You sit behind your keyboard with no problems other than your betting slips. No clue what happens in the world or maybe not even able to understand.
Don’t think someone like you should tell people what and when to criticize.
Its important to speak up now because the whole world is watching now.
Read that again if you did not understand the first time reading 
And when fairly respected countries like England and Australia are doing it, you know it’s fairly ingrained.
And yet after the world cup ends nothing wouldve changed in the Arab world and people like Harry Kane Alex Scott and even Gareth Southgate will go back to living their luxury lifestyles without a care in the world, all about wanting to make it about them when it suits them and the opportunity arises.
Problem with Britain is they love involving themselves in other cultures of live without looking at their own and how its perceived by their own people. Have a history of doing so.
The way FIFA are trying to drown out the OneLove message by creating a number of (yes, equally important) messages each round is sickening.
I’m fully on the ‘down with FIFA’ bandwagon on this week alone.
Very nice article @peterroberts 
. I totally get what they are saying. When I was a new graduate, I started my career in Hamad Teaching hospital in the early 1990s, there were very few female Qataris in healthcare who had been educated abroad. They had just started sending their girls abroad to get education and were allowed to drive. The Qataris are generally quite well travelled. The Qatari govt paid for all their education and accommodation. They are very good with their citizens. They are trying to improve the rights of the Labour force, they removed this sponsorship system which is a huge barrier removed, they know they have a long way to go, but small steps in the right direction.
What happens when you wear the armband two games in a row?
Two yellows and a ban?
2015 Men’s Handball World Cup in Qatar. Another sports washing event.
It’s not like Handball is a big thing in the Arabic world but they still finished second in that tournament.
Here is a link to the Qatari squad back then
Wonder why many of those names don’t sound arabic? That’s because back then it was easier in Handball to switch eligibility from one nation to another and those players were paid huge money to take a Qatari passport.
They still live in a world in which they believe they can buy success. Buy human beings. Buy whatever they want. And that’s pathetic.
The whataboutism is rampant and goes down some unfortunate routes of raising questions of anti arab sentiment, so lets ignore all of that and focus just on the football part. When Qatar first showed an inclination to bid, it was specified that they could only do so if they committed to it being a summer tournament. They said they understood and included solutions in their bid to deliver that tournament. No one believed them, which is why their bid was seen as such a joke. Yet they were given it, and then turned around 2 years later to admit what everyone already knew, that it was impossible. And so the entire world of football was overhauled on the basis of self-dealing decisions made by a small handful of already powerful men. Fuck them…it isn’t their game to sell like that.
The second they announced the tournament was moving the entire rest of the world should have said they werent going to participate and organized their tournament for the summer just gone.
We will find out tomorrow. If the ref tells Harry Kane he might receive a fine for wearing it he surely would keep it on.
If the ref tells him he’ll book him if he walks on the pitch with it then Kane will surely take it off - which would be completely understandable.
Ah some of us do actually care.
I have a transgender family member, who should be allowed to live without fear anywhere on the planet.
The Morgan Freeman show today doesn’t excuse the deaths of migrant workers, or wash away any feelings people have about the World Cup.
Won’t happen.
But wouldn’t it be brilliant if the entire team walked off when Harry Kane gets a yellow card.
But if you knew a country was opposed to that, you wouldn’t actively look to live there would you?
Also as cliche as it sounds we don’t live in an ideal world, transphobia does exist even in the UK.
And what if you’re born that way in a country like that? Also, just leaving is not a luxury everyone has.
I blame FIFA 100% on this World Cup with all the corruption that went on and having 2 World cup bids named at the same time. Something should have been done 10-12 years ago. It is too late now. Also, not one country really made an effort to boycott this World Cup, if they really wanted to.
Is it illegal in the UK?
To be transgender?
The other thing is, migrant workers deaths?
No then again the UK isn’t under strict rulings that religion dictates, but I refer back to my earlier argument…you wouldn’t seek livelihood in a country that opposes LGBT rights.
I will never pretend to know religious beliefs and what it says in the Qu’ran for example but I believe it’s only illegal for Muslims to be transgender in the Arab world & yes if you were a muslic caught in public then you’d risk punishment.
I love how this thread mixes TAN’s mutual fascination with sports and politics.
Plastic gutter cunts
But this fucking place was chosen for the greatest sports festival in the world.
And the great nations sweep blatant homophobia, deaths of workers, blatant corruption…
No trans or gay person would choose to live in the place, but surely they are entitled to attend the World Cup?
Without fear of arrest or intimidation or judgement.
And to be honest, you don’t get to tell anyone to forget whats happening and just focus on the football, because all of this is linked.