Grendel
Well-Known Member
Egypt has the same laws doesn’t it?
Qatar
Exactly.Egypt?
Roughly 0.016% of the country obtains a visa to visit Qatar each year. I'd bet most have family ties or business interests over there. I don't think based on those numbers you can conclude that "We" are happy to go on holiday there.
Exactly.
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I wouldn't expect our Government or FIFA to do anything of course. But maybe some teams with more enlightened Government support might walk out if things go badly in Qatar.
Well our Government talks about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and is very keen to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Of European countries only Belarus doesn't sign up to the Convention so I think it is safe to say that there are many countries' Governments who are more concerned about human rights than ours.our government? Lol I’m sure every other government is outraged at going there
Guess you are refusing to watch any of the tournament then?
Well our Government talks about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and is very keen to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Of European countries only Belarus doesn't sign up to the Convention so I think it is safe to say that there are many countries' Governments who are more concerned about human rights than ours.
Probably a shit take, but adding Spain to the list of squads that look a bit underwhelming. Both them and Germany look a bit piss compared to normal for me.
I flew with Etihad once and watched Bohemian Rhapsody and they edited out any kind of reference to Mercury's relationships with men, it was a farce. There are likely going to be players there who are gay, yet their sexuality isn't tolerated - it's time to stop pandering to these 'rules' and call it what it is - bigotry and discrimination.Qatar Airways handled 1.6 million passengers on the London to Doha routes back in 2019 (pre-pandemic and not including the other UK airports which also had a fair number of travellers). I would say from my experience that around 80% of people travelling to Qatar seem go through it and transit somewhere else, but even so. It is still money in the coffers as the airline is state owned.
You want to add the other middle eastern nations in (including the UAE and therefore Dubai where many people do holiday), and you have a hell of a lot of people willing to financially contribute to these sort of countries. Where do you draw the line on that as appropriate or not? Someone taking the cheapest flight (which to Asia often is Qatar Airways)? A week all-inclusive at The Palm? 'Happy to holiday' is a bit of a red herring I think.
At least you didn't choose My Beautiful Laundrette.I flew with Etihad once and watched Bohemian Rhapsody and they edited out any kind of reference to Mercury's relationships with men, it was a farce. There are likely going to be players there who are gay, yet their sexuality isn't tolerated - it's time to stop pandering to these 'rules' and call it what it is - bigotry and discrimination.
One question I wanted to ask was, will any Championship clubs have players playing in the tournament (I guess they will have) and will any clubs have games postponed as a result?
On Monday Clive was saying that if the 3 players Reading have at the World Cup all make it to the semi finals (Canada/Senegal/Ghana), our game could be postponed, but think that's pretty unlikely!
We play Reading on QFs weekend so surely a decision will be made after the 2nd round matches?
CheersAhh fair enough, it might have been the second round then and I misheard. You're probably right
2.45 on this video. Looks like they paid some people to sing 'It's coming home'.
They have haven't they?
I'm sorry but I believe the notion of spreading the sport to be based purely on marketing opportunities for large commercial enterprises not for football and basically the world cup should go between South America and Europe with 1 in 5 going elsewhere.It's also frustrating me how long we have to wait for a proper European world cup again too.
Germany '06 was great but then we have to wait two turns minimum before we can have it again, so South Africa - Brazil. Then they give the next European one to Russia which is barely a European country and certainly not within the spirit of 1 in 3 in Europe. So now we have to do Qatar - US (who, along with Mexico, have had it twice since England) and wait until 2030 for the Europe one.
At that point it will already be 24 years since a proper Europe world cup, now the only bid for 2030 that European is Spain-Portugal. They have to go up against Argentina-Chile-Uruguay-Paraguay plus a solo big from Morocco.
I just want a proper enclosed tournament in a football mad powerhouse. It doesn't have to even be here, give it to Spain or Italy or something but it's a fucking trek waiting for them.
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