World Cup Qatar

Quoted from MarinerWY

Have I Got News for You last night is well worth a watch, Gary Neville was hosting and gets an absolute roasting for taking Qatari money to commentate out there. He absolutely squirmed.

Great watch primarily to see someone rightly called out for being a hypocrite and morally defunct when money is involved, but especially cos its the Salford 'buy success' sharp object Gary Neville

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Made me laugh to be honest, but he would have knew it was coming, he’s “marmite” Gary but he’s not thick.

The saddest thing is the world governing body preaches taking the game to new territories and forgets about inclusion when the check books come out? Try

This tournament follows,

Russia - Too many repressions to name, in fact looking at history since the 19th century it feels like it’s in their DNA, away from that a tournament awarded to a dictator.

Brazil - Now there’s another, poor human rights, corruption, severe poverty, poor healthcare etc etc…

I’m sure there’s more examples like Mexico who got it twice in 16 years?

The only way it would change is if the major countries broke away, which will never happen.

I wonder what the Qatari’s legacy pitch looked like?

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

I remember with the Brazil one broadcasters were told directly they weren't allowed to show the shanty towns or anything that would negative about Brazil

Quoted from Poojah

The more I think about it, the more it seems the absurdity of this World Cup has only just begun. It was awarded in 2010, which whilst only 12 years ago, is almost light years away from where we are culturally, in the western world at least, now.

Just last week we had foreign secretary James Cleverley not very cleverly advising gay fans to be a little bit less gay, or words to that effect, should they wish to travel to Qatar. In these times, making such comments about how gay people should conduct themselves on these shores would almost be a sackable offence, but I’m not sure what else can he say?

Advising fans to be themselves, only to find they end up getting locked up in their droves for up to 7 years, or even getting the death penalty should they have the audacity to be both gay and Muslim, is not an approach the government can take.

The decision to award Qatar the World Cup looked spectacularly moronic and corrupt in 2010, and it has only aged like milk since then as the values of most of the world has moved on while those in the Persian Gulf remain firmly in the Stone Age. Oh, and I’m not sure what feelings about the deaths of thousands of forced, migrant workers were in 2010, but I think it was least a little bit “uncool”.

Will I watch it? I honestly don’t know. I had similar if less strong feelings about the World Cup in Russia in 2018, only to find it quite enjoyable after they seemingly locked up all their meatheads for a month or at least paid them to keep out of the way. However successful that tournament was, the Russians have of course only showed themselves for what they truly are in the time since.

Two countries world renowned for their own unique brand of barbarism. Spin things how you like, the hosting of the World Cup in such countries has nothing about enlightenment or spreading the love of the beautiful game, it’s about money, corruption and the placating of profoundly evil and archaic regimes.

Actually, fúck it, I think I’ve convinced myself. I won’t be bothering with this shambolic circus of a tournament. The times we are living through are a reminder that there are more important things in life than football; values are possibly more important than ever right now.

Quoted from aldi_01

the World Cup is amazing  

Quoted from Rick12

If you haven't already Aldi check the current world soccer magazine edition. All about the world cup squad lists , tactical analysis and  interviews with differing journalists worldwide on their  respective teams chances in the world cup. Excellent guide to the tournament.

Quoted from mirrorballman

This. I'm past all that "I respect that others may choose to watch" as well. Anyone giving this farce or its sponsors the time of day is part of the problem, having a moan about the turd sandwich and scoffing it anyway. Guess what will get served next time.