Saudi Arabia has an appalling human rights record. What are we doing allowing them host the World Cup?
All that pageantry, that glorification of Hitler’s sick and evil regime, was wrong. We had early 20th century sportswashing before the term had even been invented.READ MORE: Stephen Bradley hails Johnny Kenny's maturity on a special night for Shamrock Rovers in Europe
The Spanish fascist state under General Franco won the bid in 1966, nine years before his death, to host the 1982 World Cup.Olympic Games have been held in Beijing and Moscow.And FIFA’s Gianni Infantino has gone and done so again.Why? Well, there are two reasons.Women are treated as second class citizens.
Six years ago, a Saudi journalist, who had been living in Washington and working for the Washing Post, began writing some mildly critical articles about his country’s government. This, to me, is history repeating itself. This is as bad now as handing a propaganda tool to the Nazis in 1936.
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