Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Football tipsters: Can we divide City`s beautiful football from human rights

`I was in the pub and the Manchester derby went on TV. Three guys in the middle of their 20s came in and one of them ordered the first round, ordered three mugs on the table and said "So we got it, did not we? `No politics! We drink one or two and watch the game. No politics!" Everyone nodded affirmly, swallowed lightly and turned to the screen. When Manchester City scored a goal, one of the boys was excited:This is great, but he was bought with the money of a state that executed gays. The other two turned and shot him verbally:No politics!`
`It was an interesting anecdote, and I find that bass is typical of many people.
While City is paving the way for another championship title, ranging from amazing to amazing football, should we be like that kid in the bar? Or can we ignore the fact that the owner of the citizens is a member of a royal family who runs a country where they gladly punish gays with imprisonment, screaming, beating or death? How does homosexuality kill a suitable owner`s pass passed by any Premier League club buyer? Is there any level of investment at all to clear this spot?
Add a bunch of documented human rights violations to this, and we have not even reached the accusations of financial doping and dirty image cleansing through sport. This makes it understandable why many feel, mildly, abhorrent. I do not want to think that even the most loving and one-sided City fan would look for a way to protect the killing of gay men in return for 31 wins per season.`

`I personally would never have swallowed it. Every time I see this team, it always comes into my mind. I try again and again to forget this and just enjoy the art of his remarkable football but I can not. It just seems to me an unbeatable example of high immorality. I`m sure I`m not alone in this feeling.
But am I so funny? Even adventurous? Are not I just ashamed to feel that way? After all, if you look at everythi ng in detail, you would be morally divided for almost everything. You would never listen to some great musicians, you would never look at great works of art, you would never read great books. Because many of them are created by people who did really bad things. Okay, they probably were not part of a royal family running a country applying the death penalty to gay men, but hey, everything is a creeping rock, is not it?`
`You would also find it hard to get to work because the interconnectedness of everything means you could always track the origin of your salary to something reprehensible done by someone in the business. In a nutshell, you can find something wrong in everything and everywhere.
Can you support a football club without indirectly supporting or being uncritical to the detour of its owners to the killing of the gays? Maybe just being too naive. The club is not the owner. The club from contacts with best football tips is something completely separate.`

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