[Football] Qatar World Cup

[Notters]

I'm about 75% sure I won't watch it. Anyone else?

 

[Fungus]

I keep forgetting it's on.

I only remember because of the unwelcome break in our season. I rarely watch international games anyway.

 

[sydney]

Huh?

You could argue that the Australian suits didn't take a stand so the players have done it for themselves. It might not be much. It might have minimal impact. But they did it.

You really can't excuse our players bottling it because the suits have stayed silent.

The voice of the players carries far more weight than the voice of a suit.

our players are muppets

 

[sydney]

I'm about 75% sure I won't watch it. Anyone else?

at this point in time i am not bothering with it at all , they can shove their plastic tournament where the sun don't shine , a plastic tournament for a fake entity that signals one thing and does the complete opposite.......dollar jockeys and pound worshippers the lot of them.

 

[Swansman]

Video: Dutch football supporters paid by Qatar storm out of talk show debate

A group of Oranje supporters, whose trip to and accommodations at the World Cup was paid for by the Qatari government, stormed off the talk show Jinek on Monday evening because they were unhappy with how the World Cup was being portrayed. “We’re leaving,” they said. “What lame talk,” another...

nltimes.nl

I wonder how many fans, "experts", journalists etc. they've paid to keep quiet or do shit like this.

 

[southstandandy]

I won't be watching this one, partly due to the obvious reasons which have been discussed at length before, and also because we're planning to go on holiday for the first 3 weeks of the tournament. Rather be on a beach in Egypt than watching the telly box.

 

[Stat Brother]

Lil old Albion received $1.7m from FIFA for our player involvement, which is nice.


I'm guessing palace got about $5,000,000.