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Argentina 🇦🇷 v Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 FIFA World Cup kick 10:00 ITV1 • ITVX • STV • STV Player

Howard the Duck said:
And Khashoggi's murder and their involvement in 9/11 and throwing homosexuals off buildings and so on and so on....? They should be international pariahs. Unfortunately money talks

Having said that, I probably wouldn't advocate banning them from competing in the World Cup but I sure as fuck wouldn't be going about speaking in their defence and wouldn't entertain for a second them hosting it in eight years which is what this is all building towards.
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Did you see Melissa Reddy reporting on SSN just after the opening game? The footage of Infantino loved up first with Putin, then with MBS? It's happening, if it's not already happened, Howy, son. The only way I can see international football cleansing (hmm, maybe not the best word choice, ha, ha) itself is by abolishing Fifa & starting again from scratch. Is that likely to happen? Not on your Nelly. For a nonprofit organisation Fifa makes an awful lot of profit.
 

Howard the Duck said:
You're doing the thing that Mags do. Offering completely false equivalences to try and justify the Saudi regime.

It's how sportswashing works. I didn't realise it initially and couldn't work out how bringing more of a spotlight on their regime with their investment in the sporting world would work favourably for them. But seeing how armies of fans fall over themselves to try and call out tenuous examples of hypocrisy I am starting to get it.

The idea is that soon nobody will criticise the Saudis as they have a Disney subscription or they live in a country that committed atrocities or was a bit backwards in its attitudes numerous decades ago. To do so would be hypocritical and therefore maybe the Saudis aren't so bad afterall.
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Look at his user name.. kSAFC or KSAfc?
 
Great when one of the World Cup minnows upset one of the giants,divvnt knaa any of KSA players but couldn’t see clogger o’Nien getting in that team
 
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washy tumbler said:
Great when one of the World Cup minnows upset one of the giants,divvnt knaa any of KSA players but couldn’t see clogger o’Nein getting in that team
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You must be delighted that your owner Mohammad bin Salman's boys won. Now we can completely forgot all the horrible things like murdering Jamal Khashoggi, bombing Yemen, crackdown on feminists and other human rights issues.

A bit like you lot do.
 
nelford_safc said:
If Saudi Arabia has beaten us they’d be endless amounts of whining about human rights, they shouldn’t own the mags, gay rights etc etc. Suddenly it’s all ok cos they beat Messi :oops:

Under no circumstances should anyone be rooting for Saudi f***ing Arabia. In anything.
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I've always held more of a dislike to Argentina than Saudi Arabia. The Argies don't care for us much either.

I'm glad Saudi Arabia won, I always root for the underdog anyway, but especially v the Argies.

Please don't tell people how to feel or think. It just comes across as patronising 👍
washy tumbler said:
Great when one of the World Cup minnows upset one of the giants,divvnt knaa any of KSA players but couldn’t see clogger o’Nien getting in that team
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You on the wind up here or what?
 
The Rat said:
Will keep saying it

“It’s only Iran” doesn’t quite work when you see results like this

Southgate doing an outstanding job, my non British mates are perplexed by the stick he gets
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Tbf, they probably haven't watched England the last couple of years. They have been the most tedious football games I can remember watching. I really hope this performance is a sign of how we are going to play in this tournament and if we do Southgate will get the credit he deserves.
 
SAFC 83 said:
Tbf, they probably haven't watched England the last couple of years. They have been the most tedious football games I can remember watching. I really hope this performance is a sign of how we are going to play in this tournament and if we do Southgate will get the credit he deserves.
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No they haven’t at all the euros and world cups were class and we scored a hatful in qualifying

An exact example of the type of person I’m talking about

The fact you still aren’t givi southgate credit already is hillarious

“the most tedious games I can remember watching” :lol: :lol:

I give up, England have never done better since 1966. Literally.
 
The Rat said:
No they haven’t at all the euros and world cups were class and we scored a hatful in qualifying

An exact example of the type of person I’m talking about

The fact you still aren’t givi southgate credit already is hillarious
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Do you know how long two years are?

If you've enjoyed watching that then good for you but it's obvious that on any subject if the like the person involved you'll go to any ridiculous lengths to defend them, if you don't like them you won't hear anything good said. We have been terrible to watch since half time at the Euro's final.

Also, I'm very happy to give Southgate credit. The problem here is you can't hear a single word of criticism.
 
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SAFC 83 said:
Do you know how long two years are?

If you've enjoyed watching that then good for you but it's obvious that on any subject if the like the person involved you'll go to any ridiculous lengths to defend them, if you don't like them you won't hear anything good said. We have been terrible to watch since half time at the Euro's.

Also, I'm very happy to give Southgate credit. The problem here is you can't hear a single word of criticism.
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Summer 2021 and the Euros is within the last two years...
 
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