Reply With QuoteThe football associations should have been over the decisions, when they were made, like a rash.Originally Posted by Daffydd
Far too late to do anything about it now.
Politics and corruption are destroying the game.
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Klopp said it well, it's a bit late in the day to be protesting about Qatar now and expecting players to do that to boot.
...shows his class...
The football associations should have been over the decisions, when they were made, like a rash.
Far too late to do anything about it now.
Politics and corruption are destroying the game.
There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief
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Bobby not in the Brazil squad for the WC, no real surprise his form is more miss than hit these days. Absolutely anonymous yesterday
Rowdy Yates
Might be of benefit to us..
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Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a "mistake". Oops
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Hmmm - maybe they didn't give him enough hush money
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/fifa-world-cup/qatar-getting-the-world-cup-over-us-was-linked-to-14b-arms-deal-ex-fifa-boss/ar-AA13RVSF
"...and my inch is like a freight train, so I only use it in self defence"
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he comes out when there's not long before the competition starts?. All corrupt, just like the FA
Cleaning up the Scots since the 13th century
Rowdy Yates
An arms deal no less... How surprising..
The United States identified French President Nicolas Sarkozy as one of France's most pro-American politicians as early as 2006 and noted that his nickname was "Sarkozy the American", according to US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks this week.
https://www.france24.com/en/20101201-us-france-sarkozy-pro-american-bush-obama-kouchner-ally-wikileaks-embassy-cables
AFP - Even before his election, President Nicolas Sarkozy convinced the US he was the most pro-American French leader since the war and even discussed sending French troops to Iraq, leaked cables showed.
The French daily Le Monde, citing a trove of stolen diplomatic cables given to it by the activist website WikiLeaks, said Sarkozy wooed US diplomats in Paris long before taking office in 2007 and convinced them he was a firm ally.
"Sarkozy is the French politician who most supports the role of the United States in the world," the US embassy in Paris wrote in a 2006 portrait of the right-wing minister shortly before he announced his presidential run.
Sarkozy made no secret of his admiration for Washington as he began his presidency, but some of the French voters who elected him might have been surprised by just how closely he supported then US president George W. Bush.
In the most startling extract from the cables, which have yet to appear on the WikiLeaks website and appear in Le Monde in French translation, the US ambassador writes in 2006 that Sarkozy might send French troops to Iraq.
"Sarkozy declared that France and the international community would have to help the United States resolve the situation in Iraq. Perhaps by replacing the American army with an international force," he wrote.
But the US war in Iraq remained extremely unpopular in France, and nothing came of this idea once Sarkozy was elected, although he did send more French troops to Afghanistan and brought France back into full NATO membership.
Still he ended up doing a year...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58729505
...at home...
Last edited by Steveo; 8th November 2022 at 03:29 PM.
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Don't like footballers getting involved in politics.
If they did not espouse their such opinions on such subjects prior to the world cup then shut up
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I used to love watching the world cup.
The first one I watched was USA 94 as a 9 year old which included some great matches. I watched 63 out of 64 matches in 2002 given the friendly time zone and only didn't watch the 3rd place play off.
I excitedly got up in the wee hours of the morning to watch Australia at their first world cup in my lifetime in 2006 and did the same in 2010 and 2014.
I didn't realise it at the time but 2018 will probably be the last one I watch. The circumstances under which Qatar was awarded this world cup means I will make a point of not watching and from 2026 there will be 48 teams competing. This will mean every 3rd or 4th country in the world will be there which is just ridiculous and ruins the competitions prestige in my view.
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