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Where are the players in their role as activists? They could be the most effective group of people in changing the culture of corrupt governing bodies but they are weak and I would argue complicit by being part of the circus.
It won’t happen but given that they do nothing to advocate for fair treatment for fans can’t understand why fans wouldn’t refuse to support them on the field of play.
This will be the second World Cup I won’t watch any games after the players cowardly stance on the rainbow captain’s armband in Qatar. I don’t support players wearing such an armband but if I did once they agreed to wear them if I had been the England captain I would have suggested to all the England players we all enter the field wearing the armbands to call FIFA’s bluff. Yellow card us one and all, oh and by the way we are still not removing the armband. What now FIFA?
I would have also reached out to other team captains asking them to mimic our team’s stance. Surely if you really believed in the cause you were fighting for you’d be willing to take a yellow card. Players could make a difference if they really gave a toss.
So they will have 3 games in one week? How terrifying. Was in Seattle Tuesday night to watch the Boston Bruins they then played a home game on Thursday against Calgary and a lunchtime game today against the New York Rangers.
Tomorrow morning I am flying from Portland to Boston to see them play an evening game against Pittsburgh which means they have played 4 games in 6 days across 3000 miles and 3 time zones.
We will see 2 further games on Tuesday and Thursday before we head back to Oregon while the team plays in Chicago next Saturday. Footballers really are so soft.
If I Marseille it would be Nice if we could get a Brest of the situation and have a cup run. If we could get to Wembley we could all say we were Auxerre in years to come.
My goodness England do almost everything so slowly. They largely may make the right decision but most of the time they are so labored that teams get time to reset and then backwards we go.
Been watching the Colombia vs Argentina game and what a difference in pace and decision making. I thought the game would be slow given the weather is 30c with 80% humidity but it has a great energy to it.
Half time so have switched to Ecuador vs Peru and they too are exhibiting way more pace and energy than England even playing at 9300ft elevation.
Dulwich Hamlet……Our school (Willam Penn) playing fields (Greendale) backed onto their stadium and a few of us would also climb into their ground and play games some Sundays.
Was there as well with my mate who was Tottenham. We stood on the Shelf and the atmosphere was mint. He later started going to R’s games with me including trips to Bury, Villa and Southampton.
When I first began supporting the R’s as a 6 year old after attending my first match (grandad took me as his team Spurs team and Millwall, our local team, were playing away) and for 2-3 years afterwards my footballing affection was shared between QPR and Ipswich.
It seemed to disappear after attending my first game alone at home to Everton as a 9 year-old 1-1 draw Gillard 53rd minute equalizer after Bob Latchford scored. Been QPR ever since.
Another one is I got the match ball after our 1-0 League Cup defeat at Bury and together with a Chelsea mate who went to the game with me and a London based Forest fan we met at Manchester Piccadilly we got on a train to get out of Manchester before the 12:45am mail train to Euston as lots of Citeh fans were looking for agg.
We get a train that takes us to Crewe knowing said mail train will arrive later and climb into Gresty Road have a kickabout on their pitch and nick a load of food and drink from a stadium snack bar for the trip home.