Fighting against abuse & injustice in football. Visit our website and tell the @FA to stand up for our sport! #Qatar2022 #ThisIsntFootball
London, England
Joined October 2022
- Tweets145
- Following243
- Followers124
- Likes143
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Good. Finally the Premier League are standing up to the City owners.
Over 100 alleged breaches of financial rules since 2009 - insane.
#ThisIsntFootball
This Isn’t Football retweeted
The work in #Qatar is far from over. The tournament is finished and the public eye is elsewhere, but many of the workers who made the #FIFAWorldCup possible are still owed compensation. We are continuing to put pressure on #Qatar and #FIFA to ensure justice for exploited workers.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
“This World Cup is stained, that’s the bottom line.” Roy Keane ends Qatar 2022 as he started it.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Every day, two thousand Nepalis fly from the Kathmandu airport for overseas jobs. But 3-4 dead bodies arrive at the same airport on average each day. Soon before the World Cup, we witnessed a near-daily scene: the arrival of coffins from Qatar. Our latest: nytimes.com/2022/12/12/sport…
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Compensation from Qatar is a distant dream in most cases. Families say the embassy isn’t pro-active and the deaths of migrant workers aren’t investigated. Without evidence or financial means, they are unable to pick a legal fight or put pressure on companies overseas. My latest.
“Workers like my husband made Qatar rich and developed, but what do we get? Nothing.”
Migrant workers died to produce the World Cup, but not all families in Nepal received compensation.
Read the full story: opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-…
This Isn’t Football retweeted
As featured by @DM_Harding in the @Independent, this is Dhanakala Belbase.
Her husband Kashi died in 2015 on his 2nd trip to Qatar, aged 32.
Dhanakala was 24 with two young children. She only heard about Kashi's death from his co-workers.
They have received no compensation.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Roy Keane in Doha: “The World Cup shouldn’t be here, it shouldn’t be here.”
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Appalling to see the @FA let down fans across the country by giving in to FIFA's ruling.
Demand the FA take real action via our website:
👉 ThisIsntFootball.org
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Today, I feel gay.
My piece on today’s betrayal of LGBT people by the world of football and just what that feels like.
For @TheAthleticFC from Doha.
theathletic.com/3918147/2022…
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Always said if you're going to go cover this tournament, then use that platform for good. Alex Scott is showing support for LGBTQ people to millions in the UK and around the world.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Infantino has even managed to force the teams not to wear the #OneLove armband. How pathetic?! How about 🌈 laces 🤔? #WorldCup2022
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Our statement on FIFA's decision on the 'One Love' armband 👇🏽
ALT We are disappointed that FIFA are intent on imposing sanctions on European nations who choose to wear the ‘One Love’ armband, preventing teams from sending a strong statement to the world that diversity and inclusion are an integral part of the game. This decision continues to highlight FIFA’s failure to address concerns of both human rights groups and the LGBTQ+ community in the build-up to this tournament.
ALT Players and fans should not have had to bear the burden of FIFA’s mistakes and we will continue to support Gareth Southgate, and his team, as they look to explore other ways to demonstrate their anti-discrimination values. Football should be a game for everyone and Kick It Out continues to stand with the LGBTQ+ community in solidarity.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Be sure to use this excellent website to inform the FA of just how pathetic they really are.
Appalling to see the @FA let down fans across the country by giving in to FIFA's ruling.
Demand the FA take real action via our website:
👉 ThisIsntFootball.org
This Isn’t Football retweeted
Football is great at watering things down to the most pathetic compromise imaginable, then deciding you can't even have that.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
100% this. FIFA are bluffing. They won't allow their showpiece to be overshadowed by littering bookings on the captains taking part
Secondly, protest is protest for a reason. If @EnglandFootball and @Cymru can't even be bothered to keep on a simple armband, what hope do we have?
This Isn’t Football retweeted
There's no other way of putting it, really. The armband was the federations' single but very meek gesture about all of the various issues around this World Cup.
To back down because of a yellow card would be weak, unless they did something bigger.
This Isn’t Football retweeted
We’re calling on the @FA to commit to greater action, and not just words.
Here are our four demands
#ThisIsntFootball