The World Cup is upon us and the Mailbox is battling with the morality of it all, and questioning whether a win would be tainted…
So it looks like all the rotten, deceitful pigeons are coming home to roost over Qatar. We’ve endlessly debated ever since Russia and Qatar were awarded their world cups about Fifa, corruption, but now finally it is all being exposed to the sunlight.
I’ve watched every World Cup since and this was not an easy thing to do. I moved to Canada in 1967 and football up until the last decade or so was very difficult to watch since soccer was barely on the radar of sports or the public mind in Canada. In fact I took a lot of ridicule being a football fan in those days.
And yet, I don’t remember anyone describing France’s World Cup win as ‘tainted’. England’s run to the semi-finals was a cause for celebration, not something that was ignored or boycotted. Why is Qatar, which is rated just 2 places ahead of Qatar on the Human Freedom Index, an assessment of human rights, so bad when Russia was fine?
We can and should protest and raise concerns about human rights in Qatar. But there have been many, many sporting occasions held previously, held by regimes that were not morally acceptable. We can complain about the awarding of these events, but it will not diminish the achievements of the winners.As a Liverpool fan I have to point out that this is the asterisk world cup.
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