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'Tattoos are not clothing': Qatar issues rules for visiting fans

Football fans must keep their shirts on and not be "visibly under the influence of alcohol" at World Cup stadiums in Qatar, organisers have said in a prepared code of conduct for the tournament.

The document adds: "The applicable event organiser may require ticket holders to stop using musical instruments if the sound emitting from the respective device interferes with event operations or the enjoyment of other ticket holders.

"Electronic, mechanical or manual devices that produce noise or other excessively loud sounds, such as vuvuzelas, whistles, loudspeakers etc heaters for drums are also prohibited."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=a0152fe87bff4b15901d66f4cca1019c
Wendy/England "band" ****ed then hopefully
 
Wendy/England "band" ****ed then hopefully

I know a Wednesday fan who would hope for that. He moved from where he sat for years at Hillsborough to get away from them. All Wednesday fans he knew couldn’t stand them. Or that fat ****er Tango Man.
 
'Tattoos are not clothing': Qatar issues rules for visiting fans

Football fans must keep their shirts on and not be "visibly under the influence of alcohol" at World Cup stadiums in Qatar, organisers have said in a prepared code of conduct for the tournament.

The document adds: "The applicable event organiser may require ticket holders to stop using musical instruments if the sound emitting from the respective device interferes with event operations or the enjoyment of other ticket holders.

"Electronic, mechanical or manual devices that produce noise or other excessively loud sounds, such as vuvuzelas, whistles, loudspeakers etc heaters for drums are also prohibited."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=a0152fe87bff4b15901d66f4cca1019c
Repercussions for warming your percussions...Whatever next?
 
So the press shouldn’t report on anything which isn’t hunky dory? It should be like Pravda in Soviet times where air crashes, the biggest football stadium disaster and other occurrences remained unknown to those unaffected by it?
It’s not about what they report, it’s HOW they report it. Twisting stories to get their angles across.
The way you jump on people on here, I’d suspect you’d fit in well with the journalists of the gutter press.
As I said in my original post, by the end of the WC, they’ll have something else to get underneath & start twisting it to make everyone get riled up over it.
 
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It’s not about what they report, it’s HOW they report it. Twisting stories to get their angles across.
The way you jump on people on here, I’d suspect you’d fit in well with the journalists of the gutter press.
As I said in my original post, by the end of the WC, they’ll have something else to get underneath & start twisting it to make everyone get riled up over it.

Yes, only report what fits in with your view of things. You will love the echo chamber of social media.
 
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Apparently some England fans have already been arrested for singing “get your face out for the lads” to a woman in a hijab <laugh>

You see to me that a total lack of respect for the country that you are visiting and deserve what they get. I certainly don't find it funny at all.

Yes Qatar have got so many problems and issues that have been reported and reported again.
 
Yes, only report what fits in with your view of things. You will love the echo chamber of social media.
You know what I mean.
Report FACTS, yes there’s too to be a lot of **** said about Qatar & this World Cup, but does it have anything to do with the football on the pitch?
Is it facts or opinions being reported?
 
You see to me that a total lack of respect for the country that you are visiting and deserve what they get. I certainly don't find it funny at all.

Yes Qatar have got so many problems and issues that have been reported and reported again.
That appears to have started as a “joke” on Twitter, but has taken up life because people believe it’s actually happened, with people outraged by it.
Although in the comments, many people saying it’s not actually possible, due to their rules on women working, so it’s either be a man or a foreign woman, Filipino.
As your in Qatar, what’s your opinion on it.
 
I didn't watch the first game, but looking at the reports I didn't miss much. It looks as if VARS is working well already, and trying to help the home side. Qatar now being the only host team to lose the first game just about sums up their level.
 
You see to me that a total lack of respect for the country that you are visiting and deserve what they get. I certainly don't find it funny at all.

Yes Qatar have got so many problems and issues that have been reported and reported again.

I'm not seeking argument here but I disagree.

Have we become so obsessed by political correctness that a fairly innocent joke causes outrage these days? I have to admit to finding it moderately amusing,in a humorous way,not as some sort of racist slur...

In these days of doom and gloom and cost of living issues,are we to simply stop smiling and cracking any kind of joke because there's a risk of upsetting a small minority?

What's the mandate here? The abolition of humour?
 
There's no feel good factor about this WC. Usually tournaments are in our summer time, so people have got the BBQ's going, it's shorts and t-shirt weather, their mates are coming round for a few beers and the cross of St. George is everywhere.

Today, it's freezing, I've got extra layers on and I'll be watching the game by myself with a cup of tea. And apart from in Morrisons yesterday, I haven't seen that many England flags around
 
I'm not seeking argument here but I disagree.

Have we become so obsessed by political correctness that a fairly innocent joke causes outrage these days? I have to admit to finding it moderately amusing,in a humorous way,not as some sort of racist slur...

In these days of doom and gloom and cost of living issues,are we to simply stop smiling and cracking any kind of joke because there's a risk of upsetting a small minority?

What's the mandate here? The abolition of humour?
I'm not seeking argument here but I disagree.

Have we become so obsessed by political correctness that a fairly innocent joke causes outrage these days? I have to admit to finding it moderately amusing,in a humorous way,not as some sort of racist slur...

In these days of doom and gloom and cost of living issues,are we to simply stop smiling and cracking any kind of joke because there's a risk of upsetting a small minority?

What's the mandate here? The abolition of humour?

Careful, don't want to upset the permanently offended brigade
 
Tied with Greenland for 53rd place? We can do better than that!

Yes. And just one place above the socialist paradise of Cuba where guns are not freely available and there is no crime because there is no poverty and everybody is happy.
 
You know what I mean.
Report FACTS, yes there’s too to be a lot of **** said about Qatar & this World Cup, but does it have anything to do with the football on the pitch?
Is it facts or opinions being reported?

Which facts about Qatar are you disputing?

Should those reporting on the football only voice facts not opinions about what happens on the pitch.