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Hi,

 I am a Bristol City fan living and working in Qatar. Are there many City fans coming out to watch England? Be good to meet up with any City fans?

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Mark Lerwill

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Hi,

 I am a Bristol City fan living and working in Qatar. I am going to the England group games, and a few more. Are there many City fans coming out to Qatar?

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Mark Lerwill

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37 minutes ago, MarkQatar said:

Hi,

 I am a Bristol City fan living and working in Qatar. I am going to the England group games, and a few more. Are there many City fans coming out to Qatar?

Cheers

Mark Lerwill

Hi Mark, there is a small group of us who will be there for the group games, PM me if you want to meet up with fellow City fans :englandsmile4wf:

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17 minutes ago, bakes said:

Hi Mark, there is a small group of us who will be there for the group games, PM me if you want to meet up with fellow City fans :englandsmile4wf:

Worth highlighting until he's made a few posts he can't PM

It's to stop spamming and fake accounts 

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1 hour ago, North London Red said:

I'll be at the England games for as long as England stay in the tournament. Also have tickets for four other group games. 

Flying about half way tomorrow morning from London, and then onward to Doha on Saturday afternoon. 

Fair play to you...enjoy ???????

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7 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Popping over so might message you 

is all the hype about drink prices true ?

Yes, beer is Qatar is normally about 10GBP or more, so 50 Qatari Riyals. And there is only Budweiser available in the beer tents.

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8 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Anyone got tips on accommodation please? I'm thinking wait until the group stages are over and hopefully demand will be lower 

You have to get a Haya Card as well as accommodation, and match tickets before coming to Qatar. The rules are different for residents to get a match ticket.  We just have to have a Haya card to get a match ticket. Rules might change in December though. As for accommodation, there is big range of accommodation, from apartments, tents, cruise ships to hotels. Doha is small city, so everything is with fairly easy reach. Have you got anything potentially booked?

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9 hours ago, MarkQatar said:

Yes, beer is Qatar is normally about 10GBP or more, so 50 Qatari Riyals. And there is only Budweiser available in the beer tents.

Not anymore, sorry, it's all been stopped at the stadium by the authorities. Just on the news.

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24 minutes ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Not anymore, sorry, it's all been stopped at the stadium by the authorities. Just on the news.

I notice they only announced this AFTER everybody had booked and it was too late to back out, what a boring place to go to, if this fact had been known at the start I bet attendances would have been way down as if it wasn't a crap enough place to have a World cup now fans won't even be able to have a drink to celebrate or drown their sorrows.

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12 minutes ago, pillred said:

I notice they only announced this AFTER everybody had booked and it was too late to back out, what a boring place to go to, if this fact had been known at the start I bet attendances would have been way down as if it wasn't a crap enough place to have a World cup now fans won't even be able to have a drink to celebrate or drown their sorrows.

you can still drink at the fan zone, hotels, bars etc. It's only the stadium they've banned it.

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Just noticed that FIFA have now changed their minds 2 days before the tournament begins, regarding the serving of alcohol within the stadiums....so instead of the average supporter being allowed to enjoy a beer at extortionate  prices.......the only booze available will be served up to the corporate Fat Cats, in their Fat Cat corporate box's?.   Does FIFA's  hypocrisy really know no bounds?  Just another feather in the cap of these moron's who have been allowed to run the "people's game"....and that's a misnomer if i have ever heard one?  Ha!   I wonder if Queerta's morality police have had some influence on this?  But of course if you have buckets of Wonga you can probably do just about anything you want?   What a farce!

 

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3 hours ago, pillred said:

I notice they only announced this AFTER everybody had booked and it was too late to back out, what a boring place to go to, if this fact had been known at the start I bet attendances would have been way down as if it wasn't a crap enough place to have a World cup now fans won't even be able to have a drink to celebrate or drown their sorrows.

Why boring ?

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I don't know why people are so surprised at a booze ban in world cup stadiums, or for that matter so angry when most to have expressed anger won't be there anyway. It may come as a shock to many but it is actually possible to watch and enjoy a game of football without alcohol. As for the hypocrisy of FIFA in allowing drinking for the corporate punters that was a given wasn't it? 

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11 minutes ago, Bobby Bollax said:

£12 for a pint of Budweiser at the stadium is no loss surely. It’s not all about drinking 

Anyone who paid that amount for a beer would not only be an idiot but as its Budweiser, truly one of the worst beers in the world, display a, total lack of taste. 

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44 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Anyone who paid that amount for a beer would not only be an idiot but as its Budweiser, truly one of the worst beers in the world, display a, total lack of taste. 

Budweiser and taste is something of a contradiction in terms9

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1 hour ago, Bobby Bollax said:

£12 for a pint of Budweiser at the stadium is no loss surely. It’s not all about drinking 

It's sad for some that it seems it is.

It's even sadder that one poster on the forum has said they are  looking forward to riots for the same reason !!

I wonder if any will take in the Souqs, the Corniche or Purple Island and appreciate things instead of hitting the batter and acting like an uneducated maggot. ( no offense intended to the maggot )

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Budweiser, I agree, is not exactly real ale, but when it’s 32 degrees and you’ve traveled over desert by bus to get to the flippen ground, it would have gone down nicely, even at £12 for 500 mills. Good chap on the England Supporters Travel Club Facebook page has posted an exhaustive Doha drinking guide. I fly tomorrow. And on a strictly personal note, since this morning my growth is not a ‘tumour’ but a ‘cyst’, meaning that it’s not cancer and I’m apparently not going to die, although it seems that a chunk of my tongue may have to be chopped out. So if you’re at Gatwick’s South terminal around lunchtime tomorrow and you see a 50 something bloke lying on the carpet, laughing uncontrollably and swimming in Stella and his own urine, do say hello.

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1 hour ago, BigTone said:

It's even sadder that one poster on the forum has said they are  looking forward to riots for the same reason !!

It was a joke Big Man. 
Besides, I thought you had me on ignore. Never mind. 

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11 minutes ago, Bedred31 said:

Budweiser, I agree, is not exactly real ale, but when it’s 32 degrees and you’ve traveled over desert by bus to get to the flippen ground, it would have gone down nicely, even at £12 for 500 mills. Good chap on the England Supporters Travel Club Facebook page has posted an exhaustive Doha drinking guide. I fly tomorrow. And on a strictly personal note, since this morning my growth is not a ‘tumour’ but a ‘cyst’, meaning that it’s not cancer and I’m apparently not going to die, although it seems that a chunk of my tongue may have to be chopped out. So if you’re at Gatwick’s South terminal around lunchtime tomorrow and you see a 50 something bloke lying on the carpet, laughing uncontrollably and swimming in Stella and his own urine, do say hello.

Best wishes for your trip and upcoming health appointments.

Last time I was in Doha there was no alcohol at all (it being Ramadan didn't help,) but with a fine range of juices and soft drinks on offer this heavy drinker didn't miss it one bit. 

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5 hours ago, BigTone said:

Why boring ?

Well it's not exactly party central is it and that;s coming from somebody that's 66 years old, let's put it this way of a list of places to visit it would be fairly low down, homophobic, women treated as second class citizens, intolerant of other peoples beliefs, nothing but sand as far as the eye can see, hot as hell it's not just Qatar none of the middle Eastern countries hold any appeal to me.   

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4 hours ago, pillred said:

Well it's not exactly party central is it and that;s coming from somebody that's 66 years old, let's put it this way of a list of places to visit it would be fairly low down, homophobic, women treated as second class citizens, intolerant of other peoples beliefs, nothing but sand as far as the eye can see, hot as hell it's not just Qatar none of the middle Eastern countries hold any appeal to me.   

Obviously edited to fit their agenda but there was an interesting report on SSN last night into this 

They interviewed multiple supporters from many countries and all but one said they associate having a beer with friends and other supporters watching these types of games. The only person shown was an American, but as soon as he called it soccer I was done lol

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7 hours ago, pillred said:

Well it's not exactly party central is it and that;s coming from somebody that's 66 years old, let's put it this way of a list of places to visit it would be fairly low down, homophobic, women treated as second class citizens, intolerant of other peoples beliefs, nothing but sand as far as the eye can see, hot as hell it's not just Qatar none of the middle Eastern countries hold any appeal to me.   

On the contrary there is plenty to see.  I lived and worked in Saudi in both Riyadh & Jeddah and there was plenty to do and see and certainly not just sand for miles and miles.

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On 17/11/2022 at 23:49, sticks 1969 said:

Popping over so might message you 

is all the hype about drink prices true ?

Beers in a fanzone are around 45 QAR/ 10 GBP, Went to a fanzone last night, 900 Park. Decent pizzas, and a good range of drinks as well. 

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16 hours ago, MarcusX said:

you can still drink at the fan zone, hotels, bars etc. It's only the stadium they've banned it.

Was in a fanzone last night (Friday) and there were beers for around 10 GBP (Budweiser, Heineken and Corona) and wines and spirits

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On 17/11/2022 at 21:33, North London Red said:

I'll be at the England games for as long as England stay in the tournament. Also have tickets for four other group games. 

Flying about half way tomorrow morning from London, and then onward to Doha on Saturday afternoon. 

I'm going to 6 group games in total. 3 England games, and France v Australia, Ghana v South Korea and Serbia v Switzerland 

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16 hours ago, BigTone said:

On the contrary there is plenty to see.  I lived and worked in Saudi in both Riyadh & Jeddah and there was plenty to do and see and certainly not just sand for miles and miles.

:laugh:. One of my favorite quotes was ‘life is a shit sandwich and here in Jeddah the bread is very thin’.

I haven’t been east of Cyprus since the last time 1000s of troops were being dumped down there. But I have friends who live in various places in the ME, and they like it, as a lot of the City’s are much improved and really quite attractive. 

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On 19/11/2022 at 07:05, BigTone said:

On the contrary there is plenty to see.  I lived and worked in Saudi in both Riyadh & Jeddah and there was plenty to do and see and certainly not just sand for miles and miles.

Couldn't agree more.

Wouldn't believe everything you hear about the middle east, genuinely always enjoy heading there.

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5 hours ago, RedHienz said:

Couldn't agree more.

Wouldn't believe everything you hear about the middle east, genuinely always enjoy heading there.

Fair enough. 

Personally,  I thought Qatar was a total shithole but each to their own.

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