It's the "Woah!" from Farage that gets me.
EDIT: Oh, Infantino's gone off on one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63687412
Why apologise for a past you didn't write, Gianni? The migrant deaths are very fucking current.
Infantino opened by saying: "Today I have strong feelings. Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel African, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker."
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"I feel African, I feel gay, I feel-"
* dragged off stage *
Just when Ronaldo thought he had the week's soundbites all to himself, here comes Infantino saying the Qatar World Cup is good because he used to be ginger.
Originally Posted by Spikey M
@phonics
I love when complete morons like Infantino go off on grand historical rants. What we Europeans have been doing for 3000 years? What's that mate, inventing the modern world? Including, you know, The Football. Yeah, forshame on us. Would be much better if we'd never bothered with all that.
Grass.
The truth hurts, my little flower.
The Arab was talking to me about the World Cup yesterday. When I asked who he wanted to win, he said 'Lionel Messi'. Then he started going on about how Qatar wasn't to blame for the migrant worker deaths because the stadiums were built by Indian contractors (I have not fact checked this claim).
Earlier in the day, he'd been on at me about how he and most Arabs liked conspiracy theories. The one he always cites is how the people who built the pyramids were ten feet tall but European subjugation had since reduced heights in the region. That is how these people think. They need everything to be an American/Israeli conspiracy, because if it isn't then they might have to start being slightly introspective about the way they go about things.
Lad, can you calm down a little please, I haven't seen such misplaced outrage since a Belfast bakery refused to make a cake.
You have genuinely sounded a little unwell in the last few weeks, I would look at talking to a professional. That's not flippant, I'm serious.
He’s been on the ropes for years now.
It does feel like he's disappeared down a Middle-Eastern rabbithole recently though. He's gone from just trolling the gammons to taking offence to absolutely any mention of the Middle East / Arabian Peninsula.
That’s mental from Infantino, I thought it was a parody thing when I seen it first. One can only assume there are some nice men with hacksaws minding his family in the hotel at the minute.
Hardly the biggest sample pool.
He claimed to speak for them all, so who am I to doubt him.
Wait, did Bryan Swanson come out after Infantino's speech or was that a known thing?
Taz needs to get his leg over.
I don't know, but him coming out (to me at least) as FIFA's director of communications was a good laugh.
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That Infantino speech is actually a belter, wasn't aware he was such an intelligent thinker.
It's kinda weird seeing so much criticism of Qatar without anyone mentioning Islam. Qatar has dual civil and Shari'a law - all the stuff people are moaning about (except migrant deaths) basically stem the the Shari'a side.
I've tried.
He’s not. The Qataris gave him the notes.
Re Beckham, can we all agree, if we were offered millions of pounds by the Qatari gov to promote the World Cup, we would?
I certainly would.
None of us have a reputation to protect.
Speak for yourself mate. I'm legendary on this board.
Aren’t you a paeds SHO?
Lol as if actual psychiatrists exist.
Conflicting loyalties for young Declan there.
Is that actual Gerry Adams?
Some brilliant tweets on Qatar so far
£300 a night.
To be fair to Qatar there's no point building economy hotels as there will be no use for them afterwards.
Fucking rubes.
It’s what I will be specializing in
I’m shocked that this having the World Cup in Qatar thing is turning into a shambles already.
Which region are you in?It’s what I will be specializing in
One of the paeds trainees I work with did a secondment to CAMHs for six months recently. He said CAMHs provision is bad enough, but described the adult mental health service in this region as "one guy standing on the roof of Hellesdon hospital waving a white flag and crying".
Peninsula.
I’ve done about 10 weeks of psych placement over the last year and honestly it looks fine here. Admittedly CAMHS probably could do with a bit more funding but adult seems pretty good to me.
I think there's something that has been lost in the 'World Cup in Qatar' debate because all the focus is on things that can be easily slated, like gay rights, women's rights and migrant workers' rights. These things are a problem in many, many countries, including plenty that have hosted the World Cup before.
The real problem with having the World Cup in Qatar is that it's a tiny shithole with absolutely no capacity to host an event of this magnitude, except the money to bribe Jack Warner, Chuck Blazer et al for the hosting rights 12 years ago.
A World Cup in Egypt, Morocco, even the hated Saudi Arabia would be far more viable.
Yeah this region is the worst in the country.
I'll be honest, I don't really care about the migrant workers, booze, etc. My only beef is that we have a world cup in the winter during the build up to Christmas and half way through a season.
It's just odd.
I'm actually not minding that aspect of it. Club football bores me to tears at this point, and this is normally an unbearably miserable time of year in general.
Yeah I'm fully behind the scheduling, I get total football burnout by about April. Being able to watch a world cup while I'm still in stage of the season where I'm watching most live EPL games and listening to the odd podcast is great.
Not a Christmas fan? Or is it the dark afternoons and crap weather?
Imagine how much more unbearably miserable it is going to be after England CRASH OUT in ignominious fashion, or France win again.
Merry Christmas.
...or we win it and bring Christmas cheer to one and all. The positive feeling amongst the English public then has a positive impact on the UK economic market, and by January next year there is no cost of living crisis.
Christmas is alright, but it's the only saving grace between the clocks going back and, well, before them going forward again really.
The clock changing is bollocks to be fair. An archaic hang over, which does not serve any real purpose these days.
I wouldn't open my curtains to watch Qatar vs Ecuador normally, but I might give it a go to see if they execute any gays in the opening ceremony, and I'm away with work Monday and most of Tuesday so I think the first game I'll be able to watch is France vs Australia. YouTube has been unblocked on the work internet for some reason this week, so we might be able to get some games up in the office once we're back, like it's 2002 again.
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