Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
You make a good point., I could perfectly understand the UAE tourist board marketing itself to football supporters - they sit right in the middle of their target market. Uneducated, vulgar cretins, happy to eat microwaved generic 'food' served in blinged up mausolea of taste in between slobbing out in a desert of concrete next to a pit filled with eye-stinging chemicals.

Trying to attract the sort of traveller who is happy to work through discomfort, fear and pain to experience nature in the raw and immerse himself in entirely alien cultures seems to me a big ask at a football match.
Just soooooooooooo easy

And a wiley AWIMB veteran likes Charles, as well.