Pritt Stick   10 #1 Posted February 18, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/qatar-world-cup-india-migrant-worker-deaths  Foreign workers building in Qatar for this year's World Cup are dying in droves. Many being forced to work in awful conditions.  Will any of us boycott the football because of this? To my shame I don't think I will but I feel terrible about this.  Will anybody out there take a stand and try and do something? Should FIFA and our FA do / say something about this? Any thoughts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
999tigger   10 #2 Posted February 18, 2014 No  Only if Fifa are embarassed enough. Fifa are one of the problems in the first place. Silly place to hold it.  I am not sure whether the death rate is higher on the world cup project as other construction projects in Qatar. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Epic Fail   10 #3 Posted February 18, 2014 Forced how?  But no, I will still watch. I love the World Cup, and my watching or not watching won't have any impact on anything other than to ruin my own entertainment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Pritt Stick   10 #4 Posted February 18, 2014 I'm not knocking you, Epic, 'cos I'll be watching it too. They're 'forced' because their passports have been removed from them and they're indentured labourers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
shanes teeth   10 #5 Posted February 18, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/qatar-world-cup-india-migrant-worker-deaths Foreign workers building in Qatar for this year's World Cup are dying in droves. Many being forced to work in awful conditions.  Will any of us boycott the football because of this? To my shame I don't think I will but I feel terrible about this.  Will anybody out there take a stand and try and do something? Should FIFA and our FA do / say something about this? Any thoughts?  This years world cup is in Brazil isn't it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Pritt Stick   10 #6 Posted February 18, 2014 This years world cup is in Brazil isn't it?  Oops. My mistake. In 2018. Is that right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
shanes teeth   10 #7 Posted February 18, 2014 2022 I think! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Epic Fail   10 #8 Posted February 18, 2014 Oops. My mistake. In 2018. Is that right?  2022 I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Happ Hazzard   10 #9 Posted February 18, 2014 I will not be watching, if it does in fact take place. I still think it will end up being somewhere else, probably in the USA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
erebus   10 #10 Posted February 18, 2014 The west does not value foreigners, especially when dealing with an energy rich state, as they are protected from adverse media interests, by a corporate umbrella of silence.  Slavery, death abuse, robbery, torture is acceptable in client states, states that buy weapons, I mean defense equipment from their overlord, at suitably inflated, but mutually agreed prices. Extraction of homage through cash allows may privileges, but there is a fie line as Saddam ad Libya proved, as the overlord can turn against friends if they get a bit uppity, like having ideas of their own.  But even if the death toll is over a thousand, and the casualty rate much more, who cares they are poor people, and like poor people in the UK, should expect abuse, because they are of insect status, and insects have no real value.  Exploitation is fine if one is part of the club, as the members support one another, in the money merry-go-round, run by the overlord. So why bother, enjoy the football, that what its all about, where the players are equally like the workers, pawns in a game, but pawns with added value. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Pritt Stick   10 #11 Posted February 18, 2014 Erebus - I'm reading that wearing an imaginary cape twirling an imaginary moustache. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
SevenRivers   10 #12 Posted February 18, 2014 Slave labour, common in the Middle East. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...