Geopolitics
France24 – World Cup tickets for Iran fans revoked days before tournament, says country’s federation
The idea you can have sporting fairness when you are dealing with an evil empire like the US is absurd. Read the article HERE.
Football
Geopolitics
Peter Oborne – Maccabi Tel Aviv: Why Keir Starmer is stirring the politics of hatred
The UK Prime Minister’s determination to overturn a police ban and allow violent racist bigots to come to a football match Birmingham is truly absurd. Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in both 2022 and 2017, […]
Geopolitics
Jonathan Cook: The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel’s football thugs
The attempt to present Maccabi Tel Aviv fans as victims is a remarkable media distortion of reality. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha […]
Uncategorized
Binoy Kampmark – Sportswashed: Ronaldo Heads to Saudi Arabia
Football star Cristiano Ronaldo signing for Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr FC for a record-breaking £172 million per year is the latest effort in using sport to remove the blood stains from the Gulf’s despotic petro-states. […]
Corruption
Daniel Hough – World Cup 2022: heat on Qatar diverts attention from Fifa’s failure to tackle proven corruption
FIFA corruption is about much more than Qatar hosting the World Cup. Cross-posted from The Conversation UK. Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 men’s football World Cup has provoked a fair degree of anger and confusion. […]