[Football] Qatar World Cup - Stadium porn

[wellquickwoody]

What a waste of the planets resources for 4 weeks of football

RIP 6.5k DEAD

Whilst factually correct, there is an awful lot of denying others what you already have about your post.

 

[keaton]

Whilst factually correct, there is an awful lot of denying others what you already have about your post.

So because Britain got rich from slavery and exploiting people other countries should be able to?

 

[Giraffe]

Been to several previous world cups and Euros. Won't be going to this one. I actually think they will put on an amazing world cup, and the stadiums do look great. It's also incredible how close the stadiums are to each other. You could potentially do 2-3 games a day!

But it is just wrong. Should never have been held there. There is no future benefit to that part of the world.

 

[wellquickwoody]

So because Britain got rich from slavery and exploiting people other countries should be able to?

Have a good signalling session

 

[Wozza]

Would have liked to have seen some countries boycott it.

Scotland have in their own way.

 

[BadFish]

Whilst factually correct, there is an awful lot of denying others what you already have about your post.

I have the ability to work without having to surrender my passport, live in shit accomodation or run the risk of dying. I would not deny others what I have and I am skeptical of supporting a regime that did.

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[hans kraay fan club]

Have the people who think this looks like a lady's bits, ever seen a naked woman?

It looks more like a frozen chicken!

 

[nicko31]

Never been less excited by a World Cup than this one. Everything about it sucks.

I'll follow England and that's it. Hope they do well enough to keep Southgate or the FA will be after Gpot

 

[Easy 10]

I've already decided I won't be watching a single minute of any of the matches.

Always a bit sceptical of these statements.

You'll still not watch if England reach a semi, or the World Cup Final ?

 

[Icy Gull]

Always a bit sceptical of these statements.

You'll still not watch if England reach a semi, or the World Cup Final ?

This my conundrum, I really don't want to watch. It's November/December, there is no PL football, it'll likely be shit weather and much as I'd like to boycott (and I would) I know it is unlikely that I'll stick to my guns. I will be more interested in the games with Albion players in because I really can't get excited about a Southgate team and expect nothing but eventual humiliation at whatever stage. I don't have this love affair with him that so many English fans do because of his past nearly moments. He is a very dull yes man, with no tactical awareness who used to play for Palace and is blind to Albion players.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Always a bit sceptical of these statements.

You'll still not watch if England reach a semi, or the World Cup Final ?

I know this is a hard ask to imagine given our last game was getting turned over 4-0 by Hungary but if England made the final it would be on the Sunday before Christmas. Kids would be off school on the Monday, loads of people off work too. It would be the mother of all piss ups. That lad who put the flare up his arse for the Euros would be just for starters.

That's not to say having a World Cup here is right by any stretch but I've given up being outraged and pretending I won't watch it. I am off to the firework and lighter shop instead.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

I have zero interest in the World Cup these days, and wont be watching - but those stadiums look amazing, externally.

 

[Simster]

Have a good signalling session

Write an absolute load of right wing shit, get pulled up for it, then bow out on your high horse without responding meaningfully.

Textbook you.

 

[Simster]

I'm not saying I won't watch a minute of it, but this is definitely the case for me too:

Never been less excited by a World Cup than this one. Everything about it sucks.

In all seriousness, what is there to like? Deaths on site, corruption, a humungous waste of resources, in a country with absolutely no human rights and no real football culture, disruption for most football countries. It is just one big clusterf**k.

That comedian who disrupted the announcement got it bang on - North Korea would seriously have been a better choice.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Always a bit sceptical of these statements.

You'll still not watch if England reach a semi, or the World Cup Final ?

You can be as sceptical as you like. Mrs WS said "but what if England get to the final ?" - Answer is still no. I value my morals over watching the England team play. So I re-iterate - I will NOT be watching ANY of the World Cup.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

In all seriousness, what is there to like? Deaths on site, corruption, a humungous waste of resources, in a country with absolutely no human rights and no real football culture, disruption for most football countries. It is just one big clusterf**k.

You are right in everything you say of course but in answer to the what is there to like question? Wall to wall football at peak Christmas drinking season. At that point, my double standards will well and truly kick in.

Don't get me wrong, it would have been 20 times better in the summer just gone in Australia but I've come round to the novelty of something different at a different time. Given it'll be cheaper to burn £50 notes on the fire than turn the boiler on and a fivers worth of fuel won't get you out the petrol station by Xmas, we might as well try and enjoy it.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Write an absolute load of right wing shit, get pulled up for it, then bow out on your high horse without responding meaningfully.

Textbook you.

Possibly so, or at least part of what you say.

I am far less right wing than you think, just not as judgemental as others maybe. No ifs or buts, this World Cup should not have been awarded to Qatar due to their appalling record on human rights and other questionable behaviour and practices. But it has.

I then find that lots of people will jump on a bandwagon late in the day highlighting issues that should have been made vociferously many years ago and a lengthy campaign carried out. Many of these latecomers will shout loud from the rooftops for the next couple of months without any realistic chance of making one bit of difference. They will posture and pose and point at those they are now blaming for the decision without once thinking about what they could have done. They will accuse and demonise any who do not hold identical views to their own, all the while saying that they will not participate/watch/purchase anything to do with the event.

The reality is that at no time will their holier than thou attitude be audited, how can it be? They will be free to do as they please in their own home, perhaps watching nothing more than news reports as the opening salvos of the tournament are fired. But as time goes by and the spectacular nature of the event unfolds, and the quality of the football improves as the lesser talented nations are sent packing they progress to just watching the late evening highlights package. By now the press have fallen silent about horror stories, preferring to tell of a hooligan free atmosphere due to a strong well organised security presence. Then England begin to spark into life and the home bbqs and parties commence, amazingly they are now through to the latter stages and a patriotic fervour sweeps the nation. ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’ beckons and shirts are bought, bunting is strung and pubs are packed etc etc

Excuse my cynicism, but an awful lot of people signalling anonymously online against the World Cup will be part of that whole change of attitude, as no one knows who the hell they were in real life.

 

[Klaas]

Possibly so, or at least part of what you say.

I am far less right wing than you think, just not as judgemental as others maybe

Which is funnier? The highly comical lack of self awareness, or that you then go on to post a load of judgemental claptrap?

I then find that lots of people will jump on a bandwagon late in the day highlighting issues that should have been made vociferously many years ago and a lengthy campaign carried out. Many of these latecomers will shout loud from the rooftops for the next couple of months without any realistic chance of making one bit of difference. They will posture and pose and point at those they are now blaming for the decision without once thinking about what they could have done. They will accuse and demonise any who do not hold identical views to their own, all the while saying that they will not participate/watch/purchase anything to do with the event.

The reality is that at no time will their holier than thou attitude be audited, how can it be? They will be free to do as they please in their own home, perhaps watching nothing more than news reports as the opening salvos of the tournament are fired. But as time goes by and the spectacular nature of the event unfolds, and the quality of the football improves as the lesser talented nations are sent packing they progress to just watching the late evening highlights package. By now the press have fallen silent about horror stories, preferring to tell of a hooligan free atmosphere due to a strong well organised security presence. Then England begin to spark into life and the home bbqs and parties commence, amazingly they are now through to the latter stages and a patriotic fervour sweeps the nation. ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’ beckons and shirts are bought, bunting is strung and pubs are packed etc etc

Excuse my cynicism, but an awful lot of people signalling anonymously online against the World Cup will be part of that whole change of attitude, as no one knows who the hell they were in real life.

This post is very you though. From accusing the Albion of being too 'politically correct' for supporting a cancer charity to getting annoyed about 'Jewish propaganda' going on about the holocaust, you seem hell bent on thinking it's you against a woke world of whiners.

 

[Easy 10]

You can be as sceptical as you like. Mrs WS said "but what if England get to the final ?" - Answer is still no. I value my morals over watching the England team play. So I re-iterate - I will NOT be watching ANY of the World Cup.

OK. Will stick you down for the Mrs Browns Boys Christmas special on the other side then.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The award of this World Cup to Qatar was, and remains, an utter scandal.

That won't stop me watching every single game, of it, though. I bloody LOVE the World Cup, and however unusual the timing and location of this one is, I'm not going to miss the actual games, in some pointless display of outrage.