'A tournament stolen from us': LGBTQ England fans boycott Qatar World Cup over fears for safety 💬 'Their culture says that ultimately, they can put me to death. Ok – not going there then. We wouldn’t travel to somewhere we didn’t feel safe'
He described Beckham’s Qatar deal as “taking money from Fifa to promote a World Cup that he knows is being run by people who have no consideration whatsoever for the basic human rights of anyone”.
“We’ve seen an uptick in the number of people who are attacking statements that come out from ourselves or from others in support of human rights on these issues, telling us to keep politics out of football. He said: “We’ve had a series of meetings the past year or so leading up to the tournament with the supreme committee and with Fifa representatives.
Another fan, Lisa Robinson, 43, from Birmingham, said Qatar hosting the World Cup had made her feel like “it’s been robbed from me”. “You can just see on Twitter, when people put things about football there are a lot derogatory comments coming back from people saying, ‘It’s just football, it’s fine. You’d be alright.’”She described the decision by England captain Harry Kane, and other skippers, to wear the One Love armband – instead of the rainbow LGBTQ armband – as “a bit of an empty gesture”.
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