The Doha Diary: Robbie Keane and legends keep moving to a minimum

FAR CRY: Nasser al-Khater, the chief executive of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 organisation. Pic: Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images

The half-time entertainment has been an eclectic mix here, a veritable shuffle of Alan Partridge’s old iPod. From Republica to Chesney Hawkes and Toploader the pitchside acts haven’t quite hit the mark.

On Tuesday night at the Argentina-Croatia semi-final it was the turn of The Mad Stuntman from Reel to Real who banged out his 1993 one-hit wonder I Like To Move It. The rapper had been invited a part of FIFA’s #BringTheMoves initiative and the wider Be Active campaign to target childhood obesity.