Qatar 2022

[Marty]

Scotland definitely in the most open group.

 

[hellava_tough]

I'll be boycotting this WC.

Got to draw the line somewhere.

 

[Yid-ol]

Can't wait to see 3 center backs and 2 holding CM players Vs San Marino!

 

[Tucker]

I'll be boycotting this WC.

Got to draw the line somewhere.

Me too, can’t get excited about it at all. I’d be quite happy if England didn’t qualify.

 

[Marty]

I'll be boycotting this WC.

Got to draw the line somewhere.

I wish I could but my employer has the TV rights here so I'll pretty much have to work on it whether I like it or not.

 

[EQP]

Kane vs Lewa is a good duel. Rest should be a cakewalk

So you're saying Southgate can get away with using just 3 RB's for those other games instead of his usual 4 RB's?

 

[Marty]

FFS three matches in March and in September

 

[ExpatFan]

I'll be boycotting this WC.

Got to draw the line somewhere.

Watched the 1962 final on TV, went to the '66 in person, watched every other final since on TV but won't be watching a single minute of this one. As you say, gotta draw the line somewhere.

 

[mark87]

 

[LSUY]

Qatar to join European qualifying for 2022 World Cup

"They will first face Luxembourg, Azerbaijan and Ireland in March before games with Serbia, Portugal and Luxembourg again in September. They will then face Portugal and Ireland in October before rounding off with Serbia and Azerbaijan in November."

 

[Mornstar]

I'll be boycotting this WC.

Got to draw the line somewhere.

Aww I'm sure the governing bodies of Qatar will have an absolute meltdown when they come across your post on this forum.

 

[wirE]

Unpopular opinion but I don't buy into to all this boycott of the WC that some are posting. I imagine when the WC start, most of us is gonna be watching regardless.

 

['O Zio]

Unpopular opinion but I don't buy into to all this boycott of the WC that some are posting. I imagine when the WC start, most of us is gonna be watching regardless.

Of course people will. On terms of boycotting the right thing to do would've been for the "big" nations to refuse to participate. A few random fans saying they're boycotting is just bollocks and nobody will care.

When it was awarded to Qatar, the big nations should've got behind the investigation into the corruption and when it became blatantly obvious how corrupt the voting was, they should've boycotted. There's plenty of grounds for it given how ridiculously unsuitable a host they are.

They even got a second chance to do it when it came out that the stadiums were being essentially built by slaves, some of whole were dying in the process. But nope, they all sat in silence.

At this stage it's definitely going ahead and will probably be a big success. They'll have state of the art stadiums, the big teams will all be there, everyone will be staying in luxury hotels, all the random no drinking laws etc will be relaxed etc. And everyone will conveniently forget about all the horrors of that horrific place temporarily because ultimately people are more bothered about their own enjoyment and making money than they are about doing the right thing.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I won't be watching it because of this shite:

Have 1,200 World Cup workers really died in Qatar?

The scandal surrounding Fifa has focused attention on the workers who have died building stadiums in Qatar - how reliable is the much-cited figure of 1,200 deaths?

www.bbc.co.uk

Human rights in Qatar

Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Qatar with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.

www.amnesty.org

Not to mention fucking up all our season's, just so some oil rich sheiks can sportswash their armpit of the desert, and wave their micro willy's at the other Arab nations.

Fuck this world cup, fuck FIFA, and fuck QATAR.

 

[ExpatFan]

Unpopular opinion but I don't buy into to all this boycott of the WC that some are posting. I imagine when the WC start, most of us is gonna be watching regardless.

Speak for yourself. I won't be, as I saw at first hand what a corrupt, venal bunch of aunts they are.

 

[Mornstar]

I won't be watching it because of this shite:

Have 1,200 World Cup workers really died in Qatar?

The scandal surrounding Fifa has focused attention on the workers who have died building stadiums in Qatar - how reliable is the much-cited figure of 1,200 deaths?

www.bbc.co.uk

Human rights in Qatar

Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Qatar with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.

www.amnesty.org

Not to mention fucking up all our season's, just so some oil rich sheiks can sportswash their armpit of the desert, and wave their micro willy's at the other Arab nations.

Fuck this world cup, fuck FIFA, and fuck QATAR.

I take it you didn't agree with the decision to give Qatar the world cup?

 

[Mornstar]

Speak for yourself. I won't be, as I saw at first hand what a corrupt, venal bunch of aunts they are.

As opposed to all the other nations that have previously hosted world cups where "corruption" simply doesn't exist?!

 

[Mornstar]

When it was awarded to Qatar, the big nations should've got behind the investigation into the corruption and when it became blatantly obvious how corrupt the voting was, they should've boycotted. There's plenty of grounds for it given how ridiculously unsuitable a host they are.

Yes, and I suspect this is because the so called 'big nations' all have governing bodies that are rife with corrupt people.

 

[Marty]

Yes, and I suspect this is because the so called 'big nations' all have governing bodies that are rife with corrupt people.

Obviously, Germany were done for corruption around the 2006 bid and in the Olympics Salt Lake City 2002 was as controversial and corrupt a bid as any other in Olympic history, which given the IOCs record is quite something so we can't pretend the West is sqeaky clean.

But all bidding corruption aside, Qatar have not only broken a promise that they would be able to stage a summer World Cup, which should be an automatic stripping of the event right there, but workers, and not just a couple of accidents but many, many workers, have died making these stadia. They have been living in appalling conditions and been worked to death by project leaders (i.e. the Qatari state) that doesn't give a shit about workers rights.

That is far worse than a corrupt bidding victory.

 

[Mornstar]

Obviously, Germany were done for corruption around the 2006 bid and in the Olympics Salt Lake City 2002 was as controversial and corrupt a bid as any other in Olympic history, which given the IOCs record is quite something so we can't pretend the West is sqeaky clean.

But all bidding corruption aside, Qatar have not only broken a promise that they would be able to stage a summer World Cup, which should be an automatic stripping of the event right there, but workers, and not just a couple of accidents but many, many workers, have died making these stadia. They have been living in appalling conditions and been worked to death by project leaders (i.e. the Qatari state) that doesn't give a shit about workers rights.

That is far worse than a corrupt bidding victory.

I appreciate the concern over foreign workers and I agree that their treatment is nothing short of horrific.......BUT the abuse of foreign workers is common practice throughout most of the Middle East (including in Saudi Arabia, UAE and even Israel!). It doesn't make it any more acceptable but I don't see why people use this particular stick to beat Qatar alone.

Secondly, I don't think people on this forum appreciate the plight of some of the asian workers who go to places like Qatar for work. Their situation back home is often desperate and they opt to work abroad knowing full well the risks they are taking. For most of them, the world cup in Qatar is a lifeline and provides an opportunity to support their families back home so that they don't have to go through the same vicious cycle of being exploited for labour. We need to get off our moral high horse and admit the reality that this world is horribly unjust and that people in other places don't enjoy the same privileges that we are used to.