2022 World Cup Discussion

[hammocity]

She might be attractive but personally I have had overkill with her, she is everywhere on the TV.

She ticks all the boxes, absolutely nothing against her, TV execs must be in dreamland with her demographic.

 

[lancs blue]

Beglin. Also, there's quite a few on here, of an older vintage, who would disagree with you on Hill. He once did a hatchet job on, IIRC, Brian Kidd (when he was playing for us) on MOTD.

After a game against Arsenal IIRC, where they'd been kicking lumps out of us but Hill chose to highlight an incident involving Kiddo and spent what seemed like an age banging on about it.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

So you want to refuse/knock back billions of pounds worth of contracts involving thousands of UK jobs and livelihoods (and probably let the French get it) because of their laws on homosexuality ?

How do you feel about buying Middle eastern oil ?

No I wouldn’t want to do any of those things but there is a bucket load of false equivalence going on when people say we should attack Qatar over the football but ignore everything else. Either you accept that the world is made up of disparate populations, with different beliefs and at different stages of evolution, or you don’t. If you don’t, and that is a perfectly understandable train of thought, surely you can’t be selective about that?
Either you say the Qataris are complete c**ts and we will have nothing to do with them or, you crack on, engage with them and try to bring them round to your way of thinking?
Finally, if you’re the ‘media’ and Qatar is such an horrific place, don’t go and present from the studio at home where you fully entitled to explain why you’re taking that stance. Or be like Gary Neville and complain bitterly about everything, go along to act as a pundit not only for the domestic channels but for the Qatar media channel BEIN sports as well!

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Going on about sportwashing on ITV now. fuck me every fucking match is like a panarama investigation now.If they were so serious,why have they sent hundreds of employees over there to cover it all. Fucking hypocrites.

But it was suggested that sports washing might not be all its cracked up to be and can back fire. So far Qatar is receiving bad publicity only. Could there be postive changes in Qatar as a consequence of this bad publicity. Regime washing?

 

[SWP's back]

No I wouldn’t want to do any of those things but there is a bucket load of false equivalence going on when people say we should attack Qatar over the football but ignore everything else. Either you accept that the world is made up of disparate populations, with different beliefs and at different stages of evolution, or you don’t. If you don’t, and that is a perfectly understandable train of thought, surely you can’t be selective about that?
Either you say the Qataris are complete c**ts and we will have nothing to do with them or, you crack on, engage with them and try to bring them round to your way of thinking?
Finally, if you’re the ‘media’ and Qatar is such an horrific place, don’t go and present from the studio at home where you fully entitled to explain why you’re taking that stance. Or be like Gary Neville and complain bitterly about everything, go along to act as a pundit not only for the domestic channels but for the Qatar media channel BEIN sports as well!

On the Neville thing, he’s on Bein English. The locals all watch their own Arabic version with different guests (often Wenger). Bein English is shown all over the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa (and I believe it was shown in Australasia but not sure if it still is).

 

[blue for life]

Clive Tyldsley has to be the worst of the worst. Barry Davies was particularly bad too. I don’t see why we need commentary, I know what I’m seeing and most of them offer zero insight whatsoever. Give me stadium noise only.

Be great if you had the choice of stadium noise only

 

[Koniec]

Be great if you had the choice of stadium noise only

There was a previous tournament where that was actually an option. On bbc I think. Utter bliss. Saves giving money to the crisp salesman.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Or be like Gary Neville and complain bitterly about everything, go along to act as a pundit not only for the domestic channels but for the Qatar media channel BEIN sports as well!

I wonder how many times he's brought up human rights on that channel, after claiming on HIGNFY that his reason for going was to to 'highlight these issues.'

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I didn't watch the Wales game, but if the commentary was anything like the Euros, I'm glad about that. They moan about the England bias, but I've never seen any English pundit deliver the level of one-sided cheerleading that the Robbie Savage did last time out.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I wonder how many times he's brought up human rights on that channel, after claiming on HIGNFY that his reason for going was to to 'highlight these issues.'

I’d imagine it would rhyme with Rugger Ball!