Once any: supporter, player, broadcaster, former players who are broadcasters et al, opt to travel to Qatar for their own benefit or amusement - they have decided to ignore the immorality of a nation which treats its women appallingly, its prisoners worse and its Christians worse still.
(Oh. They also appear over the top with their treatment of homosexuals.)
Every one of these travellers has placed him/herself wholly in the wrong. To then try to put a sticking plaster onto this gaping wound of transgression, by feeble virtue signalling, is not only monstrous but reeks of hypocrisy and double standards.
Where are the high-minded, principled men who turned down the trip - even though it might have damaged careers?
Where are the Eric Liddells of today, I wonder?
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Against this backcloth, we were presented on last night's TV (should we even have even been watching it on the box, I ask myself?) a fiasco which almost certainly guaranteed England a place in the final 16 in spite of an abject display versus the USA.
England were simply awful. Maybe all that virtue signalling, firmly attached to a heightened sense of self-preservation, is very draining.
