probably right. Over the next few years, things will change and they will come to a compromise,” he said.
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