FIFA has always been a corrupt sewer. The corruption was low key and easy enough to ignore before media rights money exploded. So the corruption has become massive and unavoidable to notice but it’s so deeply ingrained in the institution that getting rid of it will mean destroying the organization and trying to start over again and the money people prefer the status quo.
It was openly known and reported on that the choice of countries like Russia and Qatar was the result of bribery. Yet when the games start everybody turns a blind eye to whatever problems are associated with the home country and just concentrate on the soccer. With all of the money Fox Sports invested in carrying the World Cup they are just going to play along like all of the other rights holders. Part of the issue of holding the World Cup in a dictatorial country is the local leader can make any decision they want and FIFA is going to spinelessly accommodate it. The decision about the armbands is one instance and screwing the long time sponsor Budweiser is another. If the Qatari government is unhappy with Fox Sports they can throw them out of the country and nobody can overrule them. If you want to see stories about the ugly side of the Cup, you can find them in Sports Illustrated, The Ringer, The Athletic, and pretty much anybody else who covers sports. On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:31 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > Mr Oliver is with you on Qatari behavior, but yeah, he’s gonna watch the > World Cup as well. > > https://youtu.be/UMqLDhl8PXw > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 21, 2022, at 16:09, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Two problems: > 1. You don't want to waste a substitute (you only have five subs in three > opportunities). > 2. Yellow cards accumulate both within and outside matches: when you get a > second yellow card, you're required to sit out the following match. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:51 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fuck FIFA. >> >> I get it (though my understanding is that an in game penalty is unusual >> if not unheard of for a uniform violation like this). Still, would like to >> see what kind of WC this would become if FIFA would up disqualifying the >> Captains of 8 or so European teams. >> >> As a Soccer neophyte: Would it technically have been possible to make >> like the worst player the Captain and let them take the Yellow Card? >> >> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 12:44 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> FIFA put the kibosh on the armbands: >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/11/21/world-cup-one-love-armbands-yellow-cards/ >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:27 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> This is helpful. I have watched the first two matches, and currently in >>>> the 12th minute of the Wales-US match, and have been waiting for some >>>> mention of the human rights issues. So far, nothing. They do show shots of >>>> Beckham, but without the obvious context. >>>> >>>> Also, I see the Euros decided not to go with the Rainbow armbands? >>>> >>>> I was not attending to the fact this was Fox (probably would have >>>> guessed ESPN), though yes, now that I think of it I do see the Fox bug in >>>> upper left. >>>> >>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 10:19 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> When asked at a press conference whether they would report on the >>>>> horrible track record regarding human rights of Qatar as part of their >>>>> FIFA >>>>> World Cup coverage, Fox Sports said something like "the fans want to see >>>>> the World Cup" (NBCU's Telemundo, which has the Spanish language rights to >>>>> the tournament, says they and NBC News in English will report on the home >>>>> of the event). 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