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Because as I said in my post this morning it’s never ending, will they wear an arm band, will they take the knee, will they wear a shirt with love in it, they’ve all bailed out, except for Denmark I believe, once they knew it was going to have a negative impact on the team so it’s all a pointless exercise in virtual signalling. They’re not standing up for or against anything. And we seem to be left with the cop out “well at least we’re having conversions” brilliant! Discussing it on BBC to the UK audience by people in Qatar being paid to be there. It’s ridiculous.

It’s you who seems to be arguing with me pal. I completely agree with much of what you said. Perhaps I should ask you what exactly you are arguing with me about?

The French looked decent. Going to take some stopping

By deciding not to wear an armband when we realised it might negatively impact our result you mean?

Indeed we’ve had numerous new threads reminding us what a terrible country this is, yet we have the nerve to call residents of other counties savages and believe that it’s our job to educate them.

No need to apologise. Unlike some people on here the three of us find meaningless token gestures rather pointless, especially when they are withdrawn at the first sign of opposition. Too bad the more gullible amongst us suck it and believe it’s some sort of amazing stand to educate the world with our superior way of life

Remember as Soggy put it the other day “isn’t it our job to educate these savages?” Surely this isn’t just restricted to those in Qatar?

A fifa ruling, they share a pot of money with fifa club members and clubs get a fee per day per player for the length of time a player is at the World Cup, starts just before and finishes when the players country gets knocked out.

Well I certainly get it from you

Apart from you it seems…

Everytime you put the frigging telly on, he’s wearing a love armbands, they’re not wearing their shirts etc etc

Why did we want Qatar to lose because they ban homosexuals but wanted Saudi Arabia to win even though they ban homosexuals? This virtue signalling is very difficult to keep up with 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

Terrible result for equality 😢

Surely if we support LGBT rights we should want the Saudis to lose.it’s illegal there too you know

Can people just STFU now about armbands and rainbow hats FFS. Some random Scottish football going on now on GMB. “It’s unbelievable” etc etc, no it isn’t it’s the laws of the country.

No not when Cortese was in charge. Then we had Virtually zero income from corporate revenue, an adidas template kit that you could buy with out the saints badge on for £15, a sponsorship deal with the largest recruitment company In Chilworth, a training ground worth £20m that cost £40m and was 2 years late, hundreds of thousands of pounds spent in out of court settlements. Shall I go on?

One time Saints target Weston Mckenie playing for the US

Can’t wait to hear the US of A sing this one again, pure class. any chance of getting it going at SMS?

Consistency MLG

Didn’t spot the one on McGuire though did it…

Where are they in the league? It’d be great to get into the WSL

“It’s our job to educate the savages” 🤣🤣🤣

It’s a bit of a special one for me and I imagine for you as well as it’ll be the first one they remember. It’s such a shame it’s a really crap one in the winter and has been overshadowed by all the politics rather than it being what it should be. Mine was Mexico 86, I was the same age as mine is now. Such good memories.

I’ve got today and tomorrow off. Having a breakfast at the golf club this morning, back to watch the game. My son has football tonight at 5 so will miss the second half of the Netherlands game but back for wales v USA. His school are showing the match in the classrooms which I thought was a nice tough.