The World Cup In Qatar Is The Most Corrupt Sporting Event Ever | The Russell Howard Hour
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- From The Russell Howard Hour, I delve into the corruption and controversy surrounding the World Cup in Qatar.
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What's most insulting is that FIFA have had 12 years to overturn the decision to give it to Qatar, but have stuck with them.
imagine the cash they have reaped in those 12 years.
It pisses me off so much. Corruption and bribery were PROVED but they just went oh well too late now. There need to be consequences for this kind of stuff FFS!!
@@ekaruna42 ---There will be no accountability unless the people stop going to the games and supporting FIFA. Stop giving them money and they will vanish.
Money talks !
@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 I'm not giving them any money myself. But it bugs me that they don't have to answer to anyone. People are usually held to account by the law not the public.
Imagine England winning the cup, and not having to mention it EVER again cause of Quatar
It still gets mentioned 😂 no one will care
Growing up, we used to play a game when England matchs were on.
"Count how long until someone mentions 1966"
I think the high score was about 20 minutes 🤣
the location doesn't effect the achievement
It's better than them winning and we never hear the end of it.
It’s Qatar..
As a Brazilian born, futebol is my life. I live and breathe it. But I just can't deal with everything I have read about this scandal. FIFA is shitting on a beautiful sport that is loved in the whole world. And us, fans, are left in the dust. Repugnant!
A bit early for this isn't it. Why didn't you remember this when China,Russia hosted the world cup when they both do atrocities against humanity. Ironically when Brazil hosted the world cup people were dying left and right due to corruption and bad infrastructures.
@@245xanxus Its about the corruption that they used to buy the World Cup in the first place.
@@245xanxus same when Russia was banned from the Olympics a few years ago for their intolerance of homosexuals, but Jamaica was still allowed to compete. I think a lot of people just pick and choose which monster to hate.
@@245xanxus 6500 migrant workers died in Qatar due to poor working conditions in building fifa stadiums. This is just official stat, we don't even know the real stat. All of them from pakistan Bangladesh India. All were treated like animals
@@dynamitebsb4520 russia killed more than 2 million Syrian yet they hosted the world cup and no one cared so why the hypocrisy.
Thanks Russell for this illuminating piece.
The fact about migrant workers dying is worse than Russell makes it seem, those 6,500 workers were from 5 countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives) this doesnt include African workers or Southeast Asian workers.
What?! Why?!
6500 workers dying from ALL causes in a country with two million migrant workers? How is that meant to be a massive issue? The UK's migrant workers have a higher death rate than that.
@@DNRTannen Likely because the majority of enslaved workers come from those 5 countries
I'm pretty sure there's only so much he's allowed to say without violating terms. This is being broadcast on live television, and making people aware of exactly how bad everything is? Can't do that! We can't be holding big governing bodies like FIFA accountable for their actions!!! ._.
The state of this world is ridiculous.
@@aiden3648 It's not live, its recorded and Sky's lawyers read his script and basically say, you can say that, you can't say that.
Same with BBC and Frankie Boyle on the early years of Mock the Week, most of his jokes were not shown on TV, but on DVD's it's a different story.
The worst thing is that people will buy the tickets, watch the games even though they know exactly what's going on in Quatar. I fear deep down they care more about their own interests than doing the right thing.
Agreed. If you really love football, you will not watch this tournament.
It's football I don't give a fck where it is,stop crying you don't live there It's none of your business 🙄
@DjRampant sound like you've gone for one too many headers in your lifetime
I'm definitely not watching it
Oh waw, you think ? A bit like when we eat burgers despite knowing full well how meat is produced ? And finding every possible excuse to justify it, like "gastronomy is culture" or some pseudo-paleo notion that we'd starve ourselves if we stopped ?
DJ rampant here is at least being honest in his braindead jerk who doesn't give a fuck attitude, assume that deep down anyone who is a fan (of football or anything else) thinks like that.
As a Qatari, as hard as it is to admit, the country’s not right for the World Cup, money’s they only thing that supports it.
As resident in this beautiful land welcoming country, it’s the best place to host the World Cup, it should have been sooner. Everywhere it’s been held, except in the Middle East. Football is so extremely populair in the Middle East, and now for the first time it’s never been closer. I’m proud it’s in Qatar, and if it took money to get it done, so be it…. It should have been held in the Middle East a lot sooner. Let’s show the world how beautiful the Middle East is ❤️🇶🇦🇳🇱
@@reservoirdogz87 That is a bullshit
- Van Gaal
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There r better place in middle east than Qatar. It could have been done in Israel & UAE jointly. These r the 2 freedom place in middle east for all.
@@surojeetchatterji9966 The apartheid state that holds millions of fellow human beings in permanent stateless captivity? Worse than Qatar.
@@rais1953
What that even mean ? 🤣🤷♂️ who r captive there 🤣🤷♂️. How a democracy can be apartheid instead of sharia monarchy apartheid in Qatar & many Muslim countries?
“Ah yes. The floor here seems to be made of floor”
I think England should turn around and say "No thanks! See you 2026!“ 😒
Then they’d ok bye, England ain’t that important yk
if they done that, being from Scotland l'd support England from then on
Italy did :)
They've dodged a shytey bullet this time.
I think everyone should!
@@p____p4tel Good! As one of the best team player countries along with Brazil and those that preserve skill over corporate player heros I hope their example is followed.
Corruption is prevalent everywhere the filthy rich roam.
Join the dots people, join the dots. This World cup is such a massive clue to show us in what direction our world is heading.
most of the world thinks it's heading to a good place i believe! where 12 year olds aren't allowed to mutilate themselves
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The stadiums just won't get used after the World Cup as well, so the whole thing is just pointless.
Which is all the more reason to watch. If nobody would watch it, it will have been even more pointless.
@@wilhelmdietz4023 it's exactly the reason NOT to watch it!
@@wilhelmdietz4023 Stop it... get some help.
They will be used mate
@@itsafunnyoldworld Sure, if you want those 6,5k workers to have died in vain without making an impact on anything or anyone.
not to forget all that climate consciousness and "dont heat your home above this temperature" meanwhile "How about we have a sports competition thats physically exhausting and requires grass in the middle of a fucking desert"
Yep. We have a friend that went to work in Qatar for some place.. The guy set up an RDA (riding for disabled) because there was nowhere for his disabled son to ride a horse, so he imported some from the UK.. They clearly have money since the barns are all marble flooring, the horses have air cons and imported hay. They do live well but our friend said when it drops to 17C temp for "winter" they're all getting their thermals on. 🤣
The country is very rich, though like everywhere else, its the people that ruin it. I understand being religious, but religion is meant to be personal, you can't inflict on peoples human rights because your religion doesn't agree with certain things. Whether it be abortion, homosexuality or eating pigs. Humans do have the right to live as they are. 🤷♀️ unfortunately some countries, particularly those in the middle East, do not agree with these things.
@@Kat-mu8wq the Middle East isn’t the only restrictive region though? How about France with their burkini ban? And I’m sure they’re not the only country in Europe that has done that. What about Poland and America with their homosexuality and Abortion laws? What the middle east is doing isn’t exactly ethical but the rest of the world is not perfect either.
@@hi-ls6lt I never said it was the only place but the reason its restrictive in the middle East is due to their religion, nobody else's religion or beliefs are allowed basically. Their laws are pretty much made around the religion
The likes of France the bans are due to fear because of extrememists from these religions. Guaranteed if middle Eastern terrorists didn't use Islam as an excuse, France wouldn't ban burkas and what not.
@@Kat-mu8wq yeah but these bans aren’t effecting the terrorists, they’re affecting women. France want “integration” but these women (many of whom are in controlling marriages) won’t be able to integrate because their husbands won’t allow them to leave the house if they look like a “slut”. Also the Middle East, while maybe not now has not always been so restrictive on other religions.
My mom grew up in 90s Iraq with her best friend being a Christian Armenian and having a large Christmas tree at school and in their neighbourhood.
This man never ages, and I love he is bringing awareness!
That John-Lewis chant brought me back, we used to sing it to him back when he was with grimsby town too 🤣
6:59 surely I'm not the only one who killed themselves laughing at "His name is a shop..." 🤣🤣🤣
If you liked that, look for funniest football chants on TH-cam and have a blast
Not interested in football but that was an amazing chant!
I think you have to be British to get the joke, right? Because I didn't get it.
@@wilhelmdietz4023
Yeah, we have shops called John-Lewis
It is the only thing that actually made me laugh out loud😅😅😅😂 it was brilliantly inspired!
As an Aussie with little interest in any sport, including "soccer" I now understand why John Oliver is so scathing about FIFA
You really can't take this sketch comedy as a reference about what is REALLY happening in Qatar.
@@jimbim4405 i did not spot a single lie about what's happening there tho? So why would he not be able to
@@jimbim4405 sounds like you don’t know what happens over there. Maybe educate yourself
@@tobbcittobbcit8899 If you want an intelligent response, I will gladly oblige. But PLEASE - read and understand my answer before responding, if you wish to. I never said there were lies, however it is crammed full of half-truths. Twisted and ill-informed half-truths. Tons and tons and tons. In fact the entire sketch is largely based on twisted half-truth. From the simply wrong - such as the "fact" that Qatar is air conditioning the country and the stadiums. WRONG!! That was indeed the initial proposal 12 years ago, but that got shelved when the world cup was switched to winter, for precisely THAT reason. To half-truths like you can't drink alcohol inside the stadiums. YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN THE UK EITHER!! You can't roll around in public drunk, well - YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN THE UK EITHER!! In the UK you have seriously impeded rights about what you can and can't do i public too, so its an equal playing field. Now..... How many employees have died in direct connection with the world cup? Well, in fact that would be 15, 3 of whom were not in good health to start with. As to how many workers have died in Qatar as a whole since the WC was awarded, then he's close to the truth, but equally in the 12 years since they won the right to host the WC, over 1000 workers have died in the UK during the same period on building sites. I don't see THAT being linked to the WC. Sadly, construction is dangerous the world over, although it is true that using 'cheap' labour increases the likelihood. I could go on and on (I am known for that) but will end on the whole slave labour story. I am guessing that you have never actually spoken to any of these workers in your life, whereas I HAVE! And on numerous occasions. So when you are faced with a tired and admittedly over-used worker who claims that he is happy that he is - at last - able to feed his family back home where there is no work there, what do you say to them? All - and I mean ALL - workers connected with the WC are protected by a "Workers' Rights" regime that many European countries would do well to follow. It is strict, unremitting, and VERY closely monitored by the WC committee, who have a large department exclusively devoted to maintaining standards.
Next - is FIFA rotten? Yes indeed it is. But the UK played by the VERY same rules during the hosting competition that Qatar did - although they only got 2 pathetic votes (and you can see where the resentment and puritanism of UK PLC HAS COME FROM). Read into THAT what you will, but I know that there have been over 10 international investigations whIch have all unanimously agreed that Qatar's bidding committee did nothing wrong in their competition. Bin Hamam was found to have bribed.True, but it is equally true that not only was Bin Hamam NOT a member of Qatar's official bidding competition, but the competing delegates from Qatar's organising committee were obsessive about distancing themselves from him from the very outset of the competition, as they knew he was bent. Do they deserve to be tarnished by the same brush as him, just because they were Qatari too?
So my farewell comment is this... I am sick and fucking tired of Brits being holier-than-thou at precisely the time when they are holier than absolutely nobody in the entire universe. Qatar has come a L O N G way to addressing the issues they need to address in the 12 years since they won the hosting rights. Where the fuck has UK plc gone in the last 12 years????? (or even the last 12 days, bismillah)
@@jimbim4405 how much are Qatar paying you to lie for them?
I have been a big fan of soccer for a long time. This is absolutely disgusting to me, to see what fifa is doing to the sport and what qatar has done, I'm not watching this world cup.
Fun fact russell did you know all companies and contractors built world Cup in Qatar are European companies 🤔 🙄
Lusail Stadium, the main venue for this year's World Cup, was constructed jointly by Qatar and the China Railway Construction Corporation. Shaped like a date palm bowl and an enamel lantern, the stadium will host the World Cup final, scheduled for December 18.
It's like dèjavu with us South Africa 🇿🇦hosting WC 2010 and shortly after, ALL the corruption came out 🙄and that includes our own people 🙄
Honestly one of the best ways to learn politics is from this guy, but honestly shame on FIFA, built by the poor and taken from the rich, that is football now my friends
The way of most things sad isn’t it
Just like every other decent thing in life, then.
Sounds like a Tory thing.
Yeah with far left views
@@davidphan100 far left just means caring about community not just yourself.
Brilliant as always Russell
Showing the dark side is as good as also showing the bright side
I’m glad Russell has covered this. Not many others are, with both gary neville and david beckham supporting the world cup massively.
Song Brazil by Declan Mckenna
David Beckham has been brainwashed by Qatar 🇶🇦😳😳😳
They are both being paid to. Even worse.
Getting paid £250 million to do it too
People sell their souls for money. It will never change.
What disgusts me about the whole thing is that after all the bribery allegations and migrant worker deaths Fifa still proceeded with the World Cup there. They could have moved it to another country years ago but didn't.
its absolute disgusting couldent agree more, hopefully the super league will become a thing so we can see the end of Fifa
But ban russian teams , punishing athlete's instead of politicians
I agree, disgraceful, yet sadly not unbelievable.
Israel is running free in sport's!
And which country would be morally appropriate?
Not to mention the horrendous amount of construction worker deaths whilst these stadiums were being built. Complete disregard for health and safety and extreme violation of human rights. Qatar has an extremely small population so relies on migrant workers, who then get stranded in the country due to debt. It’s so horrific and a lot of these workers end up with serious health problems as a result of over-crowded accommodation (which is filthy), not enough money to buy nutritionally sufficient food and exposure to dangerous equipment.
I’ve been following the development very closely these past few years (related college assignment) and words can’t even begin to explain how angry and disappointed I am that little to no effort has been made to improve conditions for these people. Just goes to show how deeply corruption runs, and how willing others are to ignore it so long as their pockets remain full. I really hoped that some intervention or at least condemnation would be made by other countries but here we are. Fucking pricks.
we have known this since the World Cup was awarded, and what has been done about it, absolutely nothing. Football; fans that go should be ashamed of themselves
the situation is out of the fan's hands......might as well go and watch if you want to
dont worry there won't be many, they don't even have enough accommodation to fill one of their stadiums if every travelling fan combined yet alone two stadiums for each individual team. less than 200,000 hotel spots for fans in a tournament where 1.5 million were originally expected to go
4:41 - that montage killed me. Thanks for the laughs, Russell, and for keeping us sane in this increasingly insane world.
You think the worlds "increasingly insane?" It used to be much worse thats for sure
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty funny but joking aside. Let’s break down the criticism that Qatar is receiving and expose the hypocrisy in each one:-
1) Thousands of worker died building the stadiums. The Guardian who was first to publish that number said it’s for everyone who died in Qatar from 2010 to 2021 and can’t say for sure if that was due to the world cup but because big stadiums were being built it’s safe to assume they died while building them. Qatar official number on the other hand is just 3. So what is the truth? Apparently the guardian forgot something called Covid 19, forgot that people die from all kind of reasons car accidents, heart attacks, get electrocuted, drown, cancer, drugs, alcohol. etc. To make that jump and assume everyone who died died because they were working on the stadiums is bigoted conclusion that has ill intended agenda behind it.
2) Qatar doesn’t welcome the LBGTQ+ community. While Qatar has strict laws about public behavior they are in no shape or form against gays per se, if a hetro couple indulge intimately in public they may get in trouble equally. However in the privacy of their hotels no one cares or is going to care. In fact men in the middle east can hold hands in public and they won’t be judged like here in the US. Kisses on the cheeks are also common within the same gender. People are friendlier and less judgmental. And FYI 7 previous hosts of world cup had laws against homosexuality, where was the outcry then?
3) No alcohol. CNN ran a report recently saying alcohol kills one in five in the US for all those who are under 49. Pretty shocking! Isn’t it? I personally would rather no alcohol period, we can enjoy a soccer game without poison, but as I understood the Fifa announcement Qatar allowed alcohol in the stadiums and in the hotels and some other avenues, but did’t allow it in the perimeters of the stadiums, to comply with their conservative Islamic view and to reduce chances of riots by drunk fans. Are you so distressed by not able to drink from the moment you leave the stadium to the moment you get to your hotel? Seriously.
4)Human rights in Qatar and lack of democracy . People who talk about this need to be honest with themselves. Have they felt the same during the winter Olympics in China while the Uyghurs Genocide is under way and till this day? Have they called to boycott the Israeli soccer team after 74 years of occupation and Apartheid against the Palestinians? Last week Israeli media confirmed tgat Israel used biological warfare against the Palestinians, but all western media liberal and conservative ignored the story, Etc. So why the double standard?
5) Qatar spent 200 billions to host the world cup which will go to waste afterwords. Not sure where that number came from but who cares, if they are rich and can afford to make this event successful unique and memorable why is that a bad thing? Especially to us who are not paying for it. Instead I would say Thanks for your generosity.
6) Qatar is not environment friendly and its economy is based on fossil fuel. Please put your money where your mouth at and don’t fill your car with gas. Because that gas comes from these places. Also protest having 100 cereal brands in your local grocery store. And while at it don’t ever fly to anywhere in the world, but we know you won’t do any of that.
7) Qatar is tiny. Good you can watch two games in the same day.
Finally since when people around the world have to be cut and paste of each other. We need to tolerate some differences once and a while. This world cup will be great in spite of the haters, I am sure of it. It’s all about soccer at the end of the day.
@mohammadsalman57 doesn't Qatar have the death penalty for being gay?
The whataboutism seen from supporters of Qatar is out of control. Yes, every country has a problematic history and present, but that doesn't mean that Qatar is in the right. They aren't even trying to do better.
Very well said Russell.
Imagine watching the cup and not caring that it was built on dead slaves
Unfortunately, many conveniences and luxuries of modern living come from abominable exploitations somewhere else, almost always the third world.
that's how journalists, coaches, and football players will act
what if it was programmed in the USA , would you think about Iraq s invasion and the death of innocent Iraqi people by the American army ?
Who’s gonna tell him that every world cup was built by immigrants workers
it’s an absolute lie which has been regurgitated by social media and silly news articles. The number is at minimum 3, and at most 35 dead from BUILDING stadiums. It came from a bullshit Guardian article in which the headline stated that 6500 dead in Qatar since World Cup awarded. It was misinterpreted and twisted by everyone as 6500 died building stadiums. It’s untrue. It’s 6500 total deaths of south East Asians from all causes, including non work related deaths since Qatar were awarded the World Cup. That includes everything from car accidents to natural death from old age. The “6500” number is just bullshit propaganda. People can hate Qatar. I don’t care. But do it for a better reason instead of some some shitty made up lie.
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa left Cape Town with a large white elephant stadium that dominates the skyline and is not used often since the local sport clubs have their own stadiums. The city originally argued for the refurbishment of the local soccer club's stadium but FIFA wanted a new stadium with Table Mountain as a backdrop and got it.
@The Yorkshireman Reacts Its relevance lies in the fact that it shows a pattern of elitist abuse from FIFA. WHO decides who sits on the "Board" or "Ruling Council" or whatever term is used, of FIFA?
@The Yorkshireman Reacts all the new stadiums in qatar built by slaves will endup as bus depots in 2023
It's used for rugby as well as other events. It's not as bad as you make it seem
Not to mention all of the stadiums Brazil had to build in cities without teams to use them. Hosting the Soccer World Cup is a bad deal for the country, on the other hand countries can actually profit from hosting the Rugby World Cup.
Where do football teams play their cup finals? Where does the South African national team play? Where does Cape Town hold concerts?
I bought tickets to the wold cup for £70 and £200 for the epl
I'm genuinely curious now how Qatar is going to handle a ton of westerners coming in for a major event?? They have laws where unmarried men and women can't touch, and can't stay in a hotel room together. You can't be drunk in public, you have to dress "modestly", being gay is illegal...how will they cope with all these laws being broken en masse? Because I feel that's inevitable here.
They should never have been allowed to host the tournament in the beginning.
FIFA corruption... just another Saturday.
This will be the first world cup i havent watched since i started watching them in 1990
And what is that going to achieve? The people who built the stadiums are still dead, and the tournament will still be played in Qatar regardless of what you do or how you protest. You're just hurting yourself by not watching 🤣
@@j_james_01 he is a pick me dont worry
@@j_james_01 It would be more hurtful for me to watch it and know that I'm part of this cesspool. Fuck FIFA.
@@j_james_01 You weaken your nation
@@Gnaaal Who cares, watch or don't watch, no one will miss you.
Well said
Well said Russell!!
"I can't believe how badly they misspelled Eileen!" I died laughing. No seriously, I was laughing so hard I forgot to breathe for a few moments
who tf is eileen btw , im not british so can you enlighten me please
But you are worse because you can’t pronounce any foreign names, places or food. At least it was only one name unlike you who can’t speak more then one ir two language!!! At least they can speak English unlike you who doesn’t have any knowledge. So who is the top clown!! You!!!😂😂😂🤣
@@thedarthlord7724 He was joking about the song "Come on Eileen" because they spelt 'come' wrong
This video needs to be on world news
I'm in Thailand, does that count as world news?
No, it is not "world news". It is in the right place here, reaching out to a small handful of brainwashed fools. A question these commenters never ask, is if conditions are so bad in Qatar, why do so many millions of workers go there? It's because the low levels of income in their home countries make Qatar wages attractive to these workers. Wages are low in Qatar by western standards, but they are still much higher than in the home countries of these workers - otherwise they wouldn't bother going. Why doesn't even one of these celebrity band-wagon types do an honest comparison with what they were getting BEFORE they went to Qatar? But no, you'll never see that, because that doesn't fit the woke agenda. People like Russell Howard live in the West and enjoy a fabulous lifestyle, and these videos aren't honest, they are just cheap virtue signaling designed to make them popular in the eyes of the woke industry.
Another 'Self-Righteous Brit' that sees the entire world through his eyes and wants no cultural diversity whatsoever. Ain't it enough what your country's leaders have done to biodiversity? I'm not even getting into what your ancestors have done but its worth mentioning that the British empire once ruled over what we now call Qatar. So, now that they've gained their freedom from your people, they've managed to grow their nation into the richest in the world. Perhaps you cant stand looking at the average Qatari -a backwards qunt in sandals- driving the latest Lamborghini? Every single Qatari today is set for life, and they are encouraged to diversify their investments so as to ensure that their entire progeny remain like bloody thorns in those evil eyes emanating with envy. Pockets fat, eating good, living life. Let your women give it a try and be treated like a Qatari wife for a night; I bet you that 7 times out of 10 women pick the life of that wife.
Of western hypocrisy and salty tears
Wow, Russ seems genuinely pissed off. Love it ❤️
Guys I live in Qatar. Believe me it's not the utopia it presents itself to be
Russell please keep highlighting truth through humour. You are a star ❤️
The people who became rich from the suffering of slavery are preaching to others 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 give the kohinoor and all the other gems back give the Artefacts back give the wealth back. The audacity 😒
@@fadkabari8554 Maybe learn some history instead of listening to random slew on the internet. That Diamond wasn't stolen by Britain. In fact, out of the many times the Koh-i-Noor has changed hands, we're one of the only ones that have obtained it without stealing it. Go and preach your hollow activism somewhere else. Or, you could come try and take it back yourselves if you've got the balls 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@fadkabari8554 lol I am sure Russell Howard will get right on that . . .
@Fadka Bari shit mate, I should quit my job working at a supermarket. I didn't realise I was stinking rich and owned gems! Thanks for letting me know. I'll let all my English friends know to, they didn't know they owned Indian gems either. We're so rich over here. I spent a whole £3.50 on a sandwich yesterday 😱
Oh you mean the government and the Royal family who have nothing to do with us normal working English people and don't care about us. But yes keep taking it out on normal people you stupid fudding bell end
It's normal though for megastructures to have fatal accidents. But those countries didn't complained nor the family members of the deceased. It's only logic that they have been well compensated like most other fatal work place accidents in building megastructures all over the world. Only idiots that believe this Caucasian biase report. I don't see anyone complain abt the slave labour in china. Contracted by Nike and many other tech companies from USA.
My dad actually worked out there for a bit of labor a few years ago they literally built a city for the world cup and it is expensive as hell out there. It's built to be a fancy show-off city.
That city is where one of the 8 stadiums stands for the WC ......loll
Ask your dad about the truth of their country and their culture then. Not the woke Brit melon who knows squats about anything.
But you lot love their money that’s why you run to Arab countries and then have audacity to complain . They don’t force you to go and work there. You go because you are greedy.
Well said Russell
50% laying ,20% ignorance ,20% pure stupidity and 10% funny I'll give you that
This is why, despite it being my favourite sporting event, I am not watching the world cup. Thanks for talking about this, Russell.
I want to give it a miss as well, if I can get a few mates to join me or if I can get them to limit the games they watch I'd call that a win, but the sneaky f*cks would just watch it behind my back. lol
Lol u dudes 😂😂😂👌
Colonised half the world...
80 years later.... "how dare them Arabs build a stadium and not look after their workers."
Don't worry in a few years time you'll be queuing up.... Trying to emigrate there!
@@sabtaingopinath9652 Using whataboutism? Grow up mate, Im not English nor do I live in the UK, in fact you'd find that Im someone who's country was a victim, this is whats wrong with ppl these days, sticking your head in sand is just repeating the same mistakes, I bet in 80 years time or more another *sshole will use this same excuse to justify more corruption and slavery. GROW UP
The ignorant whiteboys pleas don't get butt hurt from my comments.
Times change.... Get with the programme.
@@sabtaingopinath9652 Both are/were bad. That doesn't excuse what Qatar and many countries like them continue to do.
It's amazing how much enthusiasm, people have. When it comes to sports. Unlike humanity.
Because it's a mini war. We are a very violent species.
Football is war without the blood. The more time passes, the more football fans get distant from the real world. Who cares about the workers, futbawwwwl
@@willallen7757 no we are not.. violence is the exception… it’s just modern media has warped you into believing that’s all there is. People do far more amazing charitable compassionate loving things everyday but they just dont make the news
@@liamblack2574 I don't know where you live but it must be nice and have large gates. I'm 51, I know what is going on and don't need anything explained to me, save your breath.
@@willallen7757 awwww find peace man… as you said…. You’re 51
Hello bandito no football what not .... Russel can I just say what a brilliant open influence of debate .
Thank you Russell for saying Men's World Cup
Thank you mate for bringing this up! 👍🏻
I love football but I won't watch this world Cup, it breaks my heart that such corruption won the bid
Those who have friends or family that brought tickets for this tournament convince them to put the tickets up for resale so they get there money back and don’t go that’s how to Boycott.
@@ahmedmehmood8462 someone then would go on their place how on earth is that a Boycott. what needs to happen is all the countries should withdraw from the world cup that would be a boycott would love to see Engalnd,portugal,Brazil,spain,argentina, and the rest turn around to fifa and say no we not playing in Qatar after the amounts of lives lost that would be amazing.
@@jag6696 but atleast you would morally be doing your bit to boycott and atleast your family members money isn’t gonna towards the tournament
The funny thing is Australia went from n big on their bid for this WC and lost. They complained and asked for an investigation into bribery and the inquest found no evidence of bribery by Qatar but bribery by Australia 😂
It's normal though for megastructures to have fatal accidents. But those countries didn't complained nor the family members of the deceased. It's only logic that they have been well compensated like most other fatal work place accidents in building megastructures all over the world. Only idiots that believe this Caucasian biase report. I don't see anyone complain abt the slave labour in china. Contracted by Nike and many other tech companies from USA.
One of the best world cup so far, eat your words.
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Russell you are a Legend 👌👌👌
Let´s boycott watching the world cup. The only way they will learn.
Highly doubt you would
Those who have friends or family that brought tickets for this tournament convince them to put the tickets up for resale so they get there money back and don’t go that’s how to Boycott.
@@nickevershedmusic8927 I sure will ( not a big football fan anyway)
@@herrgoldmann2562 thats why.
"I can't believe how badly they've misspelled Eileen!" !!!!! Yup, time to mop up the tea I just spit all over my keyboard!! 🤣🤣🤣
The British fans should boycott going to Qatar to watch the World Cup. If they can’t behave themselves there will be consequences…
Just me or does any else feel like whomever wins this worldcup wont really come out as winners or be remembered as a true world cup victory. Might aswell play barefeet on an unmarked beach anywhere else in the world than this
you've hit the nail on the head Russell
mate .... you are awesum .... thank you for using your platform to raise awareness...
love from Australia .. x
Just shows how unwilling people are to accept any amount of self sacrifice to try and make the world a better place.
Footballers, media, pundits etc happily hype up the importance of kneeling before games to support the fight against oppression, bigotry and suffering but the second an opportunity arrives to make a real stand against these things they shrink away from it.
Sitting on the floor for 60 seconds before you're paid 100 grand to kick a ball around means nothing if you refuse to boycott a world cup that has taken the lives of thousands of enslaved workers building the stadiums these players will be playing in.
Chilling in the sky sports executive box talking about how we need to do better as a society whilst being cut a nice fat paycheck for flying to Qatar to promote air conditioned stadiums and gloss over the unimaginable suffering required to build them is disgusting
Brilliantly said 👏👏
yep. if many top footballers refuse to play in qatar, maybe that would be something.
Those who have friends or family that brought tickets for this tournament convince them to put the tickets up for resale so they get there money back and don’t go that’s how to Boycott.
Paying lip service is all they're willing to do to save face when the backlash won't die down and their profits suffer. As soon as the noise dies down they go right back at it, if they ever stopped to begin with. That is the nature of corporate at its core no matter the form or medium they're in.
No one boycotted this WC. NO ONE!!
They've also been mass-killing stray animals and forcefully relocating homeless people and beggars from the area for years. :(
That kid kicking the ball in to the goal is too precious. Everyone is cheering and hes just looking around all confused. Im just sad Russell didn't do a bit about what was happening in that kids head "the person told me to kick the ball across this line, and now all these people are shouting at me"
The wee man puts his hands up at the end, he knows he's a hot shot!
I can't stand children and even I thought it was pretty precious and that's seriously saying something.
@@krashd takes a bit to realise though
It's all very true. Also interesting that no one has mentioned David Beckham's videos on TH-cam showing how wonderful Qatar is as part of the World cup.
Victoria Beckham is probably designing burkas!
Victoria should divorce him!!! Since he's obviously pro Quatar ( anti women's rights )
he is paid 10 million a year he is morally bankrupt
Do you know how much they paid him to say all that? 🤣🤣 but yet they couldn't afford to pay the migrant workers
He's the reason England lost the bid to host it - the presentation was him, Cameron and Prince Balding. They lost fair and square - that'll teach you to be arrogant!
i've never been interested in football, just never been able to get into it. even after 5 years working at a pub, it doesn't interest me. but i love how it brings people together. i watched the euros final at work and it held my atttention, because i was invested in people's happiness. i wanted england to win to hear the cheers and singing. football can bring out the best in people, and i don't have to care about the game to care about that. as a working class lesbian, i feel for all the football fans who can't go to see the world cup due to prices or worries for their safety. this corporate corruption is just awful.
Thanks Russell to support the labourers who have lost their life in building the infrastructure... thanks Russell to support the LGBTQ community...thanks Russell to be the voice of women females...this is the real guts...out of 6500 dead labourers 2500 r Indians 2000 r Nepalese and the remaining r pakistanis Bangladeshis srilankans...but no govt of these countries have raised a single question on Qatar govt on their labour policy...
The HIS NAME IS A SHOP chant killed me.
Another 'Self-Righteous Brit' that sees the entire world through his eyes and wants no cultural diversity whatsoever. Ain't it enough what your country's leaders have done to biodiversity? I'm not even getting into what your ancestors have done but its worth mentioning that the British empire once ruled over what we now call Qatar. So, now that they've gained their freedom from your people, they've managed to grow their nation into the richest in the world. Perhaps you cant stand looking at the average Qatari -a backwards qunt in sandals- driving the latest Lamborghini? Every single Qatari today is set for life, and they are encouraged to diversify their investments so as to ensure that their entire progeny remain like bloody thorns in those evil eyes emanating with envy. Pockets fat, eating good, living life. Let your women give it a try and be treated like a Qatari wife for a night; I bet you that 7 times out of 10 women pick the life of that wife.
So what?? That is great s shop and he name it whatever!!! Who are you to make fun?? Look at your own name . Parsons NOSE😂😂😂😂. That’s funny !!!
Russell howard is one of the most funniest comedians in Britain.
AGREED mate!!.. 👍🏼🤣🤣🤣
He is the worthy Bristolian successor to the Pythons and Lord Vader himself David Prowse
Yea BRUV 😅
*the world
@@thelibyaninnovator1411 Well he does rival Rowan Atkinson Eric Idle Terry Jones John Cleese Mike Myers Seth MacFarlane and the absolute kings of world comedy Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Russell Howard will 100% be watching it
The montage got me good
I laugh non stop 😂
Another 'Self-Righteous Brit' that sees the entire world through his eyes and wants no cultural diversity whatsoever. Ain't it enough what your country's leaders have done to biodiversity? I'm not even getting into what your ancestors have done but its worth mentioning that the British empire once ruled over what we now call Qatar. So, now that they've gained their freedom from your people, they've managed to grow their nation into the richest in the world. Perhaps you cant stand looking at the average Qatari -a backwards qunt in sandals- driving the latest Lamborghini? Every single Qatari today is set for life, and they are encouraged to diversify their investments so as to ensure that their entire progeny remain like bloody thorns in those evil eyes emanating with envy. Pockets fat, eating good, living life. Let your women give it a try and be treated like a Qatari wife for a night; I bet you that 7 times out of 10 women pick the life of that wife.
Then i guess Mancini did the right thing by making sure Italy didn't qualify for the Cup.
I'm boycotting it. I'll probably see or hear various results in the news, because that's unavoidable, but I can't in good conscience ignore the corruption and blatant disregard for health, safety and human rights that the tournament is made possible through.
Such a good woke boy. Here’s a cookie 🍪
@@nanadaimehokage9934 ouch. You're one of the people who thinks "woke" is a real word. Hahaha.
No alcohol allowed.
Here is the World Cup being hosted by a country with lots of intolerance for the very cultural things that permissive societies take for granted.
It is going to be interesting to see how well visitors from different cultures can quickly adjust and adapt to the environment they will be finding themselves in Qatar.
Like their intolerance is hard for us to understand it is just as important to know they are as equally shocked to see the way we live. So, perhaps the important thing here is to strike a balance between the two extremes of intolerance and permissiveness.
Like the saying goes, when in Rome...
Lmao I watched this video then went to a different one and got an ad for John Lewis 💀
Funny and witty, makes you think about the need of accountability at the top of football.
It's under the Kafala (Arabic for Sponsorship) system used by the Gulf states. The way it works is all migrant workers have to be sponsored, usually by their employer, and that sponsor is responsible for their visa and legal status. Sounds good on paper, and not unlike some of our own immigration laws, but what ends up happening is the workers pay for their own travel, and once they arrive, their employer (slaver) steals their passports so they can never leave. They are then forced into labour camps and work 12 hour shifts 7 days a week
And the remarkable thing is that despite this having being "revealed" thousands of times on social media every week for the last twelve years, not once has it apparently ever reached the ears of the millions of workers who still travel there or reached the ears of even one government official who might have protested through diplomatic channels. Either we are seeing the most remarkable co-incidence in the history of the planet, or the claims you make are total nonsense. I know which I believe.
@@daleviker5884 It's all desperation. All of the migrant workers come from poor areas where work is so hard to get and paying so poorly they likely don't have a choice. It's a case of would you rather sit in a scrap metal shack in the middle of a slum for the rest of your days or go work in a country that has promised you a decent wage and decent hours for just a chance at providing for your family. It's an inhumane trap exploiting others poverty
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Let's open up YOUR closets, Mate.
Loving the WC so far, No matter how loud the Media barks.
We have Americanized football.
No more is the game about passion and a local identity.
It's all about money.
Every North American sport is like this.
The cheapest tickets for many tickets at most top tier sporting venues will cost you anywhere from $100 to $250, Maddison Square Garden being at the top end of that list.
Unfortunately, when you price the tickets so only the richest people can attend, you loose any sort of atmosphere and any sense of a common shared identity amongst supporters.
I have been to NHL games in Canada that are atmosphereless. The organizers have to tell the people to cheer or even get them loud. It eventually seems to be forced fun.
You are never going to get people singing "throw the dildo on the pitch" in North America. Although, the Hamilton Tiger Cat supporters of the CFL would maybe have something similar.
This is what happens when you remove the working man from sport stadiums, they become boring places with little or no atmosphere.
Don't blame America for what Europeans did.
@@RubyDoobieScoo The US has spent the past century trying to change us from socialist to capitalist with every trick under the sun, so yes, we will blame them as our nations turn into corporate hellholes. Also UEFA is Europe, FIFA is the world, there are Americans on their board and they are constantly trying to wheedle in bullshit like naming rights for stadiums so they can milk footie for every extra coin in the same way they milk US sports.
Soccer has been a corrupt sport for many decades now. Don't go America bashing because your favorite children's activity is infested with dirty money. The sport is structurally corrupt and has long since stopped being a 'community" sport with a working class Spirit.
Not watching this one due to where it is being held. Nasty little county
The country itself is beautiful. But like everywhere else the people ruin it, they have let their religion create the laws. Therefore human rights have non existent.
anyone who buying tickets for the world cup, just one time thinks how it feels to the family whose son, father, brother or dear lost his life just for making a stadium for rich so they can show football.. worst type of killing of the thousands family for this stadium.. 🙏
Qatar; modern slavery world cup, hospitality, catering, domestic servitude etc. UK; Any nail bar, takeaway, car wash or HMO, same modern slavery. Only difference is you aren't arsed about the UK slavery, you call it diversity.
Killer last line. It's not just FIFA its every country, every team, every company, & every single one participating in this tournament. Shame on all of them.
Never thought I’d ever say this, but shame on The Socceroos for participating. Really disappointed. I do hope they find some last minute morals and forfeit all their matches.
Then shame on you for being English man/woman. Shame on your colonialism filled history, slavery fueled crimes in the 15 thru the 18th century and shame on your government for not supporting enough your Ukrainian neighbors. Just applying your very narrative twisting logic back at you.
@@osamamghazal I can't do anything to change history but I can try at every opportunity to do the right thing to change the present, as we all should.
Just because I'm using the English language don't presume I'm English. Likewise don't presume to know what I have or have not done for Ukraine. Have a nice day :)
@@RaglansElectricBaboon
Good … somehow not surprised by another eloquently wrapped answer. Then what about the immigrants who died at 12 European countries borders because they were either rejected to be accommodated or at least sent back to their countries in a human way? “the same Asian countries” mentioned in these types of videos. What about me having to respect and oblige by European countries’ laws and culture when I visit but I should literally change mine when hosting you for 28day event? Also if the Guardian really has “Qatari docs” that prove the direct relation between the laborers and WC construction work as they claim of the numbers of deaths, why not sharing a snippet of the copies. Having worked for the Globe media in Canada before I PROMISE you they won’t hesitate to do so if they have that evidence. What about being tormented in the airport, whether it’s me or a family member, even though I DO have a European citizenship because of my name? I’m not against standing for the right thing or defending human rights but this intention is highly questionable since it took everyone talking about homosexuality first, environmental issues second, and eventually, when they found out the country has been prepared and took serious measures to accommodate everyone, the construction workforce was their last resort to further their accusations. Why Russel hasn’t spoken and made that video one months ago, a year ago, 2 years ago, 3years ago…etc? All of a sudden he cares about those workers. I would genuinely respect his intentions if he’s someone who always stood for it but that’s not him or “a lot of people” intention
rather a hype train that “a lot” is milking for extra content and propaganda. PS: saying a lot so you don’t switch the topic and say I’m “presuming”
Looks like the only talking points the Qatari shills have are:
(a) whataboutism,
(b) construction is inherently dangerous
Both of which are super flimsy arguments.
Qatar just basically banned everything that makes football tournaments fun and enjoyable. What are they expecting people to do, just sit there and clap moderately every time a team scores?
According to your logic : sex and alcohol is fun in football not supporting teams and getting goosebumps from goals ! ugh
wow being drunk makes football enjoyable
@@surpriseddog fucking yes obviously it does, maybe not in your country but in most countries yes
@كات قيرل yeah
@كات قيرل what? That’s just football culture and has been for hundreds of years
Spot on!!
Okay not advocating Qatar, but did anyone check on those migrant workers and how they were living back in their own countries? These workers work for $1-2 a day in India / Pakistan, working without safety gear or even shoes, in the same heat they experience in the Middle East. These migrants then come to countries like Qatar, UAE, Saudi, etc to make 10x more, so their families can stay comfortable back home. If any issue is to be raised, first you can just get into the root cause of this problem. All big western giant companies should revisit the problem when they outsource their dirty work to Asia and Africa.
Unfortunately he didn‘t mention the strict guidelines on what reporters are allowed to visit or write and on where to talk to people and what to photograph…
Probably because it would have broken the strict guidelines on what reporters can say without a letter from FIFA legal...
If he talked about everything, you'd still be watching it all for the first time right now.
Top stuff as always Russell.
Brilliant and well said. Couldn't agree with you more. 👍
I don't watch the sport, but the people are fucking hilarious. And I love the good moments, like with the kid scoring a goal.
The only thing I agree with is how it was wrong of Qatar to buy the world cup, everything else is just BS. Qatar is a monarch country that's ruled by a king. They have their own rules and regulations. For people who haven't even been to Qatar, much less citizens don't get to decide whether they should ban LGBT rights or not. It's true Qatar is not the country you wanna go to if you want that freedom offered in democratic western countries. But that doesn't mean you get to choose how things are in another country. There are rarely any Qatari citizens who are unsatisfied with Qatar's laws. They provide free health care, a plot of land, education a well paying job and even more for their own citizens. They have their life easy. Plus LGBT bans are not gonna affect them much because it's a Muslim country and in islam it's not allowed to be homosexual. Not to mention banning LGBT has NOTHING to do with FIFA being corrupt. Different countries have different cultures. If you decide to live in one then respect it. And for the so called "modern day slavery" , NO one was forced to work in Qatar, they are migrants who came on their own will wanting to earn more cash. And yes as a construction worker your risk increases for casualties and most residents were un- aware of these numbers, I definitely agree for 10 years those are huge numbers. But Qatar is not the only country where people have died in the construction sites. Everyone coming to work in Qatar with a resident permit gets health care benefits that many countries won't even give their own citizens. Now as for the tickets being expensive, it's only expensive for outside Qatar ppl . The residents usually have it a lot cheaper (11 euros cheapest)and most of them even got it free. This is just hate towards Qatar for no reason.
What do you think America and many European countries were built by during their developing period? Shaming other countries now for developing by "slaves" wouldn't change the fact that many developed countries were built on it too.
As seemingly one of the few Brits in the country who isn't all too interested in football, is there anything stopping the World Cup teams from just flat out refusing to even go to the country? Also the horrific stuff going on in Quatar (especially the migrant worker deaths) is fucking appalling.
Yeah you sound like you nothing about football all right or the world for that matter.
Couldn’t care less about this World Cup and Russell’s just summed this corruption up massively!
Russel it's h n bandito I forgot how corrupt the system of this beautiful game can be ...
Beckham has been promoting Qatar for months now on TH-cam adverts.
I thought better of him, it's not like he needs the money.
Those who have friends or family that brought tickets for this tournament convince them to put the tickets up for resale so they get there money back and don’t go that’s how to Boycott.
He's so greedy
@@williamiwrn9569 Beckham is the sort of rich person I loathe - already stinking rich (140 million a few years back) but still ready to stoop as low as needed because Qatar offered him 10 million to promote it. Doing something questionable for a tenner when you only have 140 quid to your name is understandable, but doing something for 10 million when you are already worth an eighth of a billion is just greed, pure and simple.
I'm not into football, but I never had a reason to deliberately turn away from it, until this.
You're a kiwi, call it what it is, soccer.
@@RubyDoobieScoo It's football, not soccer just like a cupboard is a cupboard not a cabinet
Yeah get your info from a woke Brit melon who knows nothing about sports or politics
@@nanadaimehokage9934 Yeah, just use the word 'woke' for not wanting to go to Prison for showing affection, being a woman, being Gay, chanting and in general doing ordinary things.
Clown.
The qatar stadium building project has a death toll on the same scale as the pyramids. And this isn't even 3000bc.
This world cup has been a tragedy years in the making
The 6,500 is bogus.
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