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Boycott Qatar

Geronimo said:
Why don't the players , who seem to take up any other self-publicising cause, start saying that they're not going ?
Probably because they'll lose a fortune in salary and sponsorship deals.
Hypocrites. All of them
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In fairness some have protested the human rights abuses.
The Hesford Diet said:
Didn't take long for the racists to derail the thread into being offended by the knee being taken.
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It does raise the valid point that they can no longer hide behind the 'sports and politics are separate' line.
 
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Herr Lipp said:
100% this - they've been happy to take the plaudits, which were rightly given, for taking the moral high ground on blm and other political issues - let's see where they stand when it really matters and it's going to hurt them in the pocket.

The fact this is going ahead is a disgrace, both in terms of how it was awarded and the subsequent deaths of migrant workers. Let's see if their lives matter, or maybe as Henry Winter suggests they can wear a t shirt or send a strongly worded letter.

There were similar noises about the Russian World Cup but Gary and the boys on the BBC couldn't have had a nicer welcome apparently.
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I was wholly unconvinced the kneeling was anything but political theatre, that cost them nothing. But was always willing to concede, the moral high ground they're certainly did occupy very stridently. The progressive left were right alongside them every step of the way and reinforced the political action, but that was also denied.

What amuses me greatly is if the world cup was in Israel, you can be certain the left would be decrying the team. But the left is not ignorant and are wholly aware of the Qataris, but simply don't care and the money men have no intention of rocking the boat and the volume of hypocrisy is appalling and amusing to me.
 
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Emcon said:
I was wholly unconvinced the kneeling was anything but political theatre, that cost them nothing. But was always willing to concede, the moral high ground they're certainly did occupy very stridently. The progressive left were right alongside them every step of the way and reinforced the political action, but that was also denied.

What amuses me greatly is if the world cup was in Israel, you can be certain the left would be decrying the team. But the left is not ignorant and are wholly aware of the Qataris, but simply don't care and the money men have no intention of rocking the boat and the volume of hypocrisy is appalling and amusing to me.
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who is this 'left' you are referring to?

i bet you almost every single normal person, who has left leaning politics, would absolutely support wholeheartedly any boycott of the qatar world cup.
Mackem00 said:
"You think" :lol:
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i noticed he hasn't answered me on that one. apparently if you are racially abused you aren't allowed to bring it to attention otherwise you are playing politics
 
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tunstallhill said:
who is this 'left' you are referring to?

i bet you almost every single normal person, who has left leaning politics, would absolutely support wholeheartedly any boycott of the qatar world cup.


i noticed he hasn't answered me on that one. apparently if you are racially abused you aren't allowed to bring it to attention otherwise you are playing politics
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Then drop the desperation to get at the other side and join the campaign, I think we all need to boycott this shower of s***e and say the money men do not get to control the game without consequences.
 
CEF said:
They can stick their world cup up their arse. Seriously considering boycotting the whole thing.
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I won't be watching it at all.
Geronimo said:
Why don't the players , who seem to take up any other self-publicising cause, start saying that they're not going ?
Probably because they'll lose a fortune in salary and sponsorship deals.
Hypocrites. All of them
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Yup. Most of them are not very bright though, in mitigation.
 
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Emcon said:
Then drop the desperation to get at the other side and join the campaign, I think we all need to boycott this shower of s***e and say the money men do not get to control the game without consequences.
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Get at what side ? I've said on evert single thread on the subject for years that I'd support any boycott.

But I am entitled to reply to posts that are wrongly labelling the England players protesting against Thier team mates bring racially abused online as 'politics' . It has fuck all to do with politics.

I'd be amazed if any of the England players could tell you the first thing about politics. They saw thier mates bring racially abused so decided to make a gesture to highlight it. They even released an official statement through the FA telling the world what they were doing and why. The only people who try to link it to politics are the people that for some strange reason are anti-anti-rascist gestures

Likewise, if we can separate the quatar world cup boycott from politics, it would be massively beneficial. It's not an issue of politics, it's an issue of ethics, morals, right v wrong, the people Vs the establishment etc.. it's something that pretty much all people of all political persuasions would unite on.
 
Professor Yaffle said:
There comes a time when most people say 'enough' in any given situation. I think that time is arriving now, or at least I hope so. The moral gymnastics being performed by people who just want to watch the world cup are exactly the same as those being performed by Newcastle supporters to excuse the actions of the Saudis. As a Newcastle supporter myself I find it hard to stomach the hypocrisy. People up in arms about Newcastle and KSA (and rightly so, it's disgraceful) but the very same people will be supporting their team in the World Cup. If you really want to do something then boycott this tournament. 6500 worker deaths during the construction. Many workers have been left unpaid. There are umpteen tales of workers having their passports taken from them upon arrival in Qatar and no chance of getting them returned until they complete the job. They are being held in captivity to all intents and purposes. At the end of the contract they will be paid (if they are lucky) and given their passports back, then booted out of the country. Most of the workers are Indian and Fillipino. The exploitation is horrendous and there have been many suicides as a result. The World Cup should never have been given to them in the first place, but once it was then it should have been used as an opportunity to highlight and change these conditions. It's absolutely the right thing to do to turn our backs on this tournament. People like Beckham, already obscenely rich, taking another 100m or thereabouts to cover it all up with a bit of gloss are repulsive. The beautiful game my arse.
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Views on the Chinese tennis player out of interest?
 
Talksport today.

Murphy said when he played he would not give a gnats ass about a country human rights.

Jordan agreed with him.

White the saudi hoop licker argued with them about their uninterest

Hypocrisy is rife. 2 mins listening was enough for me.
 
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