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UnfuckingbelievableâŚthe state of that sticker placement
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Obviously never sacrificed his school dinner money on them. Fraud.
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There is no end to them being utter cunts.
Philippe Auclair on Arsecast yesterday said that there are 160 extra flights a day going through Doha airport for the tournament with people travelling back to Dubai and other places post games.
Fucks sake. This tournament really is utter trash from every conceivable angle.
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The Socceroos released some clip on human rights etc in Qatar.
Tbh itâs all just a gimmick, if countries really wanted to make a stand they just wouldnât attend the World Cup in the country.
So in my opinion given theyâre all attending, they should just get on with playing football.
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Exactly.
If youâre so keen on a boycott, donât go and play.
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Everything that has happened, is happening and will happen was as predictable as it could possibly be for anyone who knew a thing about Qatar.
Peoples ire should be firs red at the people who took money in envelopes to let this tournament go ahead and the regulatory bodies that allowed state owned takeover of clubs and have facilitated sports washing for years.
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No team has said this though.
It is a bit like talking out both sides of your mouth but I donât genuinely expect footballers to turn down a World Cup place. Expect perhaps Bellerin might if he was at the level to be involved.
If you say it and donât act on it though you are just wanting those sweet internet points.
If you donât plan on pulling out donât say anything
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Nah Iâm happy to see this tournament get any and all criticism, I donât care if people think itâs hypocritical or tokenistic. Literally anything that criticises and runs down this shit show is fine by me.
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Yeah I think that is a good point and itâs why some teams have said they wonât boycott. They want to draw attention to what is happening there.
A boycott would only really work if all the big teams agreed to do it. Thatâs obviously not going to happen. A small team like Australia boycotting the tournament now does nothing for the greater cause.
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Fair point really tbh, weâre in the bottom 5 teams in the tournament. I canât really debate that reality.
Need an 06 style performance from Australia
Team we have now just doesnât have the talent of that 06 team mate. That 06 team for us was kind of a golden generation, most of our starting players played in Europes top 5 leagues.
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Personally I think itâs a terrible cop out. Just donât play. Itâs not about virtue signalling from a player, itâs about their own individual actual opinion on what matters. Just donât play. You kick a ball around for fun, that is your profession. Just donât do it there. If you do you fucking suck. Straight up, you donât need it, you are not forced, you have the power make a stand and you donât and itâs 100% purely out of selfish reasons.
And if you decide to go there and play any way just own up to it. Say yea itâs shit but itâs the world cup we donât care about politics here or something. When you say yeah I really donât like that Iâm about to go there voluntarily and play a game for fun for weeks yeah considering all the moral complications, then you can just fuck right off lol 
It isnât about that you either overthrow FIFA and destroy the competition thoroughly or nothing you do matters. You just need to take responsibility for your own individual actions and there is zero hindrance for you to do so. You donât need to draw attention to shit, there has been enough attention drawn to this by journalists for years, everyone knows, nothing new of significance will be revealed in a month.
I think youâre letting the players off the hook too easily here 
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Thatâs not why people should boycott things. Thereâs really no need to tie an individual boycott to a greater cause either.
It should just be an individual conscious decision based on your morals, if similar minded people feel the same then great.
As a player, if you have an issue with WC being in Qatar donât go, that simple. Otherwise, the superficial gestures are pointless virtue signaling
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And what are you doing that means youâre not letting them off the hook?
Iâll be interested to know how many here will boycott the World Cup and not watch any of it.
I am not accepting their excuses.
I am not playing, the tournament wasnât built for me, I am not paying to watch it but itâs not me who is in a position to do something that actually makes a difference here. In my opinion the players are in the driverâs seat to make that difference with no real sacrifices except their own selfish glory hunt and I think they just need to on an individual basis stop being so fucking complacent to shit that is wrong, hiding behind stupid excuses.
Thatâs why Iâm pointing out that theyâre not contracted to do anything, not that it matters to me if it were their job since theyâre all millionaires, but it isnât even their job. It is perfectly optional. Theyâre playing a game with a ball.
I care far less if people watch or not (especially if youâre not paying for it), but itâs a nice gesture I guess if you donât (I see the point), however the burden on taking action on this is not on viewers. Itâs on millionaires kicking a ball around for fun. My team is to shit to attend this WC, but if they had attended they wouldnât represent me in any way, if they refused to go they would actually represent me and make me proud though.
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Strong disagree.
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