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Drunk tanks to become ‘sobering tents’ for intoxicated World Cup fans in Qatar

Martyn Ziegler
The Times

Fans who become drunk and disorderly at the Qatar World Cup will be put into “sobering tents” until they have recovered from the effects of the booze.

It is understood that the sobering tents will be used as a softly-softly approach to dealing with fans who have become intoxicated and have been involved in minor incidents or where there are concerns for their safety.

Organisers expect that with up to 200,000 international fans being in Doha, the capital, on any one day they will be faced with some challenging behaviour, and the sobering tents will be a way of dealing with drunk fans without them being arrested and put in jail.

Those who are taken into the tents will be kept there until they are