Maybe they are counting the ghosts of the dead construction workers as well. See, they’re getting respect and to officially attend the tournee as well. Pat’s on the back for the great organising committee
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Well, La’eeb, the Mascot of the World Cup is a ghost, isn’t he?
The Ghost of Human Rights Past.
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All of the ad’s appear to be ‘FIFA ad’s" so it may well be out of SBS’ hands. The only non-FIFA ad’s I’ve seen are advertising SBS programs.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there is a condition on the broadcast rights that the ad’s have to be from official sponsors.
The hits keep coming from this backwards shithole:
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Next round of World Cup/Asian Cup qualifiers, when we’re inevitably drawn against this cesspit of a nation, we should have a giant rainbow TIFO spread across the Terrus Australia (or whatever it’s called now). The FFA should be giving out free little rainbow flags to all patrons attending.
Hold a protest outside the Qatar teams hotel, with rainbow flags, essentially just host a Mardi Gras out the front.
And just to really rub it home, hold a minute’s silence for all the workers that lost their lives for this World Cup.
FIFA will probably ban us from international football but fuck it would be worth it.
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Absolutely they are FIFA ads. FIFA sells the exclusive advertising, broadcasting and licensing rights for the most watched television event on the planet. The Russian world cup generated them $4.6 billion. Their overheads are minimal and as a non-profit organisation they probably don’t pay a whole lot in tax.
Their anthem gets the Uruguay treatment, no doubt.
Might be a bit misguided, like holding the socceroos to account for Scomo/Albo. And much like the socceroos, half the squad have been naturalised for the sake of playing international football and probably don’t give two fucks about the politics.
Ehsan Haksafi is a hero
I see what your saying, but despite their many obvious faults as “representatives” of this country, neither have the blood of six and a half thousand migrant workers on their hands. Neither Abbott nor Scomo (despite them probably advocating for it if they were born 100 years earlier) have brought in migrant workers and created laws to essentially keep them as hostages and slaves.
They may be staunchly Christian, right-wing leaning and out of touch generally with modern society, but neither have proactively sought to criminalize homosexuality in the name of their faith, or arrest people who are in support of LGBQT rights. I mean, it probably was harder to swallow than a dry Weetbix, but even Tony Abbott has a somewhat guarded acceptance of the community, he kind of has to - one of his daughters is gay IIRC.
Our leaders are certainly not perfect. But they’re not even on the same spectrum as the Qatari Royal Family/Government.
I agree with you. The Iranian team made it clear they are opposed to their governing regime by protesting the anthem. That is a powerful message. I’m just not sure that the Qatari powers will give a single fuck about some Australians picketing out the front of their football team’s hotel. The damage is done, they’ve flexed their muscle and won the rights to host a world cup despite there being not a single good reason for them to host it. To be honest, I don’t even think this is about football. It’s more to show the world that they have absolute power. Right now they are making massive US businesses look like monkeys. Qatar is pulling the strings and we are all dancing.
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This is where I think I find a lot of the controversy around these countries quite shallow.
Australia has refugee policies that result in many deaths at sea. We can’t say how many exactly but it’s in the hundreds, if not the thousands, since Siev X onwards.
Every Prime Minister since Howard has that blood on their hands for enforcing that policy. So, yeah, if there was actually a universal standard we’d be facing international boycotts and so would a lot of western countries for other atrocities that get erased or minimised in the mainstream media.
I can accept criticism of this WC from figures like Cantona, who have stood up for human rights their whole lives. But a lot of online criticism has come from people living in glass houses.
I vote Green.
Can I criticise the oppressors?
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Qatunts
On the armband thing, surely FifPro and the Referee’s equivalent can get together and arrange for no yellow card to be issued.
Have the One Love armband tucked into a sock and put it on after the teams have lined up and kicked off. I’d love to see a FIFA lackey running on to the field trying to stop the game.
Any referee that argued against this would be throwing their career away. The players can deal with big fines and whatever nonsense that FIFA try and throw.
A referee that has worked since they were a teenager to get on the FIFA lists and then to a world cup would never do another international game again.
What if there was no FIFA?
