The Randal Report13 Des 2022

WORLD CUP ’22 QATAR

THE RANDAL REPORT Is Football Coming Home?

Now I readily confess that my knowledge and experience of football is rather limited! I have only been to one match and that was Leicester City, playing I don’t know who and it was around 1969, and Leicester City lost, which at the time was not unusual!

Indeed, my limited interest was more in the legs of the players and how short the shorts were, but we’ll leave that there! So, here we are again, with another World cup, with hopes for the England team, no doubt to be dashed at some point, as England needs a 1966 moment, now more than any time for decades, well at least weeks, now that the womens’ football team are acquiring trophies faster than you can say Qatar!

Our subject today is less about the game itself, the players and the teams, it’s more about where

the World Cup is being held this year! As Qatar is not renowned either for a good human rights record, particularly their attitude to the LGBTQ community, or for that matter its safety record concerning migrant construction workers. Indeed, since Qatar was announced as the host of this years’ world cup, some 6400 migrant construction workers have died!

James Cleverley suggested that LGBTQ supporters should amend their behavior whilst in Qatar, was this a constructive comment to make?

The penalty for gay sex is 7 years!

Should our team be going to the world cup, or should the supporters be boycotting? By going, are we simply endorsing a country which has repressive laws?

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