OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER AT THE WORLD CUP: The 2022 World Cup has been won by a nation whose fans walked out en masse at half-time of their first match against Ecuador.
The Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, which can hold up to 60,000 people, had thousands of empty seats approaching full-time as Qatari fans left with their team losing today.
There is something fascinating and ominous about dates. Remember the soothsayer’s foreboding of ‘the Ides of March’ in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar? When Qatar, one of the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, with all of whom India has historic ties of fr