Wow, so much nonsense in the last few pages.
Referring to the sportswashers as human rights violators (not even sure if Klopp did that, don't remember hearing it but I don't watch/listen to anywhere near as much as some) isn't xenophobic. It's accurate.
If it isn't reported, it certainly should be how many people died in the building of the venues for the World Cup. Whatever the number reported is, you can bet it'll be low. I have no doubt it's in the thousands.
Qatar isn't the UAE, but it's the same mentality and the same quasi-apartheid system for immigrants. Most of them are Filipino or other south Asian trying to make more money than they could in their home countries to send back to family, and the royals that run basically every aspect of their country abuse that motivation, often to the point of death.
I've been there, I've seen it. Well, not the worst, actually among the best, but that was bad enough. I worked for the Americans over a decade ago supervising/monitoring immigrants building on-base facilities and such. The conditions were poor but the immigrants were almost all very well-behaved despite being on a US military site because the conditions were so much better than they would get working for the Qataris. They obviously didn't have running water where they lived, or clean clothes. It was eye opening, to say the least.
I'll be watching very little of the World Cup, and while I know it's not my choice, I would encourage others to consider the same decision.
The UAE is the same. Saudi Arabia is the same. It's not because of ethnicity that I say that, because it's because they all have a similar authoritarian quasi-monarch that holds absolute power informed by a similar worldview.
Imagine if Klopp said all of that. None of it xenophobic, all of it undeniably true. Manchester City exists to be a emirati family's plaything, and to provide a facade of legitimacy to people who abuse human rights, and promote/live off an industry that is the primary cause of climate change. And they've been caught paying employees under the table to circumvent financial rules, they invent sponsorships that are obviously vehicles for direct cash injection from their owners, and who knows what else. All with money gained by destroying the planet.
And no one in the footballing world seems bothered. Not the PL, not the English crown-backed FA, not UEFA, and quite obviously not FIFA.
It would be a better world if Klopp was free to say *that*.
