The most hollow attempt at a protest ever.
They should boycott it. This actively says ‘**** the victims, we just want to look cool’
100% This is the ‘u ok hun?’ of protests.This is the corporate equivalent of a vague Facebook status that the poster pretends to refuse to elaborate on in public but also adds enough information in the comments so that everyone knows exactly what drama is unfolding.
Shame on anybody who turns their set on to find out the answer!What will the TV companies do with regards to the advert lead ins and interstitials?
In Brazil they had Samba dancers, Russia was St Petersburg skylines, I can’t remember but I imagine Japan and S.Korea was a bloke in a Gi doing martial arts to some stereotypical wind instrument music.
Are they going to have a jokey sketch of an adulteress being flogged or an Indian slave having his passport ripped up? Soundtracked by some soulful Arabic chanting?
That's Gary Neville's political message in a nutshellI heard an interesting take from Gary Neville about how football should use it as an opportunity to get Qatar to change their ways. That'll work for certain....
****ing NoraI heard an interesting take from Gary Neville about how football should use it as an opportunity to get Qatar to change their ways. That'll work for certain....
Spot on. You're in a philosophical mood today eh TedI don’t know how the BBC along with other outlets like The Guardian, having spent years promoting women’s sport and devoting a huge amount of time to reporting racism in sport and LGBT visibility, can square that with reporting on this tournament.
Football has to exist in a context that makes it entertaining, if that makes sense. There’s a reason you don’t get as excited for a friendly as a cup game. They can’t just report on the football in a vacuum. It is happening because of corruption and greed and a flagrant disregard for human rights.
The ‘where do you think your petrol comes from’ argument is one you see a lot now. We’re talking about a football tournament here though. We can live without it and we should go without it in this case. Soft power is still power.
I remember BN posting his feelings about King Power and it actually caused me to do a bit of research and rethink my attitude towards them. Made me question the times I gladly scoffed a free bit of cake outside the stands and the grieving for the Thai king stuff which I’d written off as a bit weird and nothing more.
If we went the way of Newcastle that would be it for me and I think anyone who feels like that should boycott the tournament. It’s one thing to feel apathy for football and swerve it but it’s another to stick to your morals. I feel for the people who have no choice but to work on reporting or staging the tournament. I’d feel sick about it but you need to pay the bills.
Boycotting will have ZERO effect but you’ll be doing the right thing. It’s all we ****ing have sometimes.
I don’t know how the BBC along with other outlets like The Guardian, having spent years promoting women’s sport and devoting a huge amount of time to reporting racism in sport and LGBT visibility, can square that with reporting on this tournament.
Football has to exist in a context that makes it entertaining, if that makes sense. There’s a reason you don’t get as excited for a friendly as a cup game. They can’t just report on the football in a vacuum. It is happening because of corruption and greed and a flagrant disregard for human rights.
The ‘where do you think your petrol comes from’ argument is one you see a lot now. We’re talking about a football tournament here though. We can live without it and we should go without it in this case. Soft power is still power.
I remember BN posting his feelings about King Power and it actually caused me to do a bit of research and rethink my attitude towards them. Made me question the times I gladly scoffed a free bit of cake outside the stands and the grieving for the Thai king stuff which I’d written off as a bit weird and nothing more.
If we went the way of Newcastle that would be it for me and I think anyone who feels like that should boycott the tournament. It’s one thing to feel apathy for football and swerve it but it’s another to stick to your morals. I feel for the people who have no choice but to work on reporting or staging the tournament. I’d feel sick about it but you need to pay the bills.
Boycotting will have ZERO effect but you’ll be doing the right thing. It’s all we ****ing have sometimes.
Thanks to the money KP pay to get negative publicity removed from the internet, well done for digging sufficiently.
...If we went the way of Newcastle that would be it for me and I think anyone who feels like that should boycott the tournament...
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Leicester | 45 | 97 |
2 | Ipswich | 45 | 93 |
3 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
7 | Hull City | 45 | 70 |
8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
9 | Coventry City | 45 | 64 |
10 | Preston | 45 | 63 |
11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |