Poor England wouldn't see the light of day in a major tournament and that's before you think of opposition fans going undercover to harm others. All in all, awful idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke Emia
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Poor England wouldn't see the light of day in a major tournament and that's before you think of opposition fans going undercover to harm others. All in all, awful idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke Emia
I see no issue with that. England fans have been some of the worst for it in terms of general behaviour which always makes this hand wringing somewhat ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
And the FAs have caved.
Good show lads.
I hope Gareth at least has a rainbow waistcoat.
Pathetic.
At the end of the day, we've come here to win a football tournament . . .
Good to see our political grandstanding is at the same level as our major tournament performance.
That’s some bottle job and it’s not even kicked off yet. Just doing it for the publicity like every other country.
Very disappointing.
That was all too easy. Chicken shits.
Who’d have thought England could get even less likeable.
So we've done the beer, we've done the rainbow iconography [interesting to see how that's policed on fans], what's next? Hot dogs?
Seb Vettel put the rainbow on his helmet in Saudi Arabia ffs. At this point it's the Qataris playing games.
It's all flexing and they're going to get away with it all. I'm not even sure a team would be allowed to fuck off if one decided to at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Of course they will get away with it, it's too late for anyone to do anything about it now. They just accepted all our demands and now fuck them off at the 11th hour, showing their real power. Not unlike the Saudi takeover of Newcastle, a lot of teams are compromised on the sly with political deals so couldn't pull out if they wanted to.
Has to be said, they are nailing the fuck out of it. The power of the brown envelope lives on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
As was pointed out on I think the Guardian, or whatever I was listening to last night, FIFA's relationship with Qatar as hosts seems to be completely different to FIFA's relationship with all previous hosts (where FIFA basically call the shots and take over the country for the duration of the tournament).
The Qataris have paid good money for this in bungs and want their money's worth in full.
Yep. I remember reading the list of conditions hosting this thing normally comes with a while back and the Qataris seem to have managed to cross out a fuck load of it.
If anything comes from this hopefully it will be proving to FIFA that you can't allow host to use the World Cup for sportswashing purposes. Because if you go to these authoritarian states things like this whereby the rules are changed at the last minute will happen and once one country gets away with it they will all think that they can. The Bud thing being a prime example no one would have given a shit if 12 years ago Qatar had said there won't be any sales in the venues but the fact that they are changing the rules now should be warning to any sports governing body.
Infantino is all in on this shit, the brown envelope is massive. Next one will be in occupied Ukraine.
Oh and on the sportswashing front, which never sat well with me as an explanation for all of this shit, someone pointed out to me that instead of that they’re using every means at their disposal to maintain their standing in the World as they know full well once the oil runs out they’ll be utterly irrelevant. Makes much more sense, to me anyway.
My interest in this World Cup was already at an all time low, but this shit is sucking any remaining sense of joy out of this. The game is gone. Politics and business have finally ruined it.
Fuckers were dishing out bans and fines for Palestinian flags for decades but now look at the tears. Chin up, lads.
Palestine are worthy of support, Qatar aren't.
That medicine sure is bitter but get it down you, it'll all be fine.
I forgot it's that time of year where Mahow tries to convince everyone (and himself) that he's not English.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Giving that terrible new Baddiel & Skinner song its tenth spin already. Let's do this. :drool:
Best post you've ever made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
We just need an early goal and we'll be fine. If no early goal, it'll be a horrible grind.
I’m going for an eye bleeding 0-0, with some quite excellent shithousery from the Iranians.
England will wallop the useless cunts.
Justice for Jude's second L.
The person responsible for teams being listed in squad number rather than position order deserves to be sent to Doha dressed all in rainbow with a kilo of cocaine in their anus.
I'm English but I don't support the English football team and all the dickheads in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
Shearer with "It would have made a huge statement" is today's candidate for lol punditry. And Gary absolutely seething at everything is nice too.
It's virtual signaling at it's best. Ultimately it means nothing so may as well just get on with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Which people in it are dickheads?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Yeah these lot need knocking off their peddle stools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
Oops.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Gareth is spineless.
The phrase virtue signalling is often overused and nearly as bad as “woke” and “gammon”, but in this case I can’t think of any other way that better describes what’s happened/happening.
Admittedly this squad for the tournament is a little light on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
At least Alex Scott is wearing the One Love armband. Makes all the difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
The useless bitch picked up the armband out the bin and wore it pitchside :D
Has she been yellow carded?
I have to say, I'm not big on rainbow flags and all that kind of stuff, it's so easy to do without having to back it up. Joe Root saying to Shannon Gabriel on the pitch 'there's nothing wrong with being gay' was 100x more powerful than any symbol.
Of course, on the flip side, if the Qataris are going to scream and cry like little girls at the idea of some men wearing multi-coloured armbands while in their country, then they are no better and probably far worse.
I've turned off the build up. I'll switch on at 12:59. Can't cope with Mark Chapman musing whether the seats being far away from pitch like the London Stadium will be the fine margin that plunges us into trouble against fucking Iran.
Seems to be utter chaos outside the ground with the ticket scanners not working.
That'll be the scousers again.
Then you wouldn’t support any team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Why wouldn't I?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles