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Boycott the World Cup?

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rurikbird

rurikbird

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Seeing growing calls for the England national team to boycott the Trump Glorification Cup in the summer among politicians and in the media. I’m sure other European countries affected by his tariffs and bullying will strongly consider this as well - can’t imagine Denmark going if they qualify, for instance, and other Nordic nations would likely support them.

I say everyone should absolutely boycott it. Football is not so important in the grand scheme of things, but this is actually a type of message that would get through to Trump - a threat by most Western European nations to pull of the World Cup would be potentially more effective than withholding economic or military cooperation, which he doesn’t care about anyway. Hit him where it hurts - denying him the chance at self-aggrandizement.
 
rurikbird said:
Seeing growing calls for England to boycott the Trump self-glorification tournament in the summer among UK politicians and in the media. I’m sure other European countries affected by his tariffs and bullying will strongly consider this as well - can’t imagine Denmark going if they qualify, for instance, and other Nordic nations would likely support them.

I say everyone should absolutely boycott it. Football is not so important in the grand scheme of things, but this is actually a type of message that would get through to him - a threat to pull of the World Cup would be potentially more effective than withholding economic or military cooperation.
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I am an American that grew in Brighton as a Liverpool fan. I fully support a boycott of the world cup. I have not decided whether I will watch matches in Canada or Mexico, although Fifa’s corrupt “peace prize” leans me that way.

I am also half Portuguese and very much hoping to go to matched in Portugal and Morroco in 4 years.

But….Do not expect that any boycott will matter to Trump! First, he is insane. I truly believe that. Second, he will accept any aggression thrown his away and just bounce it back.

Morally, though, I think a boycott is a good way to go.
 
I've always wanted to watch a football match in Monterrey

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The US might try annex it mid match though
 
I boycotted the one in Qatar, and I will boycott this one. FIFA are corrupt, and I boycott most internationals. It's a bit crappy for my national players like Bradley, but we are stuck in this eternal corrupt loop forever until the majority grow a set of balls and miss a few football games.
 
A boycott is for the FA to decide. That drags in Prince William as FA Chair.
Furthermore, UEFA requires no political interference in the running of National Associations (this was raised as an issue with the appointment of the football regulator).
People are taking about this like it's do'able but it's a non-starter.
There was no boycott of Qatar despite human rights violations, it won't happen here.
But the second Trump tries to involve himself in the tournament, crowds need to boo the fuck out of him and the players need to tell him to do one if he tries to interfere like he did with the Club Word Cup final. A bit of side-eye from Cole Palmer won't be enough this time.
Hopefully the cunt will be history by then anyway.
 
I don't think a boycott is either likely to happen or will be effective.

Will boost the USA's chances of winning the thing, which would please Trump to no end.

(Selfishly I don't want a boycott because I'm actually attending the tournament!)
 
I have got ticket to some games in Dallas, and prices will come down, so will likely go to more. But doing it for the young fella. Not bothered otherwise, FIFA have ruined it....





Unless Ireland clinch that playoff spot..
 
They need to move even more games to Canada and Mexico. Make the US virtually irrelevant in the overall scheme.
 
There won't be a boycott imho, and it was confirmed yesterday by our President of the football federation. She said that they can't be responsible for any political standpoint, and thats how it should be in all honesty.

If Trump annex Greenland FIFA should 100% move the games out if the US, but we all know Infantino wont do that.
He's as corrupt as they come.
 
I'm going to get around the ban boycott by watching the matches on terrestrial TV that doesn't require me paying for anything and they don't know how many people are watching.
 
I don't remember how many games I watched of the Qatar world cup - I think less than 5, and that was only when the boys were watching.
I just wasn't interested, and I assume it will be the same here too.

If I was in my yoof, I'd definitely use this world cup for 'footy & backpacking' ...
 
Given that there are other countries over the years that have been dodgy in one way or another, I can't see there being a boycott.

Trade tariffs are not a reason. Nothing illegal about trade tariffs.

As far as Greenland is concerned, it's all just words now. If Trump goes to war over it then that's another matter, but chances are he'd probably ban a lot of countries from entering if the US is at war with them, so a boycott wouldn't be necessary.
 
Starting to boycott American products and services is a better option I think.
Not that I will set foot in America anytime soon.
 
tomasjj said:
Starting to boycott American products and services is a better option I think.
Not that I will set foot in America anytime soon.
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That must be one of those things that gets extremely difficult when you start to actually try to do it!

For a start, we all essentially support a football club that is an American-owned company
 
I mean lots of people have already started quiet boycotting. My lad was working in New York all December and invited me over and for the first time in my life I said fuck that. No chance. I love New York but I'm not going there now. Not meant as a boycott, I just don't want to be there at the minute. It's a tiny thing on a personal level but I guess millions of Europeans are making the same decision.
 
And as much as I'm not interested in international footy, I had a great time at the euros in Poland and Ukraine. It was a wonderful couple of weeks. When I saw the itinerary for this world cup I did wonder if I'd be able to jump in and out because I've never had anything but fun in America, but there's absolutely zero chance I'd even think about it under the circumstances. The FIFA peace prize on its own is enough reason to never watch an international match again, unless there comes a time when Infantino is behind bars.
 
Calls for a boycott are merely performative bluster to gain headlines - all teams will attend. Viewing figures will be vaguely interesting, but I suspect it will be similar to Qatar, with millions of people claiming they're not going to watch it, but ultimately tuning in anyway. Despite all the chatter beforehand, the WC final had 1.4 billion views, the most in its history. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that's broken.

I do think fewer fans will travel for it, though.
 
rurikbird said:
Seeing growing calls for the England national team to boycott the Trump Glorification Cup in the summer among politicians and in the media. I’m sure other European countries affected by his tariffs and bullying will strongly consider this as well - can’t imagine Denmark going if they qualify, for instance, and other Nordic nations would likely support them.

I say everyone should absolutely boycott it. Football is not so important in the grand scheme of things, but this is actually a type of message that would get through to Trump - a threat by most Western European nations to pull of the World Cup would be potentially more effective than withholding economic or military cooperation, which he doesn’t care about anyway. Hit him where it hurts - denying him the chance at self-aggrandizement.
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The England national team should threaten to boycott the world cup not because of Trump (who I support) but down to Keir Starmer still being PM.
 
What do fans mean when they say boycott? Not watch it at all? Don't read the news? Or not buy tickets to matches? Because of it's the latter I've been boycotting the world cup since 1990.
 
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