Earlier today, FIFA president Sepp Blatter started to get a little … weird on Twitter. His tweets went from “my thoughts are with the Dominica coach who died in a car accident” to I AM STEALING MONEY GO F**K YOURSELF QATAR pretty quickly, and shortly thereafter @FIFAWorldCup began tweeting about how FIFA executives had “held a meeting regarding the decision to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar” and that Blatter would “step down due to corruption charges.” That was followed by increasingly suspicious tweets as the next hour rolled on, but soccer guys are basically the weirdest people in sports, so we weren’t really sure if this was his account being hacked or Sepp settling into some weird scandal and/or mental fit.

Here’s a look at those tweets:

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We were certainly quick to call the decision to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar corrupt and ridiculous bullsh*t, but it turns out that the country’s deep-pocketed leaders may be on track to producing the most fan-friendly event in the history of the sport. While I’m not sure that you can beat people being bludgeoned with vuvuzelas for excitement, Qatar University scientists claim that in addition to featuring ice cold air conditioning in the stadium, they have also invented synthetic clouds that can cover the area and keep temperatures cool.

That’s right – they’ve invented a weather controlling device.

Saud Abdul Ghani, head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Qatar University, said: “Artificial cloud will move by remote control, made of 100% light carbonic materials, fuelled by four solar-powered engines and it will fly high to protect direct and indirect sun rays to control temperatures at the open playgrounds.” (Via ESPN Soccernet)

Ghani added: “MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

World Cup officials were initially concerned that Qatar’s summer season would be unbearably hot for visiting fans, and there have even been discussions of scheduling the World Cup in the winter instead of the summer. But then I imagine that Qatar’s president fanned them with a few stacks of money and said, “See? It’s not hot here, it’s perfect!”

So the announcements for two upcoming World Cups were made last night, and all of people that annoyed you with the World Cup over the summer are really bent out of shape about it. Jeez, people. It’s not like you idiots are actually going to the games. But if you are, I feel really bad for you. The word of Russia being chosen as the 2018 host wasn’t a huge surprise, but the 2022 Cup going to Qatar (pronounced Kuh-TARR) blew everyone away.

Despite its enormous wealth, Qatar is still a largely closed society, and its rulers are gambling that the Cup can do for it what 2002 did for South Korea. At that event, the Korean public was forced to interact with a world it had deep misgivings about, and the result was a rousing success.

FIFA also sees the tremendous growth potential in the Muslim world and recognized soccer must engage it. The sport is the most popular in the Arab world, but the grassroots development of the sport has lagged far behind. Thursday’s announcement is sure to change that.

–FOX Sports.

And it’s fun that “Quatar” is actually trending on Twitter. It’s really hard for us to drop that “u” from behind the “q,” apparently. Of course the Muslims have that figured out. Having all of that oil probably helps.