David Beckham believes the 2022 World Cup should be held in Qatar despite uncertainty over its hosting rights even as Swiss and US authorities are looking at claims of corruption in the bidding for both the 2018 (Russia) and 2022 events. According to Beckham  Whether it’s corrupt or not, those countries have been chosen and  people need to get behind that arguing that “It’s about bringing football to new countries.

In June a leading Fifa official said Russia and Qatar could lose the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if evidence emerges of bribery. Russia and Qatar have  since denied wrongdoing in their bidding processes and the official, Domenico Scala, said he had not seen evidence of corruption.