' World Cup & Man City Owners in Shambles '

27th September 2013

Qatar World Cup And Man City Owners In Shambles After Slave Labour Revelations
By Christopher Arnfield -




Qatar World Cup in doubt as revelations about migrant worker deaths are exposed.

Hot on the heels of the farcical suggestions that the World Cup should somehow be magicked away to the winter months after FIFA have suddenly realized that it is too hot in the summer in Qatar, we now hear further revelations about the deaths and slave labour conditions of migrant workers in Qatar working on the World Cup, as well as earlier revelations about similar conditions in Abu Dhabi, ruled by the owners of Manchester City.

Of course, we now know that these revelations are true, so how does this sit with the World Cup organizing committee and the Premier League`s `fit and proper person` rules?


In the case of the 2022 World Cup, this is so mired in controversy now that it is imperative upon FIFA that they rescind the award of the World Cup to Qatar. Should they fail to do so will seriously harm FIFA`s standing and could even invite legal action against them from other associations. The shame of it is that hundreds of migrant Nepalese workers are being forced to work for no pay in dreadful conditions with the result that hundreds are dying every month. This would not have been tolerated 100 years ago, let alone in the 21st Century. How can a civilized world accept this stain on humanity? Well it cannot.

The World Cup must now be moved to another country and the nearest loser in the so-called bidding was Australia, so why don`t they give it to them?


Well the reason is simple. It will mean yet again that Sepp Blatter, man of many faux pas will have to admit that he was wrong to insists that they won the bidding; a bidding process that looks bent from any angle you look at it!
In the case of the Manchester City owners, they were also found to have treated migrant workers like slaves on dreadful conditions and poor or no pay. You may wonder how that can be allowed in the 21st century, but it seems that the West will bend over backwards or any other way to accommodate the Emirs of the UAE even if it means turning a blind eye to human rights abuses that were rightly shunned in South Africa.
How could the owner of Manchester City be deemed a fit and proper person , when his rule over this tiny Emirate makes him responsible for these abuses?

Yet again, the Premier League are blinkered when it comes to applying the rule where rich owners are concerned., with Richard Scudamore showing that petro-dollars mean more that the lives of slaves being worked to death in the Sheik`s backyard.

It looks distinctly hypocritical for the English football authorities to criticize Qatar when they are happy to allow a different Emir to get away with the exact same crimes.

Search "Slaves of Dubai" on YouTube. Will give you an idea of what type of stuff goes on.

So glad all this is coming to light... Dubai and all those other countries exactly the same... Only getting rich through the more or less slave labour of Pakistanis, Nepalis and Philipinos... No way should they have the WC