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This Winter World Cup Is Proving Why Sports and Politics Will Forever Mix
Despite our best efforts….
I am a massive football fan.
Scratch that.
I am a die hard football fan.
And at times like these when the world cup is on, everything takes a backseat.
When I say everything, I mean everything.
Side projects, deliverables and competing deadlines are playing a second fiddle to the quadrennial tournament being held in the Middle-East.
You would be forgiven for thinking that my appetite for a competition being played against the backdrop of FIFA’s corruption scandals and Qatar’s socio-political issues would be diminished or non-existent?
Nope.
What this world cup has shown is that millions of us around the world don’t really care about the hot button topics such as gay and migrants rights, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
In Britain, we have a Conservative government that is stridently anti-migrants and we shouldn’t forget that it was in October that we had a very senior British politician who came out to say that she dreamt of the day when loads of illegal migrants would be shipped off to Rwanda.