With due respect to the equally ecstatic first-time hosts from Russia, there can have been no more concentrated patch of euphoria and sheer disbelief per square metre in the world on Thursday night than in the Qatari capital of Doha. The city's iconic Corniche waterfront street was packed as always on major football occasions with honking, celebrating, incredulous Qataris and residents alike, but of course this was a celebration unlike any other.
