Qatar World Cup 2022

[Babb'sBurstNad]

56 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

He would not be much use in Nazi Germany.

 

Bit harsh, just because he's French.

[Aventus]

2 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

Am I the only one seeing this as a potentially good thing? 

No fan violence. 

Positive, vocal support for each team. 

Locals having a great time, and paid.  

It's interesting. 

To me it's several levels above a club paying to put little plastic flags on each seat. 

 

The actual fans haven't arrived yet, it's just a load of migrant workers doing overtime waving. So there could still be trouble. 

 

Just very artificial 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

9 minutes ago, Aventus said:

To me it's several levels above a club paying to put little plastic flags on each seat. 

 

The actual fans haven't arrived yet, it's just a load of migrant workers doing overtime waving. So there could still be trouble. 

 

Just very artificial 

I mean, no, it's not how I want football in this country, but I'm mildly interested in seeing how it makes the Qatar stadiums feel on matchday. The players won't care, at all. They may even perform better, less tense, it's just good, albeit artificial, vibes. 

 

I'm in a weird prism of both looking forward to the world cup and also looking forward to the whole Qatar chapter come to an abrupt end.  After 12 fucking years, it's been like a stone in everyone's shoe all this time, and we can finally shake the fucker out next month. 

 

[No2]

2 hours ago, ManéMan said:

 

 

Half his team put food on the table with the Qatari pound. He could hardly say anything else.

[Gnasher]

Exclusive peek inside Sepp Blaters Qatari hotel room for the fothcoming world cup.

 

 

 

 

 

[A_S]

On 15/11/2022 at 05:02, Scott_M said:

Seeing they look to be struggling to get somebody for the opening ceremony, Beckham should give his good mate Elton a call…

 

I hear Tom Jones is 'available'...

 

[Bjornebye]

5 hours ago, ManéMan said:

 

 

All he’s saying here is he won’t be bumming and men while he’s there. 
 

Considering this is his wife he’s hardly bending over backwards (or forwards) for them is he? 
 

 

[JohnnyH]

This World Cup is going to help confirm who the ignorant cunts are that we didn’t know about yet. So that’s nice. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

12 hours ago, Dave D said:

Im confused why there was uproar about gay people not being able to watch their team at the World Cup?

 

Why not? Your sexual preference isnt on your passport? Just go and watch the game.  

 

 

 

 

It's like German Jews in the 1930s. If they'd just kept their Jewishness to themselves, they would have been fine.

 

Like Lloris says, you just have to respect local traditions.

[Dave D]

43 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's like German Jews in the 1930s. If they'd just kept their Jewishness to themselves, they would have been fine.

 

Like Lloris says, you just have to respect local traditions.

Not sure Genocide is on the table at The World Cup

[sir roger]

12 hours ago, ManéMan said:

 

 

 

The far-ish right got over 40 % of the vote at the recent Presidential elections, so I imagine statistically there will be a sprinkling of this sort of sentiment in the squad. It's like when people are surprised that Italian footballers are found to be right-leaning.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Dave D said:

Not sure Genocide is on the table at The World Cup

In fairness, nobody was sure it was on the table in 1939s Germany.

[Reckoner]

8 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

In fairness, nobody was sure it was on the table in 1939s Germany.

Maybe those 6 million Jews died of natural causes too, just like the migrant workers?

[Dave D]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

In fairness, nobody was sure it was on the table in 1939s Germany.

 

56 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Maybe those 6 million Jews died of natural causes too, just like the migrant workers?

 

Im still not sure where the genocide of 6million Jews comes into this conversation     

[Gnasher]

 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

47 minutes ago, Dave D said:

Im still not sure where the genocide of 6million Jews comes into this conversation     

How about the tens of thousands of murdered LGBT+ people? Can you see where they come into it?

https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/gay-people/

 

The bottom line is that "people will be OK, if they just pretend to be something they're not" is a bit shit.

[sir roger]

4 hours ago, Dave D said:

Not sure Genocide is on the table at The World Cup

Did Suarez not make the Uruguay squad ?

[halewood pete]

[Dave D]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

How about the tens of thousands of murdered LGBT+ people? Can you see where they come into it?

https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/gay-people/

 

The bottom line is that "people will be OK, if they just pretend to be something they're not" is a bit shit.

 

Im not defending Qatars record on any subject- I did suggest that gay people could go and watch football at the World Cup if they choose as surely their sexuality will not come into it at any point? Maybe Im wrong on that? 

 

In the same way that visitors may not agree with strict religious beliefs- unless your planning to protest you should be just fine if you are just going to watch football.   

   

You keep using examples of huge death figures at largely at the hands of the Nazis which is a bit weird. 

 

   

 

   

[halewood pete]

[Gnasher]

4 hours ago, sir roger said:

Did Suarez not make the Uruguay squad ?

 

Speaking of which, let's go down World Cup memory lane. 

 

Thinking back he could be a slightly controversial young fella on the odd occasion could our Luis. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by Gnasher

[Bjornebye]

6 hours ago, Dave D said:

 

 

Im still not sure where the genocide of 6million Jews comes into this conversation     

 

He's calling them all gay 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Haha, been years since I've seen that Suarez handball. I'd completely forgotten he did a little "who, me?" gesture after the red card.

 

Mad bastard.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

 

Speaking of which, let's go down World Cup memory lane. 

 

Thinking back he could be a slightly controversial young fella on the odd occasion could our Luis. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They've got a shout.

 

Looking at all the teams, there's no outright favourite, every squad has deficiencies. 

France are liable to implode under pressure, Benzema and Mbappe will be competing with each other, not working together. Tchouameni though, awesome.  

 

The most complete squad for me is Holland, but Depay and Berwijn are flaky as fuck. 

 

I'd have an outside bet on Mitrovic as top scorer, him and Vlahovic are potent and it's Mitrovic who scores more goals for them at present.  He's 66/1 for top scorer.  

 

Uruguay will battle, are little-fancied, but Nunez and Suarez are potentially a great combo on top of a hard-working and scrappy side.  

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

They've got a shout.

 

Looking at all the teams, there's no outright favourite, every squad has deficiencies. 

France are liable to implode under pressure, Benzema and Mbappe will be competing with each other, not working together. Tchouameni though, awesome.  

 

The most complete squad for me is Holland, but Depay and Berwijn are flaky as fuck. 

 

I'd have an outside bet on Mitrovic as top scorer, him and Vlahovic are potent and it's Mitrovic who scores more goals for them at present.  He's 66/1 for top scorer.  

 

Uruguay will battle, are little-fancied, but Nunez and Suarez are potentially a great combo on top of a hard-working and scrappy side.  

 

Uruguay v South Korea should be a good game as it will likely decide who gets out of that group with Portugal.