Great post. I feel a little bit 'dirty' now saying I might watch some of the England games, really I should just give the whole thing a swerve. Regardless though I DO wish the broadcasters weren't being quite so enthusiastic; they're all running trailers about how great it's going to be. I wish they'd treat it more like a party political broadcast, i.e. as something they have to do rather than something that we all want to see.As I won't be watching this World Cup, it's a zero.
I look forward to the next competition, although TBH I'm a) fed up with some of these competitions they make us play and b) despondent at Southgate's boring football, the most it will get lifted to is a 5.
But for now, I'd urge as many as possible to turn their back on this competition. Qatar is not a footballing nation, it has stolen this competition. Many fans can not be themselves in Qatar (being a little less gay is not an option). The number of workers who have died building the infrastructure is an abomination (it's not the 37 claimed by the Qataris and may not be the 6500 claimed by The Guardian, but the Pakistani mission has reported the deaths 800+ have died.
Meanwhile on January 26, 2022, FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino said at the European Council in Strasbourg that only three workers died in construction of football stadiums for World Cup 2022 in Qatar. He said: “When I hear today that 6,500 people died in the building of football stadiums in Qatar, it is simply not true. Because the real figures are three people who passed away.” FIFA is still the corrupt and blind organisation that is has always been.
Sadly, according to France 24 The Guardia are wrong, as they think the death toll could be higher.
‘Just hell’: New book shines light on migrant deaths ahead of Qatar World Cup
Less than three weeks before the tournament kicks off, the Qatar World Cup remains shrouded in controversy – largely due to the deaths of migrants constructing the stadiums under dreadful conditions.…www.france24.com
And here is a real human story, from a worker whose family was asked to pay for the repatriation of the body.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/nation...g-qatar-world-cup-project-report-1155209.html
There is lots of lovely non-league football on during the World Cup. Please consider watching that instead.
I really feel for fans who are torn and wouldn't dream of judging anyone that does watch. After all, it's supposed to be our game and organisations like FIFA allow regimes like Qatar and others to ride roughshod over it in the interests of money.
[Football] How’s your England mojo?
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cheshunt seagull
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Couldn't be lower. Watching games played in the graveyards of other 6,000 workers seems so wrong.
Taybha
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It's never been better,to see Gareth has included Dunk Webster and England's best non striking striker Welbz is just amazing,I can't wait to see them play in our final group game before we fly home
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Mackenzie
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Perhaps I should have said England rather than our, it is a bit ambiguous.
portlock seagull
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Never felt less interested in WC than this one. Wouldn’t even know it’s on in less than 2 weeks had not been for NSC. Nothing feels right about it, won’t be watching.
Just more saturation for the worlds greediest, most corrupt ‘sport’
Just more saturation for the worlds greediest, most corrupt ‘sport’
nicko31
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England mojo 5.
Still have a decent team but feel our chance has now gone.
Please note the game in England will still continue in League One and Two, a good antidote for those than don't want watch this Qatari farce of a tournament
Still have a decent team but feel our chance has now gone.
Please note the game in England will still continue in League One and Two, a good antidote for those than don't want watch this Qatari farce of a tournament
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Gary Neville was mugged into presenting HIGNFY last Friday and of course the WC came up. Hislop brought up the "elephant in the room"; Neville is taking the Qatari blood money to go and broadcast claiming his options were "to stay home and do nothing" or "go to Qatar and bring up my objections". Hislop took him down with "You know, there is another option. Don't go and raise your objections".
Neville likes to pretend he is a left-wing "man of the people" but in reality, he is just another greedy bastard.
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Neville likes to pretend he is a left-wing "man of the people" but in reality, he is just another greedy bastard.
HIGNFY's Ian Hislop Goes In On Guest Host Gary Neville For Accepting Qatar World Cup Role
"It’s just not a very good defence.”
deletebeepbeepbeep
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Rock bottom but have decided I won't be watching the WC in any case.
nicko31
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RoastedGary Neville was mugged into presenting HIGNFY last Friday and of course the WC came up. Hislop brought up the "elephant in the room"; Neville is taking the Qatari blood money to go and broadcast claiming his options were "to stay home and do nothing" or "go to Qatar and bring up my objections". Hislop took him down with "You know, there is another option. Don't go and raise your objections".
Neville likes to pretend he is a left-wing "man of the people" but in reality, he is just another greedy bastard.
HIGNFY's Ian Hislop Goes In On Guest Host Gary Neville For Accepting Qatar World Cup Role
"It’s just not a very good defence.”
I have found both the players and the supporters a difficult to like/support for many years. Not interested in them in the slightest.
macbeth
Dismembered
obviously I'll be backing england but tbh I don't really feel any connection to this england side whatsoever. it's pretty much just a who's who of the top 6 with a few players from 'big clubs that aren't actually big anymore' thrown in. it's very difficult to go from watching the likes of kane be diving cheats week in week out and then have to get behind them just because they're from the same country as me. throw into the mix that the tournament is being held in a backwards medieval hellhole, which has no business hosting a world cup, and I'm really not excited. I'll still watch it though. a whole month in autumn without football would just be cruel.
Comrade Sam
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I have no England mojo. Maybe if Webster, Dunk and Welbeck play. My Ecuador mojo is at 8 though.
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A Semi-Final Super Over exit. Just to keep up with the footballers.
I keep forgetting the Qatar thingy is on. I have so little interest. That's not by choice, I just genuinely haven't considered it much.
I'm sure I'll watch it when it's on. But it does feel like a Quarter Final exit as standard.
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It's coming home....
Whitley Bayster
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Not as good as my Ecuador mojo! Much more excited by how they will do with so many of our team involved
*puts on devil's advocate hat*As I won't be watching this World Cup, it's a zero.
I look forward to the next competition, although TBH I'm a) fed up with some of these competitions they make us play and b) despondent at Southgate's boring football, the most it will get lifted to is a 5.
But for now, I'd urge as many as possible to turn their back on this competition. Qatar is not a footballing nation, it has stolen this competition. Many fans can not be themselves in Qatar (being a little less gay is not an option). The number of workers who have died building the infrastructure is an abomination (it's not the 37 claimed by the Qataris and may not be the 6500 claimed by The Guardian, but the Pakistani mission has reported the deaths 800+ have died.
Meanwhile on January 26, 2022, FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino said at the European Council in Strasbourg that only three workers died in construction of football stadiums for World Cup 2022 in Qatar. He said: “When I hear today that 6,500 people died in the building of football stadiums in Qatar, it is simply not true. Because the real figures are three people who passed away.” FIFA is still the corrupt and blind organisation that is has always been.
Sadly, according to France 24 The Guardia are wrong, as they think the death toll could be higher.
‘Just hell’: New book shines light on migrant deaths ahead of Qatar World Cup
Less than three weeks before the tournament kicks off, the Qatar World Cup remains shrouded in controversy – largely due to the deaths of migrants constructing the stadiums under dreadful conditions.…
And here is a real human story, from a worker whose family was asked to pay for the repatriation of the body.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/nation...g-qatar-world-cup-project-report-1155209.html
There is lots of lovely non-league football on during the World Cup. Please consider watching that instead.
I really feel for fans who are torn and wouldn't dream of judging anyone that does watch. After all, it's supposed to be our game and organisations like FIFA allow regimes like Qatar and others to ride roughshod over it in the interests of money.
Yes, this is probably whataboutery, and doesn't make Qatar any more palatable, but what about the last two major tournaments? Russia was legitimised to the world and stage managed a tournament so that their far right hoolies were kept off the street, but less than four years after it they were committing horrible war crimes in Ukraine.
In 2021, meanwhile, despite global warming and Covid, a tournament was trucked round the whole of Europe, including Italy that now has a fascist government and Hungary where they also crack down on minorities, especially LGBTQ+ people. The final was played out to the scenes of cocaine fuelled anarchy in London, and I don't just mean in the Houses of Parliament.
By all means consider Qatar worse if you want but FIFA and UEFA have been shown to be exactly what they are for a very long time and people have mostly watched. Personally, I'm going to watch the games because England, the only team I've ever supported other than Brighton, are playing and some of our best players are playing for Ecuador and Japan, who I can now consider other teams I'd like to do well. It's winter, it's cold and dark and I'd like to have a beer, a takeaway and watch some sport. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. Not as bad as Putin, Orban or Johnson though, right?
*takes hat off again*