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The PL of course is rich clubs hoarding money and players and trophies and resulting in a totally uneven playing field. The World Cup by contrast is just the best players from each country, you can't buy players from other countries (well, unless you're Qatar lol) - its a much purer form of the...

I get it, I do, but I think its just letting them win. We didn't choose this country to host the world cup, but thats not out fault, the fans nor the players, its still the world cup, the peoples game, not the suits' game, and that's how I'm treating it.

Don't you think that the World Cup belongs to the people of the World? It doesn't belong to FIFA, or to to the Qatar government, or to any of the uber-rich multi-national sponsors. f*** FIFA, f*** the rulers of Qatar, I'm not going to let them take away my enjoyment of the people's game. If...

I fully agree that the World Cup shouldn't have been awarded to Qatar for all the reasons stated. But I do think there is value in not just looking at Qatar as an isolated case but also considering our own situation and previous tournaments. A 2009 study showed that migrant workers in the UK...

Whilst we're on the whataboutery, could add that in 1966 in England homosexuality was still illegal, gay people were persecuted throughout society and the majority of the country considered it an illness requiring treatment. As with your examples above, societies change, people change...

This will probably be the one we win now, with no one watching.... I would watch, except all of England's games except the first one are 2 in the morning kick offs out here, so sod that.