2022 FIFA World Cup Finals

[Webster]

This guy is an absolute moron. I got made fun of for having red hair, it's not fun, but it's not even a fraction of what I've faced since coming out, and that's nothing compared to what the LGBTQ+ population in Qatar are facing. The guy needs his head checked.

 

[Webster]

As bad as his stream-of-consciousness was, Gen, his hour-long soliloquy was actually supposed to be an hour-long Q and A with the media.

 

[Webster]

Heads up: I do plan to live-blog some of the matches over at the C2, starting with the opening....

Group A: Qatar vs. Ecuador

 

[Webster]

 

[KenDaGamer]

Don't worry, Ken; I'll watch so you don't have to.

Sounds fair to me.

 

[PGen98]

As bad as his stream-of-consciousness was, Gen, his hour-long soliloquy was actually supposed to be an hour-long Q and A with the media.

Sounds about right, lol, give a moron a platform...

Heads up: I do plan to live-blog some of the matches over at the C2, starting with the opening....

Group A: Qatar vs. Ecuador

Aww, fun!

Deplorable conditions!

(yay, Welsh dragon!)

 

[Webster]

(yay, Welsh dragon!)

The Eagle stands ready to do battle on Monday against the Dragon....

 

[PGen98]

The Eagle stands ready to do battle on Monday against the Dragon....

Hope they win, Wales are strong, but the US has a real shot.

 

[Webster]

The Guardian: Karim Benzema ruled out of whole World Cup in major blow to France

Karim Benzema is to miss the whole World Cup after being injured during training with France in Qatar.

The French Football Federation said in a statement that the Real Madrid forward was forced to cut short training after feeling “pain in the quadriceps of his left thigh”. An MRI scan later confirmed a rectus femoris tendon injury, which means the 34-year-old faces a three-week recovery period. Didier Deschamps, the France coach, said: “I am extremely sad for Karim who made this World Cup a major goal. Despite this new blow for the French team, I have full confidence in my group. We will do everything to meet the huge challenge that awaits us.”

The injury-hit World Cup holders, already without Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kanté, begin their defence against Australia on Tuesday. Deschamps has until Monday to call up a replacement for Benzema, with the Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder one option.

Benzema had hardly played at all in recent weeks and this was his first full training session with Les Bleus. Since winning the Ballon d’Or last month he has played fewer than 30 minutes for Madrid. He was France’s top scorer at the 2014 World Cup but did not play in the victorious 2018 World Cup campaign because he was still exiled from the team for his involvement in a sex tape extortion scandal that shocked French sport. He returned for last year’s European Championship, and finished as France’s top scorer.

Deschamps has seen his squad riddled with injuries. Forward Christopher Nkunku was injured just minutes before the end of the team’s last training session on Tuesday evening and replaced in the squad by Randal Kolo Muani. The coach also has an anxious wait to see if his best central defender, Raphael Varane, is fit to face Australia, exactly a month since he limped off for Manchester United with a hamstring injury.

Fellow World Cup winner and central defender Presnel Kimpembe pulled out on Monday after failing to prove his fitness following a hamstring injury.

 

[Webster]

(yay, Welsh dragon!)

England and Wales plan to defy Fifa with OneLove armbands at World Cup

Harry Kane and Gareth Bale are expected to still wear armbands in support of LGBTQ+ rights after Fifa announced its own slogans

www.theguardian.com

The England captain, Harry Kane, and his Wales counterpart, Gareth Bale, are to defy Fifa by wearing “OneLove” rainbow armbands in their World Cup matches, after the governing body launched its own “social campaign” on the eve of the tournament.

 

[PGen98]

The Guardian: Karim Benzema ruled out of whole World Cup in major blow to France

Massive loss for France! Still a super strong squad, but he's absolutely irreplaceable for them.

England and Wales plan to defy Fifa with OneLove armbands at World Cup

Harry Kane and Gareth Bale are expected to still wear armbands in support of LGBTQ+ rights after Fifa announced its own slogans

www.theguardian.com

Nice! Never hurts to have a little support now and then, even if it's a bit of virtue signalling.

 

[Webster]

even if it's a bit of virtue signalling.

That's what always gets me whenever the Right blasts someone for standing up for something; even if you can't do more, you should always try to do something.

Even if its' symbolic, do something.

 

[PGen98]

That's what always gets me whenever the Right blasts someone for standing up for something; even if you can't do more, you should always try to do something.

Even if its' symbolic, do something.

Agreed, don't even need to fight for it, just show an inkling of care.

 

[Webster]

 

[PGen98]

It would be hilarious if that was used against him to be imprisoned.

 

[Webster]

The Guardian doesn't mince words in their live-blog to today's Qatar-Ecuador match....

Hello and welcome to the greatest sham on earth. Qatar 2022: the tournament that puts the ‘vile’ in ‘violation’. It’s a despicable farce – part sinister power trip, part Chris Morris satire – and comes with a human cost that is acceptable only to those with a disease of the mind. But it’s also a World Cup, the greatest show on earth, so there’s a fair bit of the old cognitive dissonance flying round. Rampant human-rights violations, World Cup. World Cup, rampant human-rights violations.

 

[Webster]

Couldn't agree more....

Pitbull ruining the 2014 World Cup before it had even begun. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

 

[Webster]

 

[Webster]

@Nebulous, is this you?

 

[Webster]

5, 6 minutes in and we already have a bull---- call from the refs - in favor of the home team ....
It was a sketchy offsides call....yeah, sketchy...and Serafin's gonna win an LGBTQ Ally award from the Human Right Campaign....