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FIFA can just gently caress off and I don't think this will be the last world cup I won't be watching. Saw some of the ITV documentary on Qatar tonight and it's downright heartbreaking the poo poo they've done to workers and people involved in promoting the country on the international stage even. From the part I saw and my old man memory: Someone from Jordan that worked on behalf of the Supreme Qatari Committee or whatever it's called in the media got disappeared because he wouldn't lie and say that migrant workers striking over having not being paid weren't working on World Cup stadiums, because they were A german journalist trying to get in contact with this guy realised he was being followed wherever he went The workers mentioned above began striking after 4 months of no pay whatsoever Someone that worked for the Discover Qatar tourist company for years promoting the country gave notice to then go and work for a Saudi tourism promotion company and got arrested on his next visit to Doha, imprisoned for 25 days, wherein was tortured, and eventually found hanged after being "released". The family have never been able to get a full account of events from the Qatari state. It's just loving appalling and it's as if Italia 90 had been awarded to Italy only the Mafia were in charge of everything. e: I realise from a hypocrisy perspective there were plenty of things I could have drawn a line in the sand for with the World Cup being in Russia or South Africa hell even Brazil. Which would be fair but that doesn't make my current disgust less valid and I wear I could have been this disgusted sooner.
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The Perfect Element posted:Ecuaphwoar? Saying it like the Sash track
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Pook Good Mook posted:They have somehow spent more than $200 billion dollars on this nonsense (not even counting the bribes), and $10 billion on stadiums and couldn't manage to build loving roofs and AC. Given the hotel workers had to search youtube for "how to properly chlorinate a swimming pool without dissolving swimmers" I'm expecting something to go horribly wrong in at least one of the stadiums during the tournament.
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Nov 10, 2022 19:35
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the sex ghost posted:FIFA world cup brought to you by dahir insaat whoever lifts the trophy they're gonna look like the Baddiel/Skinner bit with the bucket of custard from 3 lions 98
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Nov 10, 2022 19:41
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Just had a quick look at a weather ticker, highs of 30 (86) lows of 21 (69 nice) that first week.
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Nov 10, 2022 19:53
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Gigi Galli posted:I think it's supposed to just invoke the idea of written Arabic. However, just in case, out of respect...
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Vinestalk posted:Hugo lloris is a bitch 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 don't give a poo poo that Lisandro Martinez has gone off to play for Brazil at an international tournament. I do give a poo poo that former players like Gary Neville that have waxed lyrical on various political points and the Glazer ownership is not only doing punditry in Qatar, but doing it for Bein Sports. For those not in the know, Bein Sports is owned by Qatar and Neville's business puts him shoulder to shoulder with colleagues such as sacked from Sky in misogynistic disgrace Andy Gray and Richard Keys. I don't care Maguire's massive head is apparently worth its weight in gold to Gareth "Cowardly Lion" Southgate, I do care that David Beckham is getting wheelbarrows full of cash he doesn't need to to be an ambassador for the tournament. The players are victims of this tournament not the ones we should be expecting to do something about it now that people in far better positions have failed/not bothered to do so. 10 years ago the national FAs should have turned around and said "gently caress you we're not going if you hold it there" and stood firm. There was little appetite for that though because noted oval office and Qatar shill Platini was head of UEFA at the time and you'd need the big UEFA countries and South Americans to really hold FIFA's feet to the fire.
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The Kingfish posted:Hugo is right about that. Yeah if the armband thing is true he's guilty of being a bit of a coward because he doesn't want the hassle. The France team are in a funny position though because France have a big hard on for Qatar and the players will get zero loving backing from their FA. Kane will be fine, by contrast, the English FA are still mad they didn't get our bid through and they've started looking into England "fans" on the rumoured all expenses paid by Qatar trips, in return for reporting on anti Qatar talk/social media posts.
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Vinestalk posted:There's no responsibility on them to tangibly change anything, because everyone is aware they can't. But the idea that a player can't protest something at a sporting event is loving ridiculous. Unless Lloris is giving interviews saying he loving loves Qatar and likes the cut of their jib when it comes to politics, I don't give a solitary poo poo how he decides to separate or mix his politics with his professional career. e: fixed for idiocy NinpoEspiritoSanto fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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Zisky posted:The white guy in that picture, Peter Norman, was actually protesting by standing with them during the salute, and he also wore a human rights badge along with the other two. Ah then that's a big mea culpa for me and thank you for correcting me on that.
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Vinestalk posted:"presumed football fan," lol what's with this dig? Wasn't a dig at all, I was setting you up to speak to you as a football fan, as in "I presume going into this dialogue, you are a football fan".
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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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Jose posted:Can someone gas that stupid MLS thread I keep nearly clicking on trying to read world cup threads sorry, MLS may be wrong and an abomination but it's not illegal
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A Danish TV crew already had their kit smashed so it's not like we're just re-telling ghost stories that never happen
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/FootyScran/status/1592878355954937856?s=20&t=J7qvxrjJbjtS3QTJzPJ9Tg I'm the single cube of feta Average Lettuce posted:It does have an olive... No wait I'm this username/post combo
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Wazzerphuk posted:I am bald, I'm Qatari
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joepinetree posted:I really disagree with this take. It implies that the reason the WC is in Qatar is because some poor African nations voted for it despite objections by the more noble, but outvoted big countries. This isn't quite how the voting works, there were 22 representatives that voted according to this article and they were: Sepp Blatter (Switzerland), Julio Grondona (Argentina), Issa Hayatou (Cameroon), Chung Mong-joon (South Korea), Jack Warner (Trinidad and Tobago), Angel Maria Villar (Spain), Michel Platini (France), Geoff Thompson (England), Michel D'Hooghe (Belgium), Ricardo Teixeira (Brazil), Mohamed Bin Hammam (Qatar), Senes Erzik (Turkey), Chuck Blazer (United States), Worawi Makudi (Thailand), Nicolas Leoz (Paraguay), Junji Ogura (Japan), Marios Lefkaritis (Cyprus), Jacques Anouma (Ivory Coast), Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Rafael Salguero (Guatemala), Hany Abo Rida (Egypt), Vitaly Mutko (Russia). So it's not like all of UEFA voted for Qatar just because Platini did as there are other UEFA members there on that list.
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joepinetree posted:We don't know how each of them voted. But we do know that the three main people pushing for it were Teixeira, Grondona and Platini. We also know, because Blatter has said so, that Spain and Portugal helped organize vote trading so Qatar would help get votes for Portugal/Spain in 18 and Qatar 22. Oh sure sorry I wasn't saying you were wrong just clearing up that it wasn't voted per federation, rather worse than that. Saw that same article about Spain/Portugal when I tried to see if who voted for whom could be found.
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Dell_Zincht posted:How do you air condition an entire stadium? Very carefully
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Tortilla Maker posted:https://twitter.com/england/status/1593385999543013376?s=46&t=y4teOopJEksiQxgrCSneaw Benzema is out injured for France, which along with this has me wondering how many more issues players are going to have. Most of the top players play in Europe and there's been no opportunity to acclimate as there would normally be.
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Qatar treating projects like they're first year college A-Level assignments and leaving a two month piece of coursework until the night before only it's the biggest sporting tournament in the world
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Arivia posted:so wouldn't that still have them around for like a week and a half? since teams seem to get about three or four days off between games, and they have three games to play in their round-robin groups. What is hyperbole
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Arivia posted:i don't really pay much attention to football normally and i'm trying to figure out if i missed something, sorry Oh lol sorry no that's FLJ, assume posts are steeped in hyperbole at all times
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the sex ghost posted:The L slur is now banned in TRP. Leeds?
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webmeister posted:Qatartacus I am convinced Squires is either a TRP poster or lurker
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Perhaps they're just afraid of rainbows. I don't imagine you see them in a desert, or maybe they think Zippy is a demon
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njsykora posted:They’re Bungling the tournament at least. They've made a Rod for their own backs
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njsykora posted:Stadiums are George-ous though. I'm Freddy won't care
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I swear to god don't you dare start posting about Ukraine in here
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ilmucche posted:Wut *taps the sign*
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goatface posted:Or the Anglo-Celtic massive. Now I want it to be called this
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Nov 22, 2022 15:51
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Talk about the poo poo world cup/how poo poo Qatar is!!
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BBC coverage has been pretty good so far, they just did a bit at half time pointing out that the carbon neutral claim for this world cup is bullshit made of smoke, mirrors and book cooking lol
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The Kingfish posted:Ale, lager, wine, seltzer, rum, whiskey, tequilla,gin, vodka, etc. Ohh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Dannyyyy Booooy
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i say swears online posted:this post is racist (heavily pronouncing the H) what
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