The Qatari trying to justify the 6,500 deaths is the most ridiculous thing in Gary Neville's "documentary". Whether the workers died on site or in the bunker with a heart attack, 6,500 dead people is still a mind-boggling amount. There's no spin you can put in it to make it sound better.
Gary Neville is out there, making bold political statements about society at large and football governance, rubbing shoulders with no less than Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the Labour Party, of which he is now a member, then he jumps into BeIn Sports as a pundit, with no regard to his personal integrity. He talks of wages of the average worker and of strikes for those who work in keeping our fragile national infrastructure together. He's the exact same as the people he holds to account. If he had a shred of morality as he purports to have, he'd quietly leave this role. He won't.
So at what yearly income do you have to change your moral and political beliefs? This is just the same stupid “well if you don’t agree with everything in society then you should just not take part in it” argument, it doesn’t make sense Neville is hardly a radical, but in his video I was impressed with the way he challenged the private companies that are exploiting the Qatari workers just the same way as the state is doing, that is raising a good point. That it’s just as much a problem with the Qatari government as it is with the corporations that exploit cheap labor everywhere around the world Currently this is a very difficult place to be ethical in
Neville is the perfect poster boy for mainstream media circles, occasionally does something that barely counts as a good deed if you are a normal person (criticising super league, campaigning for Labour), but he never actually challenges the status quo and instead actively reinforces it.
@@tommair5783 this makes his opposition to the tories even more bizarre, doesn’t agree with right leaning government policies but is fine to work for ultra conservatives in a tournament that was built on the blood of slaves. Absolute sham.
@@tommair5783 he's the main person trying to help the lower league's get more money from the premier League as he part owns a league two he knows how much abit extra could do to them clubs at league one and below
Irony is that when The SuperLeague was announced in the spring of 2021 Neville was most hawkish and critical of it and calling the clubs greedy but he just sold himself out to Qatar a coutry where human rights are broken officially.
Great video. The level of sarcasm and disdain is truly warranted for someone that's put his morals aside for Qatari blood money. Very much like his mate Beckham. I have been previously a supporter of Neville but this is hypocrisy of the highest level. Thank you for highlighting
As examples of creative writing, the Qatari stooges in Neville’s video were absolutely world class. I also enjoyed the segment where men following a woman round a supermarket were worryingly just described as ‘curious’.
as a woman, if i was followed around a supermarket for my own safety, I'd actually feel less safe. Good on Gary for... not addressing the issue because they're lining his pockets
Oh, he'll get it. While Neville is a hypocrite of the highest order, I consider David 'I'm Skint' Beckham's Qatar publicity job much much worse. In the end, it all comes to down to tons and tons of cash, which is essentially how Qatar got it in the first place.
Get ready for a wave of whataboutism. If you have any concerns about Qatar, idiots will just say "you're going to watch it aren't you" and then call you a hypocrite for caring about humans and football at the same time. This is among the sad lessons I've learnt as a Newcastle fan
Watching the World Cup certainly is up for debate and is the only thing that will make a real difference as it impacts fifas pockets directly. It’s tough and I probably will watch it because I love football especially World Cup football where you see players from Central America Asia and Africa that you’ve never seen before and could get huge moves from it and everything else that comes with it. However being a Newcastle fan is completely different, you were there and are more important than the owners are or ever will be, would be ridiculous for people to expect Newcastle fans to stop supporting them.
Any team which sells their soul for dirty money will lose something. I mean look at City - they're a great team but they're souless. It's just plastic. I've zero doubt Newcastle will win the league within 10 seasons at most, because at the end of the day they will just keep throwing money at it until it happens. Just as City did.
Sticking to one's principles is often difficult but nonetheless the right thing to do. Having made this video he would indeed be a hypocrite for watching it.
One point you mentioned which I believe strongly in: you can respect another persons culture whilst simultaneously questioning some aspects of it. It’s very important that we do respect other peoples culture, but you can do that whilst also saying “this isn’t right.” Not shouting, not painting people as evil, but just to talk people through why they believe that and why you disagree. Conversation not argument. Constructive not destructive
For most of history, islamic regions of the world have been more tolerant than Europe. It is not inherent to the Middle East, to be like this, and in an alternative universe, history looks very different. Authoritarianism, homophobia and sexism is not culture, and to frame it like that is deceitful.
@@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq The muslims i know, who grew up in the west, are no different in their morals and world view. It's only people who grew up in the authoritarian post-colonial states who are formed to hold terrible political views.
Like Norway, Scotland have been waiting to qualify for the World Cup since 1998. As close as we came, this is the only tournament I’ve not been bothered about not qualifying for during that time whole time.
@@toph8298 Indeed. I'm welsh, and the whole country is delighted we qualified. but at the same time devastated because frankly nobody wants to go. I'm a lesbian so that rules me out even if I wanted to go, and even my dad doesn't want to go despite it being a dream for decades
@@harleyt-l8977 lol, don't generalize, there are a lot of people who want to go, Qatar just rejected you cos you are lesbian and in their religion it's unacceptable so yh
I’ve got to admit that, after watching the full video, more than anything, the funniest part, and one I agreed with the most, was the view of James Cordon being unwatchably deplorable 😂
The selection process was in no way corrupt, Qatar are a very accepting and tolerant society, those migrant workers dreamed of dying building a stadium for less than a living wage in a desert. Glad we could clear all that up, well done fifa for the big brain pick. Big respect for all the players willing to overlook these quirks to kick a ball around 👏
@Funhistani the country is allied ofc, the people have absolutely no issue lambasting and bashing the country tho as long as their leaders still rub shoulders together
Nothing like hearing ex footballers telling us they are all for the working man, while putting out their hands to corrupt nations for the money. Excellent video as always, and I do sincerely hope Neville sees it.
Thank you Alfie again for an excellent video with really great points made. It’s so nuanced to look at human rights in the Middle East and you’ve done an excellent job in under half an hour by stating that Muslims are not homogeneous and do try risk their lives by bringing up human rights abuses consistently over the years. Plus again highlighting the stupidness of FIFA, Neville, and other apologists of obviously toeing the official Qatari line. It’s disgusting that there are still construction workers who are considered indentured servants despite the lip service paid to Human Rights and Workers Rights by the regime. The pure idiocy, or more likely sheer greed of FIFA in initially awarding the World Cup to this country and then Infantino compounds it by implying that football is so amazing it saves the world. Flipping heck I wonder what happened to the last host of the World Cup?
Although I was disappointed just from a footballing perspective that Scotland never qualified at the time, I'm now glad we're not going. To see my country's national team used to give legitimacy to a murderous state and it's multi billion dollar pr exercise of a tournament would've been too much. I for one, won't watch a minute of this crap and they can wedge the whole thing somewhere very uncomfortable and undoubtedly illegal in Qatar.
Thank you for brilliantly describing and presenting what I have been saying about Neville of late. Running his mouth about football club ownership, being a rich owner compared to the owners of his competition. Giving statements on other nationals as though anyone with multi-millions / billions to purchase high amount of ownership of a top-flight club, hasn't gotten that money without doing a lot of immoral behaviours, Middle Eastern, Russian, British, American or otherwise. He's been bugging me for a while now. Boy needs to educate himself and see his morals over the money.
I love your work alfie mate and I'd hate to see you leave the channel but honestly I have a feeling your going somewhere big time in the next couple year maybe even months starting with this video smashed it bro
Excellent video and your comments are spot on. You are extremly eloquent and would make a great Political analyst or commentator. Plus, you would also make a great English Foreign language teacher overseas. I was such a teacher in Thailand, Indonesia and China. Just some ideas for you to consider. You could of course still produce HITC Sevens.
I did it the other way around. I was an English language teacher overseas (in Indonesia for a couple of years too) then started a football channel a few years back.
Most likely qatar will ignore the house rules. They dont want their laws to be scrutinized by media from the many times their law will be broken during the world Cup.
He's a champagne socialist. He has a massive ego and believes he knows better. All he really cares about is the kudos moral points humping labour gives him.
Nobody is being forced to go. Not the fans, not the migrant workers, not the pundits or players. How can this be compared to slavery where people went over to Africa and kidnapped people and worked them to death? These people travelled to Qatar voluntarily knowing the dangers of working in such difficult conditions.
Most of the comments on here are about stupid future video ideas, but what about this content? I thought it was a well articulated video. I had similar thoughts, but this was presented better than I could've and I'm glad I watched it.
Qatar: a country that doesn't care about human rights, enslaves migrants, supports terrorist organizations, has face-melting weather, and bans alcohol and public celebrations. FIFA: It's the ideal candidate for the World Cup.
How will It be 'safer' to watch it at home or in the pub. Yeah I know qatar doesn't allow lgbtq people in their country and they dont want alcohol but its not like they will beat you up or kill you. You would just get sent to prison that aint as bad as getting killed. Western propaganda makes everything seem much more worse. I dont know I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here.
The fact that nobody talks about the lives lost that took ti build those stadiums is beyond me and yet no country has boycotted this at all it’s a joke
Neville is the archetype of an intellectual left winger. He "preaches water and drinks wine" (a german phrase). He is certainly very competent when it comes to sport, but it's always a bit strange when a multi millionaire styles him self as "voice of the working classes".
The left has been gradually abdicating its main job of going after the rich people’s money for years now. The modern left is much more comfortable talking about identity politics than it is talking about the working class. The Brexit vote just aggravated this trend.
Great video, Alfie. Will NOT watch the overlap video. Would definitely be nauseating and my eyes might roll that far back inside my head they won't ever come back.
One section of this video tells you everything you need to know about how workers were treated in the building of the stadiums and the treatment of workers , and that is that one stadium cost $1 Billion to build , when you consider that Tottenham's stadium weekly wage bill was £3.5M . So how much of that $1B went on workers wages ? not much i bet
Listen to Neville on the Guardian Football Weekly podcast at the end of September. Complete knob - totally refused to criticise David Beckham for taking the Qatar dollar.
Important conversation to have, but sadly, there isn't much we can do to change anything in Qatar or FIFA. The only thing I can think of that might actually have an effect, would be if ticket sales or viewers took a heavy fall compared to previous tournaments. I'm not encouraging any illegal activities here, but I just want to inform people that pirated streams do not profit neither Qatar nor Fifa as much as the official broadcasters do
There actually is. Don't go there. If you must watch, at least don't do it in person on location. Oh also, you could boycott all and any FIFA sponsors / WC2022 sponsors. If you were really engaged, you could write to all the companies a letter, that you stopped purchasing their products, because of their affiliation with FIFA and the WC in Qatar. Would probably take you a few minutes, and for 99.9% of people that's already too much, but if tens of thousands of these kinds of messages would arrive at Coca Cola, Hyundai, Visa and Budweiser, even global corporations would take notice.
This should get million views before the World Cup final. This World Cup is a disgrace can’t imagine anyone watching this tournament without disgust, which is why I won’t support it even though me not watching it is insignificant, at least I know I was not part of this atrocity
What I can't understand is the people who awarded Qatar the right to hold the world cup were sacked by FIFA and charged with corruption, but this winter World cup is still going ahead!!!? I don't think I can watch or enjoy this world cup for many many reasons
The gulf as a whole is full of brutal dictators which are just the darlings of the west. No wonder they could own PSG, Man City, Newcastle & much more to come. Abramovich owning Chelsea suddenly became intolerable
Very Much appreciate your coverage of the World Cup! I honestly wish FIFA would be taken apart like any monopoly. FIFA is supposed to be a “non profit” organization. I would Love to see football specific investigative journalists who can open up conversations so nothing like this happens again. For as many t-shirts printed and articles that have been and will be written about this World Cup, it would have been incredible to see any team/country abstaining or be conscious objectors for the event.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
@@ac-kk9er it was a good video today A C. As a Liverpool supporter i don’t understand the expert pundit Phil (Gary) Neville. pep guardiola once called him Phil Neville and it was funny. He makes jokes about my team LFC But doesn’t want anything about his team old Trafford fc Good luck to the other team he owns Salford city in getting out of League two The World Cup is coming up, many women who attend will want to be safe and feel safe. The fans of the nations will hope they can compete and try to win matches. We could get a Portugal and Argentina final i think if each team win every match up to the final.
The Wimbledon fans who refused to travel outside London to support their club but decided to start their club again from scratch are amazing, now in the football league, they weren't owned by millionaires and a billionaire like Salford, they did it the hard way........ Every football fan should salute AFC Wimbledon!!!!! 😁
Fantastic analysis. Your political videos are always thought provoking. Your previous one on the World Cup is one of the best demolitions of this farce that I have seen. I am 56 years of age and hardly a radical but money always triumphs. Keep up the excellent standard of journalism.
Bloody great video pointing out all the issues with the World Cup and Qatar itself. Thanks for making it and possibly informing many, many people about ongoing propaganda
Engagement, you could argue, is a noble and important goal, but the question is what constitutes effective engagement? As we saw with Russia, “engagement” didn’t prevent Russia from being willing and in a position to wage war in Ukraine. So I’m sceptical that this kind of engagement with Qatar would do anything different
I came back to this video hours later after reading about Shipman, Moore, West, disarticulation and the likes. This is why I love your videos, Alfie. They're so learned. 👍👏
I think you'll find his actual catchphrase is 'at this moment in time'' ! Says it at least 2,3 or 4 times in EVERY video! You will not unhear this from now on, join my club!
Just do this: For every game you watch, you also write one scathing letter to corporate sponsors, and how you disapprove. If they receive enough letters, even global corporations will think twice supporting such an event ever again. After all, Coca Cola, Visa and Hyundai don't want to pay millions to have their reputation trashed, and customers threaten to stop purchasing their products..
Yes let's just stage it in the United States, where the death penalty exists and their foreign policy destroys nations all around the world through brutal military campaigns or sanctions. Or how about any of the NATO countries that bombed Libya to a slave state? The hypocrisy you guys display with which countries you treat like pariahs as the nations you live in join in on some of the most heinous war crimes in modern times😂
It's got nothing to do with culture. The Middle East is not inherently and culturally authoritarian, homophobic and sexist. It's a political situation, that grew out of a post-colonial history. Not all too many centuries ago, the Islamic regions of the world were much more tolerant and open than Europe at that time. To proclaim this as "culture" is just a way to deceive western audiences, who will be much more willing to overlook such things, if it's in the name of respecting other cultures, rather than what it really is, condoning and passively supporting terrible politicians and the terrible system they built.
Dear Alfie it is becoming increasingly apparent that your talents are wasted in 'top 7' videos, HITC should promote you or at least change the name of the channel
And I thought that the most embarrassing thing about Manchester United legend did during WC season was Peter Schmeichel in 2018 made that series about the World Cup in Russia for Russian state TV, until Gary came with this
Tbh I don't really care about the workers abuse and human rights i just want to watch the football but atleast be honest about it nevilles gonna spin this in some way🥴
@@kevinb9830 "first and foremost" being the key word. Of course i care about my family and close friends first and foremost too. However that does not mean i can just support evil regimes like Qatar, or turn a blind eye to terrible human rights abuses.
Those David Beckham Qatar stopover advertisement videos are an absolute menace. They follow me across all platforms. Probably because the adware that tracks the sites that I visit knows that I’m interested in football and would therefore target such ads at me because I’m supposedly sure to love davy becks, because how could anyone not? Well nuts to that. Beck’s had a successful career as a professional footballer but he was a long way off being a favorite of mine during his playing days. I was thrilled when Barca signed Ronaldinho instead of him. And R10 and his successor Messi have been favorites of mine (i didn’t start following football until 2002). And with what I’ve been consistently hearing about Qatar’s appalling human rights record there was no way I’d be taken in by those ads. I knew Qatar would have paid many millions but that figure of 150 million is genuinely shocking. Any respect i may have had for Beckham and Neville from the trophies they won as players went right out the window the moment they agreed to be bought and used as mouth pieces to sing the praises of a truly despotic regime. And as far as successful sports washing enterprises go even the UAE has been arguably more successful with CFG since they appointed Pep Guardiola and established a much better football structure that’s less about signing megastars and more about playing phenomenal football and signing the players that best suit the managers plan. As critical as I’m willing to be about the UAE and it’s own skeletons in the closet i can’t help but be impressed at the progress made in their flagship team in Manchester. PSG on the other hand have been a mess. Many megastars signed over the last decade and all they have to show for it is a disjointed team that dominates ligue une and a champions league final appearance. Now that Luis Campos is involved that will probably change from this season onwards but CFG have a big head start in the credibility stakes. Which in my estimation makes for a more successful sports washing endeavor. Qatar can take their World Cup hosting rights and insert them into an orifice of their where the sun doesn’t shine, given that they won them by blitzing the field during the bidding process by out bribing all competitors by, what was more than likely, an astonishing degree.
I've realized that there once the money is right human will turn into monsters and the people in the position and with the platform to speak out, will turn a blind eye to all the evil. I'm a simple jamaican who love football but I am not planning on watching a single game of the world cup this year! It's the least I can do as a means of demonstration ✊️✊️💪💪
@Jake Football if that's your justification that's on you. Everyone doing something does not make the thing right. I'm not like you, can't support something knowing it's wrong.
@Jake Football Half the world is not even close. More like a fraction of a percent. And if i come across any other projects that do that, i will not support those projects either. Unfortunately, the sport i love is going to be played in these buildings built on the death of thousands, which should really pose a quandary for all decent humans, and not be brushed a away with a lazy "the worlds is unfair and terrible things happen everywhere" excuse. If we would actually subscribe to your logic, where as we cannot condemn evil doings, if other evil is happening elsewhere (i am paraphrasing a little here), then humankind would be resigned to moral decay, zero empathy for our kin and permanent ignorance.
A really well-made, important video as always! Will be sharing. Just a small nitpicky comment - a couple of times you accidentally used the Bahrain flag rather than the Qatar one.
My bro you need to be the guy that sky hire to talk on these difficult moral issues, but then again I’m sure you’d put plenty of people out of work. Amazing video as always
When the same amount has died(although estimated) in Ukraine to the amount died in Qatar stadiums makes you think there been lots of wars with less deaths than Qatar stadiums being built
Brilliant video, objectively written. IF Gary the red showed a pence of critique that this video has we'd have ourselves some real insight into the farcical regime that is the qatari royal family.
I’ve watched the whole thing, it’s not propaganda, he’s very much walking on egg shells the doc, and it’s clear the Qatari ambassadors are lying through their teeth especially about the workers death. Maybe it’s a bit hypocritical of to work for Bein Sports, but I he doesn’t deserve any grief.
@@harleygrice5151 oh right so the doc is not propaganda... It just facilitates Qatari officials to spread propaganda.. without challenging them.. yea makes perfect fucking sense 🤦♂️of fucking course he coulda done something, fucking hell he coulda done what this video done, he coulda condemned it 🤷♂️ but no, he's literally on Qatari payroll 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@dadabler8714 yes pal but if he just slated it 100% then the video wouldn’t even have been put out at all 🤷♂️ what’s he gonna do hold qatari state at gunpoint till they change something it’s not really propaganda it’s Qataris point of view which is lies they’re not going to confess to the world hello we kill migrant workers who work for peanuts and slaughters gays are they
@@dadabler8714 I said spot in to the first comment which does say Neville is a hypocrite for working for bein sports which I never condoned in my comment at any point
I love the overall sarcasm which drips from basically any sentence uttered in this video.
Good except your comment abo
Proper Tory sounding isn't he
@@tigercap100 wait what?
The Qatari trying to justify the 6,500 deaths is the most ridiculous thing in Gary Neville's "documentary". Whether the workers died on site or in the bunker with a heart attack, 6,500 dead people is still a mind-boggling amount. There's no spin you can put in it to make it sound better.
I don't get it though, where does his moral code come from? I mean if he's atheist then he can't really say anything is objectively immoral.
Gary Neville is out there, making bold political statements about society at large and football governance, rubbing shoulders with no less than Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the Labour Party, of which he is now a member, then he jumps into BeIn Sports as a pundit, with no regard to his personal integrity.
He talks of wages of the average worker and of strikes for those who work in keeping our fragile national infrastructure together.
He's the exact same as the people he holds to account. If he had a shred of morality as he purports to have, he'd quietly leave this role.
He won't.
The dude's sick simple as that
Lmaoooooo hes a god what do you mean
@@ericisreal776 Relax Gary Neville's alt account.
Should take a trip over to the leb, palestine, Syria, afgan,Iraq, afgan,somalia, libya and endless murders his country is involved in the hypricit
So at what yearly income do you have to change your moral and political beliefs? This is just the same stupid “well if you don’t agree with everything in society then you should just not take part in it” argument, it doesn’t make sense
Neville is hardly a radical, but in his video I was impressed with the way he challenged the private companies that are exploiting the Qatari workers just the same way as the state is doing, that is raising a good point. That it’s just as much a problem with the Qatari government as it is with the corporations that exploit cheap labor everywhere around the world
Currently this is a very difficult place to be ethical in
By far the best football channel on TH-cam. Brilliant work Alfie.
Not just football my friend... politically sound as well.
Sad to see that most of his best work does not get the attention it deserves.
Agreed x
Beckham sounds like an ideal candidate for upper echelons of FIFA
Stood in the line for the queen though man of the people ey?
@@AdamCanavan12 Beckham is now walking on his hand knees begging for his knighthood. Complete embarrassment.
He'd let you bum his kids, out of wedlock, in public, in Qatar whilst shouting blasphemous obscenities if the money was right.
@@AdamCanavan12 he does whatever his handlers tell him to! He does at least *play* the fool. He married the only Spice Girl who couldn't sing
Can't think of a more scathing insult.
Fantastic video. Neville deserves criticism on a wide range of topics - he seems to be untouchable in mainstream circles
Apparently he is not allowed to be criticised at sky full stop.
But sky are now owned by msnbc in America and they are further left than fidel castro
Neville is the perfect poster boy for mainstream media circles, occasionally does something that barely counts as a good deed if you are a normal person (criticising super league, campaigning for Labour), but he never actually challenges the status quo and instead actively reinforces it.
@@tommair5783 word
@@tommair5783 this makes his opposition to the tories even more bizarre, doesn’t agree with right leaning government policies but is fine to work for ultra conservatives in a tournament that was built on the blood of slaves.
Absolute sham.
@@tommair5783 he's the main person trying to help the lower league's get more money from the premier League as he part owns a league two he knows how much abit extra could do to them clubs at league one and below
Irony is that when The SuperLeague was announced in the spring of 2021 Neville was most hawkish and critical of it and calling the clubs greedy but he just sold himself out to Qatar a coutry where human rights are broken officially.
He was angry that nobody paid him in advance to market the idea
@@knossostellel-amarna8502 you may have a good point there
It must have been staggering the amount of envelopes full of money to make this happen.
Replace envelopes with shipping containers filled with cash, and you be "right on the money" nudge nudge wink wink.
Tbh i think the reality is way sadder. It probably doesnt take much to buy people like this lmfao or at least not as much as we think
Great video. The level of sarcasm and disdain is truly warranted for someone that's put his morals aside for Qatari blood money. Very much like his mate Beckham. I have been previously a supporter of Neville but this is hypocrisy of the highest level. Thank you for highlighting
Neville calling the glazers to leave while rubbing shoulders with the qatari regime is quite something
Same with Newcastle and their Saudi blood money. Man City, PSG, etc of course.
@@knossostellel-amarna8502 Yeah! 😀
As examples of creative writing, the Qatari stooges in Neville’s video were absolutely world class. I also enjoyed the segment where men following a woman round a supermarket were worryingly just described as ‘curious’.
There's "the truth" 😡 and "the truth" 😀
as a woman, if i was followed around a supermarket for my own safety, I'd actually feel less safe.
Good on Gary for... not addressing the issue because they're lining his pockets
@@ILikedGooglePlus Lionel hutz?
@@marcusali1783
Freedom for women
No harassment
Oh, they got this all screwed up
Freedom for women?
No, harassment!
Neville, a man of true principles that he's willing to forget if the price is right.
If Beckham ever gets knighted I’ll officially lose the remaining slither of hope that I have in humanity.
Oh, he'll get it. While Neville is a hypocrite of the highest order, I consider David 'I'm Skint' Beckham's Qatar publicity job much much worse. In the end, it all comes to down to tons and tons of cash, which is essentially how Qatar got it in the first place.
@@gentleken7864 And how they keep getting major sporting events of all kinds, which have zero atmosphere and feel plastic.
Dude, it’s only a matter of time!
Get ready for a wave of whataboutism. If you have any concerns about Qatar, idiots will just say "you're going to watch it aren't you" and then call you a hypocrite for caring about humans and football at the same time. This is among the sad lessons I've learnt as a Newcastle fan
Watching the World Cup certainly is up for debate and is the only thing that will make a real difference as it impacts fifas pockets directly.
It’s tough and I probably will watch it because I love football especially World Cup football where you see players from Central America Asia and Africa that you’ve never seen before and could get huge moves from it and everything else that comes with it.
However being a Newcastle fan is completely different, you were there and are more important than the owners are or ever will be, would be ridiculous for people to expect Newcastle fans to stop supporting them.
Same way people deflect criticism with Newcastle being bought by the Saudi government. *Edit: Oh wait you already mentioned it
Wait Saudi owned Newcastle
Any team which sells their soul for dirty money will lose something. I mean look at City - they're a great team but they're souless. It's just plastic. I've zero doubt Newcastle will win the league within 10 seasons at most, because at the end of the day they will just keep throwing money at it until it happens. Just as City did.
Sticking to one's principles is often difficult but nonetheless the right thing to do. Having made this video he would indeed be a hypocrite for watching it.
One point you mentioned which I believe strongly in: you can respect another persons culture whilst simultaneously questioning some aspects of it. It’s very important that we do respect other peoples culture, but you can do that whilst also saying “this isn’t right.” Not shouting, not painting people as evil, but just to talk people through why they believe that and why you disagree. Conversation not argument. Constructive not destructive
For most of history, islamic regions of the world have been more tolerant than Europe. It is not inherent to the Middle East, to be like this, and in an alternative universe, history looks very different. Authoritarianism, homophobia and sexism is not culture, and to frame it like that is deceitful.
@@Jonathanizer arabs have been like this since the islamic golden age ended. Other muslim nations are much more secular and toleramt.
@@Jonathanizer nah based muslims😊
@@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq The muslims i know, who grew up in the west, are no different in their morals and world view. It's only people who grew up in the authoritarian post-colonial states who are formed to hold terrible political views.
And people act like culture is something that is set in stone that can never be changed or challenged. It changes and evolves with time.
Thank you for making videos like this. Can’t believe I am happy that my country didn’t qualify to the WC, but I am. ❤ from Norway
I think most of us norwegians with somewhat of a brain agrees with that.
Like Norway, Scotland have been waiting to qualify for the World Cup since 1998. As close as we came, this is the only tournament I’ve not been bothered about not qualifying for during that time whole time.
@@toph8298 Indeed. I'm welsh, and the whole country is delighted we qualified. but at the same time devastated because frankly nobody wants to go. I'm a lesbian so that rules me out even if I wanted to go, and even my dad doesn't want to go despite it being a dream for decades
@@harleyt-l8977 lol, don't generalize, there are a lot of people who want to go, Qatar just rejected you cos you are lesbian and in their religion it's unacceptable so yh
@@franalytics5995 a lot isn't the same as a majority. One thousand is a lot. What numbers are we talking here or are you just generalizing as well
I’ve got to admit that, after watching the full video, more than anything, the funniest part, and one I agreed with the most, was the view of James Cordon being unwatchably deplorable 😂
@@joseparcenary4706 😆👍🏻
Indeed
James Cordon ruins everything.
The selection process was in no way corrupt, Qatar are a very accepting and tolerant society, those migrant workers dreamed of dying building a stadium for less than a living wage in a desert. Glad we could clear all that up, well done fifa for the big brain pick. Big respect for all the players willing to overlook these quirks to kick a ball around 👏
Sure Jan 🙄
@@silvanafernandes8875 um, that was sarcasm
Exactlyyy.
We gotta stop this woke agenda. No politics in football please😤
@Funhistani you think the British people agree with our beyond evil crooked government?
@Funhistani the country is allied ofc, the people have absolutely no issue lambasting and bashing the country tho as long as their leaders still rub shoulders together
This. Everything in this, is why this is the greatest football channel on TH-cam. Wonderful work again Alfie
Gary could really learn a thing or two from you about making engaging, well written and probing content Alfie.
Really good job as always.
Well written ignorance and intolerance of other cultures and policies yes gary could learn a lot from this smarmy one sided hypocrite
No one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville - Jamie Carragher
Nothing like hearing ex footballers telling us they are all for the working man, while putting out their hands to corrupt nations for the money.
Excellent video as always, and I do sincerely hope Neville sees it.
So Qatar is a corrupt nation but the Usa, UK and other Western countries aren't? holy shit, the indoctrination runs deep.
The closer we get to the World Cup the more likely I think Alfie will spontaneously combust.
I wouldn't blame him.
Thank you Alfie again for an excellent video with really great points made.
It’s so nuanced to look at human rights in the Middle East and you’ve done an excellent job in under half an hour by stating that Muslims are not homogeneous and do try risk their lives by bringing up human rights abuses consistently over the years.
Plus again highlighting the stupidness of FIFA, Neville, and other apologists of obviously toeing the official Qatari line. It’s disgusting that there are still construction workers who are considered indentured servants despite the lip service paid to Human Rights and Workers Rights by the regime.
The pure idiocy, or more likely sheer greed of FIFA in initially awarding the World Cup to this country and then Infantino compounds it by implying that football is so amazing it saves the world. Flipping heck I wonder what happened to the last host of the World Cup?
Although I was disappointed just from a footballing perspective that Scotland never qualified at the time, I'm now glad we're not going. To see my country's national team used to give legitimacy to a murderous state and it's multi billion dollar pr exercise of a tournament would've been too much. I for one, won't watch a minute of this crap and they can wedge the whole thing somewhere very uncomfortable and undoubtedly illegal in Qatar.
Thank you for brilliantly describing and presenting what I have been saying about Neville of late. Running his mouth about football club ownership, being a rich owner compared to the owners of his competition. Giving statements on other nationals as though anyone with multi-millions / billions to purchase high amount of ownership of a top-flight club, hasn't gotten that money without doing a lot of immoral behaviours, Middle Eastern, Russian, British, American or otherwise. He's been bugging me for a while now. Boy needs to educate himself and see his morals over the money.
The best TH-cam channel on football matters. Period.
Alfie’s videos on Qatar are golden
The fact that the stadiums get demolished after WC is disgusting
yep and guess who is going to do the demolition.... more slave labour! (and more deaths)
That’s like a slap in the face to the hundreds of workers that lost their lives during the construction
@@bababababababa6124 *thousands
Aren't some being repurposed? Either way, they would never have any use for them in their current form anyway.
That’s simply not true though is it
I love your work alfie mate and I'd hate to see you leave the channel but honestly I have a feeling your going somewhere big time in the next couple year maybe even months starting with this video smashed it bro
Outstanding piece of commentary, this.
Excellent video and your comments are spot on. You are extremly eloquent and would make a great Political analyst or commentator. Plus, you would also make a great English Foreign language teacher overseas. I was such a teacher in Thailand, Indonesia and China. Just some ideas for you to consider. You could of course still produce HITC Sevens.
I did it the other way around. I was an English language teacher overseas (in Indonesia for a couple of years too) then started a football channel a few years back.
Thank you for this video, I watched the whole qatar documentary with my jaw on the floor
Most likely qatar will ignore the house rules. They dont want their laws to be scrutinized by media from the many times their law will be broken during the world Cup.
There is no discussion here, Neville views this as a paying gig, nothing else, morals are only useful when they make him look good publicly.
He's a champagne socialist. He has a massive ego and believes he knows better. All he really cares about is the kudos moral points humping labour gives him.
Nobody is being forced to go. Not the fans, not the migrant workers, not the pundits or players. How can this be compared to slavery where people went over to Africa and kidnapped people and worked them to death? These people travelled to Qatar voluntarily knowing the dangers of working in such difficult conditions.
If you had any brain, you would know that the correct term is "modern slavery". Although, two words combined might be too difficult for you.
Most of the comments on here are about stupid future video ideas, but what about this content? I thought it was a well articulated video. I had similar thoughts, but this was presented better than I could've and I'm glad I watched it.
I will always hold you in the highest regard for never selling out... yet
Thank you for the video. that was long overdue and find no attention ifrom the mainstream media.
A spectacular video Alfie! 30 mins of taking the piss outta Gary Neville, I think we are all in favor of that! 🤣
Qatar: a country that doesn't care about human rights, enslaves migrants, supports terrorist organizations, has face-melting weather, and bans alcohol and public celebrations.
FIFA: It's the ideal candidate for the World Cup.
Don't forget about Qatars anti-democratic politics, the homophobia and the treatment of rape victims.
Banning alcohol is perfectly fine
I think it will be safer to watch the World Cup at home or in the pub.
How will It be 'safer' to watch it at home or in the pub. Yeah I know qatar doesn't allow lgbtq people in their country and they dont want alcohol but its not like they will beat you up or kill you. You would just get sent to prison that aint as bad as getting killed. Western propaganda makes everything seem much more worse. I dont know I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here.
The fact that nobody talks about the lives lost that took ti build those stadiums is beyond me and yet no country has boycotted this at all it’s a joke
James is right, it the best football channel there is. U cut through the crap and get to the point. Respect!
Neville is the archetype of an intellectual left winger. He "preaches water and drinks wine" (a german phrase). He is certainly very competent when it comes to sport, but it's always a bit strange when a multi millionaire styles him self as "voice of the working classes".
If your definition of left wing includes those willing to propagate capitalism, there's really no difference between right and left, effectively
@MuseTheReaper It doesn't invalidate his view. However, if he changes his mind when he profits from it , he doesn't make himself awfully believable.
@@willywonka7812 that's sort of what I mean.
The left has been gradually abdicating its main job of going after the rich people’s money for years now. The modern left is much more comfortable talking about identity politics than it is talking about the working class. The Brexit vote just aggravated this trend.
“ Red Nev “ 😁 I must be getting dementia because I was thinking that Gary Neville is the England Manager until you described him as a tv pundit . 🏴❤️
Great video, Alfie.
Will NOT watch the overlap video. Would definitely be nauseating and my eyes might roll that far back inside my head they won't ever come back.
One section of this video tells you everything you need to know about how workers were treated in the building of the stadiums and the treatment of workers , and that is that one stadium cost $1 Billion to build , when you consider that Tottenham's stadium weekly wage bill was £3.5M . So how much of that $1B went on workers wages ? not much i bet
Listen to Neville on the Guardian Football Weekly podcast at the end of September. Complete knob - totally refused to criticise David Beckham for taking the Qatar dollar.
@Tom Tomassony
Of course he wouldn't, he's on the payroll, the guy is a massive hypocrite who puts money before his principles.
Day 331: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.
Keep dreaming bocah
Stellar work right here, thank you for your critical and transparent research
Eric Cantona got it right. He’s going to boycott 2022. True legend.
Great journalism, well done!
‘The Million Dollar Man’ Ted DiBiase (WWF/E) famously said ….
“Everybody has a Price”!!!…. 🤷🏿♂️. ⚽️
If you need an example of Neville’s integrity just look at his speaking of Ole when he was utd manager
"I'd rather jab scissors into my eyes than watch James Corden" 🤣🤣🤣
I love your sarcasm 😂 great video coverage, as always!
Important conversation to have, but sadly, there isn't much we can do to change anything in Qatar or FIFA. The only thing I can think of that might actually have an effect, would be if ticket sales or viewers took a heavy fall compared to previous tournaments. I'm not encouraging any illegal activities here, but I just want to inform people that pirated streams do not profit neither Qatar nor Fifa as much as the official broadcasters do
There actually is. Don't go there. If you must watch, at least don't do it in person on location.
Oh also, you could boycott all and any FIFA sponsors / WC2022 sponsors. If you were really engaged, you could write to all the companies a letter, that you stopped purchasing their products, because of their affiliation with FIFA and the WC in Qatar. Would probably take you a few minutes, and for 99.9% of people that's already too much, but if tens of thousands of these kinds of messages would arrive at Coca Cola, Hyundai, Visa and Budweiser, even global corporations would take notice.
Brilliant video mate, well done. Stay honest
I'm starting to feel a little depressed thinking about this World Cup
Denmark's position is the best I've seen
This should get million views before the World Cup final. This World Cup is a disgrace can’t imagine anyone watching this tournament without disgust, which is why I won’t support it even though me not watching it is insignificant, at least I know I was not part of this atrocity
Alfie's videos have been hitting different lately 👌👌
What I can't understand is the people who awarded Qatar the right to hold the world cup were sacked by FIFA and charged with corruption,
but this winter World cup is still going ahead!!!?
I don't think I can watch or enjoy this world cup for many many reasons
Well done mate, went in with no holding back. Fantastic job 💪🏼👏🏼
Another amazing video Alfie. Keep up the great work. Your posts are appointment viewing.
I could watch Alfie smashing the Qatar world cup all day. Routinely makes for his best content.
Best Football channel on TH-cam
I think this is the best video you’ve ever made and needs to be seen by a lot more people, well done.
The gulf as a whole is full of brutal dictators which are just the darlings of the west. No wonder they could own PSG, Man City, Newcastle & much more to come. Abramovich owning Chelsea suddenly became intolerable
You need to be a freelance journalist. This is amazing.
What next? Gary in Pyongyang 'it's alright really'
Very Much appreciate your coverage of the World Cup! I honestly wish FIFA would be taken apart like any monopoly. FIFA is supposed to be a “non profit” organization. I would Love to see football specific investigative journalists who can open up conversations so nothing like this happens again. For as many t-shirts printed and articles that have been and will be written about this World Cup, it would have been incredible to see any team/country abstaining or be conscious objectors for the event.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Want this to be done as well!
This is how football should be. Not some grubby money loving, slavery appologist, corrupt FIFA run scum that it is.
@@ac-kk9er it was a good video today A C.
As a Liverpool supporter i don’t understand the expert pundit Phil (Gary) Neville.
pep guardiola once called him Phil Neville and it was funny.
He makes jokes about my team LFC But doesn’t want anything about his team old Trafford fc
Good luck to the other team he owns Salford city in getting out of League two
The World Cup is coming up, many women who attend will want to be safe and feel safe.
The fans of the nations will hope they can compete and try to win matches.
We could get a Portugal and Argentina final i think if each team win every match up to the final.
The Wimbledon fans who refused to travel outside London to support their club but decided to start their club again from scratch are amazing, now in the football league, they weren't owned by millionaires and a billionaire like Salford, they did it the hard way........ Every football fan should salute AFC Wimbledon!!!!! 😁
@@englanduk6131 true England
Fantastic analysis. Your political videos are always thought provoking. Your previous one on the World Cup is one of the best demolitions of this farce that I have seen. I am 56 years of age and hardly a radical but money always triumphs. Keep up the excellent standard of journalism.
When other countries do it, it's called propaganda but when a NATO member does it, it's called promo.
Shhhhh that's called "whataboutism" bro
@@interovic Nah thats a fact
@@sazidulhuq3898 im teasing
@@interovic 👍👍
I'll be making a World Cup podcast and I want to do the situation in Qatar justice so these videos are invaluable to me.
Bloody great video pointing out all the issues with the World Cup and Qatar itself. Thanks for making it and possibly informing many, many people about ongoing propaganda
Engagement, you could argue, is a noble and important goal, but the question is what constitutes effective engagement? As we saw with Russia, “engagement” didn’t prevent Russia from being willing and in a position to wage war in Ukraine. So I’m sceptical that this kind of engagement with Qatar would do anything different
I came back to this video hours later after reading about Shipman, Moore, West, disarticulation and the likes.
This is why I love your videos, Alfie. They're so learned. 👍👏
I think you'll find his actual catchphrase is 'at this moment in time'' ! Says it at least 2,3 or 4 times in EVERY video! You will not unhear this from now on, join my club!
I nearly overdosed on the amount of sarcasm in this!
This world cup is an absolute joke!
Hitting the proverbial nail as sweetly as ever Alfie
legendary video. Quite disgusted by Gary Neville for this.
Good work on calling hypocrisy when we see it, even if it seems to be everywhere these days.
This is why I am conflicted about watching the World Cup this year.
Just do this: For every game you watch, you also write one scathing letter to corporate sponsors, and how you disapprove. If they receive enough letters, even global corporations will think twice supporting such an event ever again. After all, Coca Cola, Visa and Hyundai don't want to pay millions to have their reputation trashed, and customers threaten to stop purchasing their products..
Yes let's just stage it in the United States, where the death penalty exists and their foreign policy destroys nations all around the world through brutal military campaigns or sanctions. Or how about any of the NATO countries that bombed Libya to a slave state? The hypocrisy you guys display with which countries you treat like pariahs as the nations you live in join in on some of the most heinous war crimes in modern times😂
This was one of your best videos Alfie great work
Another brilliant video, loving your content at the moment 👏
Neville isn't as rich as Beckham but he's still a multi-millionaire. How much money does he need? Shame on him. He'll make a great politician.
I have to say: I refuse to fully respect a culture that doesn't respect me
It's got nothing to do with culture. The Middle East is not inherently and culturally authoritarian, homophobic and sexist. It's a political situation, that grew out of a post-colonial history. Not all too many centuries ago, the Islamic regions of the world were much more tolerant and open than Europe at that time. To proclaim this as "culture" is just a way to deceive western audiences, who will be much more willing to overlook such things, if it's in the name of respecting other cultures, rather than what it really is, condoning and passively supporting terrible politicians and the terrible system they built.
Excellent and very important video. My favourite one that you have released so far. Keep up the excellent work!!
Dear Alfie it is becoming increasingly apparent that your talents are wasted in 'top 7' videos, HITC should promote you or at least change the name of the channel
A great video. The way you capped it off with that 'allegedly' had me laughing
And I thought that the most embarrassing thing about Manchester United legend did during WC season was Peter Schmeichel in 2018 made that series about the World Cup in Russia for Russian state TV, until Gary came with this
Tbh I don't really care about the workers abuse and human rights i just want to watch the football but atleast be honest about it nevilles gonna spin this in some way🥴
@@andresmcjr Well at least you're honest. Of course you would care, if it were you who'd be abused, and then you'd hope others care enough to help.
ryan giggs?
@@Jonathanizer I'm not sure how much those who claim to care actually do either. I care about those close to me first and foremost, like everyone.
@@kevinb9830 "first and foremost" being the key word. Of course i care about my family and close friends first and foremost too. However that does not mean i can just support evil regimes like Qatar, or turn a blind eye to terrible human rights abuses.
Those David Beckham Qatar stopover advertisement videos are an absolute menace. They follow me across all platforms. Probably because the adware that tracks the sites that I visit knows that I’m interested in football and would therefore target such ads at me because I’m supposedly sure to love davy becks, because how could anyone not? Well nuts to that. Beck’s had a successful career as a professional footballer but he was a long way off being a favorite of mine during his playing days. I was thrilled when Barca signed Ronaldinho instead of him. And R10 and his successor Messi have been favorites of mine (i didn’t start following football until 2002).
And with what I’ve been consistently hearing about Qatar’s appalling human rights record there was no way I’d be taken in by those ads. I knew Qatar would have paid many millions but that figure of 150 million is genuinely shocking. Any respect i may have had for Beckham and Neville from the trophies they won as players went right out the window the moment they agreed to be bought and used as mouth pieces to sing the praises of a truly despotic regime. And as far as successful sports washing enterprises go even the UAE has been arguably more successful with CFG since they appointed Pep Guardiola and established a much better football structure that’s less about signing megastars and more about playing phenomenal football and signing the players that best suit the managers plan. As critical as I’m willing to be about the UAE and it’s own skeletons in the closet i can’t help but be impressed at the progress made in their flagship team in Manchester. PSG on the other hand have been a mess. Many megastars signed over the last decade and all they have to show for it is a disjointed team that dominates ligue une and a champions league final appearance. Now that Luis Campos is involved that will probably change from this season onwards but CFG have a big head start in the credibility stakes. Which in my estimation makes for a more successful sports washing endeavor. Qatar can take their World Cup hosting rights and insert them into an orifice of their where the sun doesn’t shine, given that they won them by blitzing the field during the bidding process by out bribing all competitors by, what was more than likely, an astonishing degree.
I've realized that there once the money is right human will turn into monsters and the people in the position and with the platform to speak out, will turn a blind eye to all the evil.
I'm a simple jamaican who love football but I am not planning on watching a single game of the world cup this year! It's the least I can do as a means of demonstration ✊️✊️💪💪
Not all. Probably not even most. But the money guys will always find someone. Someone will always be greedy.
@Jake Football if that's your justification that's on you. Everyone doing something does not make the thing right. I'm not like you, can't support something knowing it's wrong.
@Jake Football Half the world is not even close. More like a fraction of a percent. And if i come across any other projects that do that, i will not support those projects either. Unfortunately, the sport i love is going to be played in these buildings built on the death of thousands, which should really pose a quandary for all decent humans, and not be brushed a away with a lazy "the worlds is unfair and terrible things happen everywhere" excuse.
If we would actually subscribe to your logic, where as we cannot condemn evil doings, if other evil is happening elsewhere (i am paraphrasing a little here), then humankind would be resigned to moral decay, zero empathy for our kin and permanent ignorance.
A really well-made, important video as always! Will be sharing.
Just a small nitpicky comment - a couple of times you accidentally used the Bahrain flag rather than the Qatar one.
I’m actually shocked and appalled that time Cahill has a part of this.
Fucking sux
My bro you need to be the guy that sky hire to talk on these difficult moral issues, but then again I’m sure you’d put plenty of people out of work.
Amazing video as always
Sky has no reason to have on someone who will put their feet to the fire
Love that you cover everything football and not just the scores and 10 greatest…
When the same amount has died(although estimated) in Ukraine to the amount died in Qatar stadiums makes you think there been lots of wars with less deaths than Qatar stadiums being built
that's an interesting statistc, where did u found these numbers
Only 3 people died in Ukraine?
@@joshrealer do u really expect to find official number from the qatari government or police? obviously the dark number is a lot higher
Puts the 200k deaths during the iraq invasion in another light.
Brilliant video, objectively written. IF Gary the red showed a pence of critique that this video has we'd have ourselves some real insight into the farcical regime that is the qatari royal family.
I’ve watched the whole thing, it’s not propaganda, he’s very much walking on egg shells the doc, and it’s clear the Qatari ambassadors are lying through their teeth especially about the workers death. Maybe it’s a bit hypocritical of to work for Bein Sports, but I he doesn’t deserve any grief.
Spot on mate Neville knows really and there’s nothing he can do even if he brings it up
The first half of the video felt a bit like propaganda, but tbf he did talk about some of the problems later in the video
@@harleygrice5151 oh right so the doc is not propaganda... It just facilitates Qatari officials to spread propaganda.. without challenging them.. yea makes perfect fucking sense 🤦♂️of fucking course he coulda done something, fucking hell he coulda done what this video done, he coulda condemned it 🤷♂️ but no, he's literally on Qatari payroll 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@dadabler8714 yes pal but if he just slated it 100% then the video wouldn’t even have been put out at all 🤷♂️ what’s he gonna do hold qatari state at gunpoint till they change something it’s not really propaganda it’s Qataris point of view which is lies they’re not going to confess to the world hello we kill migrant workers who work for peanuts and slaughters gays are they
@@dadabler8714 I said spot in to the first comment which does say Neville is a hypocrite for working for bein sports which I never condoned in my comment at any point
Another banger, Alfie. Well done.