People aren’t happy that Qatar’s 2022 World Cup may be played in winter instead of summer, mess up sports as a whole

Dec 18, 2010, 3:49 PM EDT

It’s all well and good that Qatar beat out the United States for the chance to host the 2022 World Cup except for one pretty major problem: It’s going to be so excruciatingly hot during the traditional June tournament date that it will be almost impossible to function like a normal human being without succumbing to a bout of general death. Proposed Qatar temperatures if the tournament is to be played in June fall around 120 degrees. Somebody probably should have considered that when the world went through the process of funneling down prospective host countries, eh?

Because of this, officials are rallying to change the tournament month to January, when temperatures are around a peachy 76 degrees. One of the reasons Qatar was able to win a bid was because they advertised the ‘climate controlled stadiums’ they were building to combat the weather, but there’s no guarantee they’ll actually work and that doesn’t fix the problem that players are going to pass out if they try and walk outside. Great job scheduling the World Cup on the Earth’s closest approximation of the Sun, fellas!

Unfortunately, scheduling the World Cup in January would make the English Premier League go through a one month delay which is alright to do if it’s happening to the WNBA but this is the number one sporting league in the world we’re talking about. They won’t be too happy about it. Pushing the World Cup to January will also conflict with the Winter Olympics which means they’ll have their hands full appeasing a bunch of slightly ticked off Canadians AND interfere with the NFL playoffs. There’s even a chance that the World Cup Final will fall on the same day as the Super Bowl. Talk about sensory overload. As you might expect, people aren’t happy about it including Blackpool manager/press conference clown Ian Holloway who let fly a rant of entertaining proportions that’s a must watch.

“They’re obviously so important,” Holloway says of Qatar, “that we have to change when we play our tournament. It’s so vital that they have our tournament, that belongs to the world — and I think I’m a world person, aren’t I? I come from England.” Yes, Ian. You are a world person. We’re just not sure what world that is yet.

There are so many gems in this video that it’s hard to highlight them all. From his affirmation that “heads would roll…seriously” if he were in charge to making sure we understand that he thinks Platini is “useless” to his brilliant Sepp Blatter impression (“Whot?”), Holloway puts in a masterful performance. And even concludes with a “happy Christmas.”