I'm also thinking back to when Qatar was awarded the WC and immediate reaction to them getting it. Iirc it was mostly about it being held in winter, how that would fck up the season, and that it was going to be too hot and therefore ridiculous to give it to them. I don't remember LGBTQ being the big outrage at the time.
But it's these countries religious beliefs and laws, so we have to respect that. Like we have to respect their stance on alcohol. So when it comes down to it then, the only thing we have any stance on is the treatment of immigrant workers.
I agree we have to respect it, I've not got a problem with their rules, I'll sit at home and watch it on the comfort of my sofa, with a shandy in hand. #sucky Personally I don't know what all the fuss is over with alcohol, surely fans can go without for a couple hours during the match.
Yes, they can. So on a similar basis, there shouldn't be a fuss about the stance on LGBGT. Surely the gays can just not go, right? Respect the host and that.
As for gays, surely they can go without holding hands for as long as their respective country is in the world cup, why are we trying to antagonise Qatar beliefs.
Just posted above about it. I don't get the fuss, surely gays can behave themselves for a few weeks, in the same way hetrosexual couples will have too.
Well it's not ideal drinking it outdoor in 40 degree heat either. Which would then be kind of moot considering the way workers were treated in Brazil and the numbers that died there building WC stadiums. My thinking is you either have a consistent approach to condemning all, or condemn none. And I'm talking about the media and public as much as FIFA. Although tbf to FIFA, they are consistent - anything goes as long as you can pay for it... and fck the rest of it.
Think the problem with the World Cup in Qatar is that it was promoted as a normal summer tournament even tho none of us thought that would be possible and at last minute it was changed to a winter tournament which has caused major problems to our season in the Premier League and the Championship
England captain Leah Williamson says she "hasn't got any interest" in watching this year's World Cup in Qatar. Get back in the kitchen daft cow
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has accused the West of "hypocrisy" in its reporting about Qatar's human rights record on the eve of the World Cup. Infantino said: "I am European. For what we have been doing for 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons. "If Europe really care about the destiny of these people, they can create legal channels - like Qatar did - where a number of these workers can come to Europe to work. Give them some future, some hope. "This one-sided moral lesson is just hypocrisy. I wonder why no-one recognises the progress made here since 2016. "It is not easy to take the critics of a decision that was made 12 years ago. Qatar is ready, it will be the best World Cup ever. "I don't have to defend Qatar, they can defend themselves. I defend football."
During our membership of the EU, workers on farms and lorry drivers were all exploited, worked long hours, paid shhite wages by greedy farmers, the conditions they worked in were often poor, and you were lucky if any supplied accomodation was anything more than a shed. Maybe we forgot about the Chinese cockle picker deaths, maybe we forgot that other county's will not help Kent with migrant crisis, so much so KCC is predicted to be bankrupt within the next two years. Maybe we didn't think that cheap food prices we had in supermarkets for years, were due to the labour we exploited. Maybe we just forget about the poor when we buy a three k pushbike with a basket on the front.
