Surprised no thread on this (I looked and searched and can't see one, apologies if nevertheless there is).
I listened to the whole of Nihal's interview with Gary Neville today on radio 5. What a bloke. Astonishing. Check it out - bound to be on the iPlayer.
I was amused by his stance about being an MP. He said that he wanted the freedom to gob off without having to toe any party line, and wanted to spend lots of time watching football and running his businesses.
Boy can he talk without the need to inhale, though.
I thought Nihal was a bit unreasonable criticizing Neville's stance over engagement. Nihal seemed to be saying that we should ban any nation with a bad human rights record from football (a view with which one may have sympathy) whereas Neville argues that we should take football everywhere and use this as an excuse to berate any medievalists for their human rights violations (more constructive that putting the Saudis, etc., on ignore, shirley?). Neville did not say we should simply pop over to Qatar, drink camel's milk, and keep our gobs shut.
But on the whole, the journalism and the interviewee both seemed excellent. Check it out if you have an hour to smare (the 10 minute interview went on for an hour
).
For those in the UK I think this may be the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d36kbq
I listened to the whole of Nihal's interview with Gary Neville today on radio 5. What a bloke. Astonishing. Check it out - bound to be on the iPlayer.
I was amused by his stance about being an MP. He said that he wanted the freedom to gob off without having to toe any party line, and wanted to spend lots of time watching football and running his businesses.
Boy can he talk without the need to inhale, though.
I thought Nihal was a bit unreasonable criticizing Neville's stance over engagement. Nihal seemed to be saying that we should ban any nation with a bad human rights record from football (a view with which one may have sympathy) whereas Neville argues that we should take football everywhere and use this as an excuse to berate any medievalists for their human rights violations (more constructive that putting the Saudis, etc., on ignore, shirley?). Neville did not say we should simply pop over to Qatar, drink camel's milk, and keep our gobs shut.
But on the whole, the journalism and the interviewee both seemed excellent. Check it out if you have an hour to smare (the 10 minute interview went on for an hour
).For those in the UK I think this may be the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d36kbq
.
