'Human rights abuses and homophobia in Qatar make me queasy about this World Cup' - GaryLineker 💬 'We’re going there to broadcast it... but we’re there to report on it not support it. We’re not cheerleaders for it and that’s an important thing”
“They’ve been very educational in terms of telling us how sports washing works and the fact it only really works if you stop talking about the issues. So we will be talking about them. The first show will be almost like a mini Panorama because we’ve got a responsibility to tell it how it is.”
“Obviously once the football starts we will mostly be concentrating on that but we won’t be going there to do the puff pieces we would perhaps normally do in a country,” he says. Lineker was in Zurich canvassing votes for England’s doomed 2018 bid when Sepp Blatter tore asunder the envelope that prised open the Pandora’s Box we are now dealing with. He was open mouthed back then and time has not diluted his objections to Qatar being awarded the honour.
“But I haven’t felt quite the same about this one. I’m a little queasy about it,” he says. “The human rights, the deaths building the stadiums, the homophobia in their laws, none of it sits right.
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