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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It sucks but I wouldn't get caught up in that.
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I think there are many ways to describe slavery but it sucks wouldn't be one of the them.
Why not get caught up in it? Why not keep the issue of slavery, of the deaths of multiple migrant workers, of their human rights record front and centre for the whole tournament? Everyone should be getting caught up in it.
I'll watch it. I'll follow it. But I just know already that I won't have the same level of interest in it as prior tournaments.
Ireland did the decent thing and didn't qualify so I'll be shouting for Canada but more so for the Danes for taking the lead on a big feck you to the host nation and deciding to get caught up in it.
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Denmark will wear shirts at the World Cup that criticise the human rights record of the host nation Qatar, with a black option unveiled to honour migrant workers who died during construction work for the finals tournament.
“The colour of mourning,” the kit manufacturer Hummel said in a post on Instagram releasing the black third-choice design. “While we support the Danish national team all the way, this shouldn’t be confused with support for a tournament that has cost thousands of people their lives.”
The designs seem to complete a promise made last November by the Danish football federation [DBU] to wear clothing with “critical messages” at the tournament.
Though Fifa’s World Cup rules prohibit political statements on team uniform, the three Denmark shirt designs in all-red, all-white and all-black appear to comply, with no words or symbols that are an explicit statement. The national team badge, Hummel logo and decorative white chevrons – a famous feature of the Denmark shirt since the 1980s – are faded into the same single colour as the shirt, but remain visible.
“We support the Danish national team all the way, but that isn’t the same as supporting Qatar as a host nation,” Hummel said.
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https://www.theguardian.com/football...-rights-record