2022 World Cup Discussion

[BamberBridgeBlue]

And cue the gammons demanding the BBC gets privatised.

Ascending to the fifth dimension? Lol.

 

[unicorn]

Driving home so only heard radio commentary, and genuinely can't remember any description of activity on the pitch for entire 90 minutes, just inane chit chat about off-field stuff, discussion about individual players (mainly Ecuadorians in Prem) and random stats.

So either it was a really dreadful game or BBC commentary gone to pot.

 

[aguero93:20]

Yeah, 'n Mohammed knows how much was in the envelope to have that first goal called offside.

Fixed.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Those Qatari gays should go and live in Colorado or Florida, where they’ll be perfectly safe.…..

At least 600 (likely many more) LGBT murdered in the USA in the last 20 years including 5 today and 49 in one mass shooting in 2016.

375 transgendered people murdered last year mostly in Central and South America with 33% murdered in Brazil alone.

This is not to defend the Qatari position but if the UK/world media think there’s only this problem in Qatar, as usual they’re very much mistaken.

Just to be very clear you are comparing totally different scales of situations. Some sick fucking lunatic has shot a load of gay people in America.

Being Gay in Qatar is still a punishable offense by the state.

I'm getting tired off all this tit for tat whataboutism at this point.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

The Iranian captain is quoted as condemning Iranian authority and is blaming them for the rioting and deaths in that country. He plays for AEK Athens so I can't see him not going straight back there after the competition is over, for them. If he goes back to Iran I don't expect we'd be seeing him again.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Just to be very clear you are comparing totally different scales of situations. Some sick fucking lunatic has shot a load of gay people in America.

Being Gay in Qatar is still a punishable offense by the state.

I'm getting tired off all this tit for tat whataboutism at this point.

There's a huge difference in right wing nutters indiscriminately targeting gay people, and gay people being targeted by the state. Anyone who can't see the difference is beyond reason.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Can't shake the feeling that something abominable is going to happen at this World Cup that'll be remembered forever.

Maybe I'm being melodramatic. Just feels like this is building up to one of football's big tragedies. So much that can go wrong and so much that already has.

If nobody's died in a month then I'll call it a relief.

Harry Maguire to win Golden Boot?

 

[Stoned Rose]

There's a huge difference in right wing nutters indiscriminately targeting gay people, and gay people being targeted by the state. Anyone who can't see the difference is beyond reason.

Well in Our Phil.

 

[BlindEyeSeesAll]

Driving home so only heard radio commentary, and genuinely can't remember any description of activity on the pitch for entire 90 minutes, just inane chit chat about off-field stuff, discussion about individual players (mainly Ecuadorians in Prem) and random stats.

So either it was a really dreadful game or BBC commentary gone to pot.

That's nothing new. I stopped listening to 5live football commentary for that very same reason about 10 years ago

 

[Blue and true]

Here's an interesting one. Homosexuality wasn't legalised in the UK until 1967...someone remind where the 1966 World Cup was held?