Last year we considered the relationship between construction projects and football and realised there are some similarities with their individual problems.

When football is on the television there are always former players who review the game, they explain what went wrong and how the game would have been so much different if they had been playing.

I have recently been working on a construction dispute in the Far East. The dispute had all the ingredients we have previously highlighted, poor records, poor performance, inadequate design and the parties were entrenched in their positions and not talking.

Did you see the recent World Cup from Brazil, if you didn’t it would take me until 2015 to write all about it. If you did you will appreciate that a picture tells a thousand words and watching the games on television is much easier than reading about it.

Over the past few months I have written about construction, football and how there are similarities between the two. I mean let’s face it, both are a game and I would suggest construction is more of a game than football.

Qatar is now embarking on the delivery of the first of its World Cup infrastructure projects, and it was good to see that earlier this month the first contract to build the Al Wakrah football stadium was awarded.