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Lack of infrastructure is not the crazy bit. Everyone knows that they have the money to throw at the problem. The fact that all games of WC will be played in o
by hcho 11y ago
Lack of infrastructure is not the crazy bit. Everyone knows that they have the money to throw at the problem.
The fact that all games of WC will be played in one city is the problem. All the fans in contact for a prolonged span...It won't end well.
- austenallred 11y ago> Everyone knows that they have the money to throw at the problem. They may have money to throw at the problem, but Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup died at a rate of almost one per day. Look at the full report, it's astounding: * Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project. * Some Nepalese men have alleged that they have not been paid for months and have had their salaries retained to stop them running away. * Some workers on other sites say employers routinely confiscate passports and refuse to issue ID cards, in effect reducing them to the status of illegal aliens. * Some labourers say they have been denied access to free drinking water in the desert heat. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars...
- hcho 11y agoYes, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals had similar experiences. As a matter of fact they have been experiencing this for decades in the region. Have the wrong passport and you are a slave.
- mason240 11y agoIt's been estimated that a worker will die for every minute of game time across the tournament. Every minute of play = one dead worker.
- jgreen10 11y agoNational football fans are not like club football fans. There is very little hooliganism in international football, nor would anyone have any energy for it in the searing heat.
- koyote 11y agoI would disagree, it might have been a while but there was quite a bit of hooliganism during the WC98 in France: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/16/sports/world-cup-98-fans-set-off-another-day-of-violence.html http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/16/sports/world-cup-98-fans-s...
- curun1r 11y agoI took a train from Nice to Paris right after this happened and two English "fans" shared the compartment I was sitting in. It was one of the most frightening experiences I've ever had traveling. All they could talk about was recounting their "exploits" in the events described in your linked article. One even bragged that he "got a Tunisian so good he might not pull through." The lack of humanity they displayed was an eye opener for me and helped me come to the realization that Soccer/Football has become the proxy for war in Europe. While that is, all things considered, an excellent development (I'll take hooliganism over world wars), it's also scary that people seem to have a deep-seeded, tribal need to fight and, when we do, we seem to lose all compassion for the opposition. Events like the World Cup seem to play on this need rather than trying to quash it.
- psykovsky 11y agoSo little they even wrote a book about it. Violence and the Euro 2004, in Portuguese. http://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/ielt/pt/acontecendo/no-passado/132 http://ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/ielt/pt/acontecendo/no-passado/132