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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:Hugo Lloris is right. It shouldn't be on the players to shoulder the responsibility for this World Cup. It's a professional event for them that they might play in 4 or 5 of max in their career, for a lot of them they're lucky they get this 1. The last time Wales made it was 1958. If you want to get mad at people, start with the ex pros that are going there for pundit money or to put a star face on the tournament in exchange for sacks of cash, the national football associations that decided to take part anyway, the sponsors, kit manufacturers and obviously FIFA for this nakedly blatant product of utter corruption. I'm from a country for which this World Cup is the first time we've qualified in my lifetime, and I think you're spot on. I don't blame any of the Canadian players for going or for playing their hearts out, hopefully not literally, though I do hope that they make some kind of political statement while doing so. For some of them (Atiba Hutchinson is like 50 years old) this is the culmination of an entire lifetime of work and most likely their only chance to ever play in a World Cup. But yeah, what's Gary Neville's excuse? What's David Beckham's excuse? poo poo, what's Leo Messi's excuse for being a Qatar ambassador instead of just a regular player for Argentina? Lloris is right that it isn't the players' fault and at this point there's nothing they can do about it except some protests that will, in the end, be meaningless gestures. The fix was in 12 years ago. But I definitely do draw a line between people who are going to go play in a World Cup for sporting reasons and multimillionaires who see it as an opportunity to make some extra cash by sportswashing the slaveowning dictatorship.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 14:24 |
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im beginning to think this world cup has some problems
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Bea Nanner posted:im beginning to think this world cup has some problems hosed up if true
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 15:34 |
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Tokyo Sexwale posted:hosed up if t_rue
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 15:41 |
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I hope that players will use their stature to protest in some way at the World Cup but it's certainly not an obligation and I will not think less of individual players if they do not.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 16:10 |
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Feel like giving Mexico and the US a big total to chase won’t end brilliantly
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Tokyo Sexwale posted:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar boycotted those Olympics for similar reasons and the media destroyed his character and went after him for decades because of it. His career pretty obviously wasn't ended because of it but it definitely obliterated his public image for the rest of his career. They didn't destroy anything, not his public image or anything like that. He was a really sensitive, intelligent, introverted guy who happened to also be black as well as an athletic unicorn. He didn't fit in any paradigms the public had. It was too difficult for me to get enthusiastic about representing a country that refused to represent me or others of my color. Another reason I chose not to participate was my intense dislike for the International Olympic Committee’s president, Avery Brundage, who, during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, benched two Jewish runners so as not to embarrass Adolph Hitler by having Jews win a gold medal. Not only was this against the Olympic rules, but information has since been revealed that Brundage’s construction company was bidding for German contracts, which is why he was so eager to please Hitler. I couldn’t bring myself to work under the supervision of someone like that. America was angry at me for not showing gratitude to the country that had given me so many opportunities. I was grateful, but I also thought it disingenuous to show appreciation unless all people had the same opportunities. Just because I had made it to a lifeboat didn’t mean I could forget those who hadn’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSi6iF9kVBs&t=65s
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 17:34 |
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The current total is over five times that
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 18:05 |
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Also, I suspect those Brazil numbers are not entirely accurate. Didn't they bulldoze favelas to build this poo poo?
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 18:34 |
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https://twitter.com/SimonPeach/status/1592573164907032577 Seems the song has gotten a new tune
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/SimonPeach/status/1592573164907032577 big fan of the guy in the lower right 10 seconds in taking an upside down video
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 18:51 |
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This is just embarrassing. Surely they could have just subsidised flights so actual fans could have come? Or is it that there's no space for them so that shipping container fan accomodation is just repainted workers digs?
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:This is just embarrassing. Surely they could have just subsidised flights so actual fans could have come? Or is it that there's no space for them so that shipping container fan accomodation is just repainted workers digs? You can't force someone to get on a plane and spend 2 weeks in a hellhole like Qatar.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 18:54 |
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They paid the England band off and some of them are there as ambassadors
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Total Meatlove posted:They paid the England band off and some of them are there as ambassadors Perhaps there'll be some people emerging from holes in the ground as The Great Escape plays
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 19:12 |
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Everybody is aware of the score These scores have been seen previously
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 19:14 |
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I particularly like how they were too cheap to print the English flag on both sides
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Mickolution posted:Oh boy was he that. It turned out her actual crime was that she went out and had a drink in Berlin on a day she wasn't scheduled to compete.
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https://twitter.com/wc22updates/status/1592492531585286144?t=12Suox3x9E7tEjK2XEUckw&s=19 Lmao, better than a shipping container without AC I guess.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 20:14 |
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No toilets, showers or running water either. Those outhouses are gonna be disgusting.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 20:23 |
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strong Fyre Festival vibes
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 20:25 |
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Compared to that my university dorm room was a luxury suite.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 20:29 |
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Trying to sleep in my freezing tent in the middle of the desert while the rent a cops teargas a load of French ultras. Hanging up the do not disturb sign on my thin piece of cloth
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the sex ghost posted:Trying to sleep in my freezing tent in the middle of the desert while the rent a cops teargas a load of French ultras. Hanging up the do not disturb sign on my thin piece of cloth Just more time to tweet what a great, sober, time you're having at the greatest world cup of all time
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Just more time to tweet what a great, sober, time you're having at the greatest world cup of all time Brave of you to think that Twitter will last that long.
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the sex ghost posted:Trying to sleep in my freezing tent in the middle of the desert while the rent a cops teargas a load of French ultras. Hanging up the do not disturb sign on my thin piece of cloth Just like a waving door, a waving door… Total Meatlove fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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As a followup to the earlier discussion about pundits and retired players having no excuse for going to Qatar, even Philipp "The Super League is the future of football" Lahm says Qatar is poo poo and he won't go.
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vyelkin posted:As a followup to the earlier discussion about pundits and retired players having no excuse for going to Qatar, even Philipp "The Super League is the future of football" Lahm says Qatar is poo poo and he won't go. Maybe Muller can get him a job on his horse wanking farm
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the sex ghost posted:Trying to sleep in my freezing tent in the middle of the desert while the rent a cops teargas a load of French ultras. Hanging up the do not disturb sign on my thin piece of cloth So many ways this thing can go sideways.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 22:38 |
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danish tv got interrupted doing a live report from qatar by security guards wanting to smash their camera for filming in a public place https://streamja.com/62ky1
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 23:34 |
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God it's going to be the Sochi Winter Olympics all over again isn't it? Just sad devoid poo poo show, with a thin curtain trying to hide the horror. In other words a WWE Saudi show, only way way longer.
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Grimson posted:danish tv got interrupted doing a live report from qatar by security guards wanting to smash their camera for filming in a public place It begins. Just depressing viewing.
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# ? Nov 15, 2022 23:56 |
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I hope that all this poo poo helps shine an even brighter spotlight on how lovely the whole area is although I doubt it'd make a difference
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Alctel posted:I hope that all this poo poo helps shine an even brighter spotlight on how lovely the whole area is although I doubt it'd make a difference i doubt it, considering f1 still went through with the saudi race after the houthis blew up some oil storage tanks like 5km away from the circuit earlier this year
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quote:Gay Qataris physically abused then recruited as agents, campaigner says This is how the Stasi used to track down dissidents.
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Total Meatlove posted:They paid the England band off and some of them are there as ambassadors I was hoping they’d have immigrants recreate the band, too.
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blue footed boobie posted:I was hoping they’d have immigrants recreate the band, too. They did? https://twitter.com/footballramble/status/1592578792383709184?s=46&t=xfYHcfj9pNyV1lawh1m4-g
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:https://twitter.com/wc22updates/status/1592492531585286144?t=12Suox3x9E7tEjK2XEUckw&s=19 I'm the Mines of Moria entrance archway they painted on the unsecured tent flap.
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lmao that of all the names who've worn the England #7 jersey, that guy opted for his own name e; the guy wearing #9 as well
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