Experiment626 wrote:Also:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tifo-football-podcast/id1227699368?i=1000582487676
James Montague's classic When Friday Comes has been rereleased with added material ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. Travelling to every country in the Middle East and meeting fans, players, workers and campaigners, James paints an unforgettable picture of football in a controversial, vibrant and surprising new world. In this episode of Tifo Talks, Jon Mackenzie chats to James about the book and how he came to write it before focusing on two Middle Eastern countries in particular, Iran and Qatar.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tifo-football-podcast/id1227699368?i=1000586700531
Tifo speaks to football author David Goldblatt about the controversy around the World Cup in Qatar. Why is it controversial? How is it different to other tournaments? And what might be the response?
Not Tifo but a quick summary:
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-many-people-have-died-for-the-qatar-world-cup/a-63763713
Funkstain wrote:As we all know, everyone is complicit to some extent in the state of the world. Cheap clothes, technology products, cheap food, beef, flying, not giving enough to charity, whatever the fuck it is it’s bad and you’re probably doing it.
So it is really about personal lines, beyond which you decide (or are persuaded) not to cross - and the lines are blurry, and moveable: maybe you learn something new which makes you think again about something.
In this case, this World Cup in Qatar, it’s beyond my line for a number of reasons, most of which Dante posted up there. As a Chelsea fan it may be the pinnacle of hypocrisy!
Diluted Dante wrote:We can start with this excellent series from Tifo Football.
dynamiteReady wrote:Seeing how upset Kris was, has made me think.
I also get a bit angry when I read the stories about people getting turned away for wearing rainbow colours. Shit is maddening. Football is culturally bankrupt enough as it is.
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