Can We Just Stop and Think About This for a Moment?

[Jurgen Knows]

27 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

This is gonna blow your mind Harry but every recent World Cup sets record overall viewership. It may have to do with a number of newly available streaming platforms available during that time. And the extra billion people on earth since SA 2010. 

 

In other news:

Qatar and FIFA are under fresh scrutiny after thousands of empty seats were seen in Monday’s World Cup matches.

There is also bemusement at the official attendance figures as every game so far has a record which is higher than the capacity of the stadium.

 

 

https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/22/qatar-announce-dubious-world-cup-attendance-figures-despite-thousands-of-empty-seats-17802757/

It happened in previous World Cup tournaments as well. Nothing new.

[No2]

1 minute ago, Jurgen Knows said:

It happened in previous World Cup tournaments as well. Nothing new.

This is the first tournament with thousands of supporters in constant attendance. 

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, Harrison Booth said:

This is the first tournament with thousands of supporters in constant attendance. 

 

Into these Celtic 

[Jurgen Knows]

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2010/jun/13/world-cup-stadiums-empty-seats
 

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-2014-fifa-under-pressure-over-empty-seats-at-opening-matches-30357191.html
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soccer-insider/wp/2018/06/15/the-world-cup-is-already-beset-by-empty-seats-fifa-is-baffled/

 

[TheHowieLama]

16 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

What's with all the chubby Arabs man? Everyone knows more than a few fat Americans but FFS, y'all have run the table after that.

Buy some bicycles.

 

[Jurgen Knows]

7 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

What's with all the chubby Arabs man? Everyone knows more than a few fat Americans but FFS, y'all have run the table after that.

Buy some bicycles.

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Neither of those fellas look overweight.

 

 

[Jurgen Knows]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

Neither of those fellas looks overweight.

 

 

That’s the trick dude

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Jurgen Knows said:

That’s the trick dude

 

Ah, maths. 

 

So it's 1 in 3 - those two are not and you are sat on the internet. 

 

Touches knows.

 

[Jurgen Knows]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Ah, maths. 

 

So it's 1 in 3 - those two are not and you are sat on the internet. 

 

Touches knows.

 

That’s probably the only thing you got right in this thread LOL

[Captain Turdseye]

[TheHowieLama]

On the armbands - from the Qatari WC head:

 

 "From day one, we have said everybody is welcome. We have also asked for people to come and respect our culture, our religion.

"It's not a Qatari culture or Qatari religion, these values are regional. It's for the Islamic world, the Arab world, the Middle East."

 

Seems like three different things there no?

[Jairzinho]

3 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

What's with all the chubby Arabs man? Everyone knows more than a few fat Americans but FFS, y'all have run the table after that.

Buy some bicycles.

 

 

The UK presumably used to be but now no-one can afford to eat. 

[TheHowieLama]

6 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

The UK presumably used to be but now no-one can afford to eat. 

 

Well that and burning off calories shivering will do it.

[Supremolad]

I just want everyone to know that I gave a lot of reps to Jurgen Knows throughout this thread. He obviously paid me a lot of money and sent over a few camels.

 

Otherwise he wouldn't have received any form of encouragement from me for trying to bring up a balanced view addressing the moral superiority and double standards many of us exhibit regarding the issues he raised.

[Jurgen Knows]

4 hours ago, Supremolad said:

I just want everyone to know that I gave a lot of reps to Jurgen Knows throughout this thread. He obviously paid me a lot of money and sent over a few camels.

 

Otherwise he wouldn't have received any form of encouragement from me for trying to bring up a balanced view addressing the moral superiority and double standards many of us exhibit regarding the issues he raised.

Thank you and respect.

[Jurgen Knows]

6 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

On the armbands - from the Qatari WC head:

 

 "From day one, we have said everybody is welcome. We have also asked for people to come and respect our culture, our religion.

"It's not a Qatari culture or Qatari religion, these values are regional. It's for the Islamic world, the Arab world, the Middle East."

 

Seems like three different things there no?

I’m thinking to do a small video to educate you about this.

[Jurgen Knows]

Here you go ... 

[Paulie Dangerously]

Glad people put their hands together for the protestor last night, he'll need a couple today. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Anybody who comes on her to rile up the most anti establishment set of supporters in the PL,possibly even the English league system is obviously a massive WUM. Either that or it's Fanchester returning to exact revenge on a rival group of supporters while taking a supporting role about his club's,obviously, morally superior owners. Abu Dhabi do.

[Jurgen Knows]

46 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Anybody who comes on her to rile up the most anti establishment set of supporters in the PL,possibly even the English league system is obviously a massive WUM. Either that or it's Fanchester returning to exact revenge on a rival group of supporters while taking a supporting role about his club's,obviously, morally superior owners. Abu Dhabi do.

I said before that if this was a Chelsea or Millwall forum I wouldn’t have bothered. Because this is the most anti establishment set of supporters, and because the city of Liverpool itself has suffered similar stereotyping and derision from the rest of the country, I expected at least more of the John Barnes reaction here. But when it comes to the Arabs it seems to be ok even here. No problem. We live and we learn.

[VladimirIlyich]

17 minutes ago, Jurgen Knows said:

I said before that if this was a Chelsea or Millwall forum I wouldn’t have bothered. Because this is the most anti establishment set of supporters, and because the city of Liverpool itself has suffered similar stereotyping and derision from the rest of the country, I expected at least more of the John Barnes reaction here. But when it comes to the Arabs it seems to be ok even here. No problem. We live and we learn.

Nice one for the continued wumming and total ignorance of what is actually being said.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

18 minutes ago, Jurgen Knows said:

I said before that if this was a Chelsea or Millwall forum I wouldn’t have bothered. Because this is the most anti establishment set of supporters, and because the city of Liverpool itself has suffered similar stereotyping and derision from the rest of the country, I expected at least more of the John Barnes reaction here. But when it comes to the Arabs it seems to be ok even here. No problem. We live and we learn.

What did you think of T.E. Lawrence?

[VladimirIlyich]

47 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

What did you think of T.E. Lawrence?

Not as good as R.N. Clemence.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

39 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Not as good as R.N. Clemence.

Or J.R. Hartley