soccer
Brisbane’s rainbow FU FIFA at Suncorp Stadium 🏳️🌈
Intentionally or not, Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium extended a giant FU FIFA when the stadium lit up in rainbow lights during last night’s England v Haiti match. In early July, FIFA announced a ban on players at the Women’s World Cup wearing the One Love armband in support of LGBTQIA+ rights. Of course, the organisation also …
Lucky Beckham was good at soccer, he’s shite on history
Former gay icon David Beckham this week finally attempted to justify accepting millions of dollars from the autocratic Qatari regime to act as an ‘ambassador’ for the 2022 World Cup. The former soccer player is reportedly receiving $272 million over 10 years from Qatar, $17 million of it for his World Cup duties. Media reported …
Grant Wahl: rainbow shirt journo dies suddenly in Qatar
Grant Wahl, the senior American sports reporter who criticised Qatar over LGBTIQA+ issues and worker’s rights, died suddenly yesterday — in Qatar. Last month, Qatari officials detained Grant Wahl when he wore a shirt featuring a rainbow flag design into a stadium for a World Cup game. Grant wore the shirt to show support for …
Qatar: step right up for the greatest shitshow on earth
The greatest shitshow on earth continues in Qatar where security and police continue to harass soccer fans wearing suspicious multi-coloured apparel. On Saturday, security threatened to call police unless Bengt Kunkel and another German fan threw their rainbow armbands in a bin. Bengt Kunkel, pictured above, told CNN the security came out of nowhere. “They …
David Beckham: paid defender of Qatar sportswashing
Monday will see the opening of the greatest exercise in sportswashing the world has ever known. But $17.8 million ‘ambassador’ David Beckham now claims the Qatar soccer pitch as a ‘platform for progress’. The biggest sporting event in history will take place in a near absolute monarchy with a dismal human rights record. Qatar criminalises …
Qatar stops pretending: homosexuality ‘damage in the mind’
The sportswashing is over, the mask has slipped, Qatar is no longer pretending, and FIFA’s assurances count for nothing. An interview with the Qatari World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman on German TV was suddenly cut short after the former footballer described homosexuality as ‘damage in the mind’. “They have to accept our rules here. “[Homosexuality] …
Soccer stars Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris marry
US soccer stars, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, members of the champion 2019 World Cup team, married yesterday in Miami. CNN reports the couple met in 2010. They began dating soon after. Scroll down for the wedding day vid The day before the wedding, Ali Krieger tweeted to Ashlyn Harris, “It’s time baby. I’ve been …
Aussie Soccer Star Tameka Butt Shares Her Beautiful Marriage Proposal
Two soccer teammates have shared photos of their beachside marriage proposal just days after Christmas. Queenslander Tameka Butt has played for the Brisbane Roar since 2008 and last July scored a historic winning goal for the Matildas in their clash against the US national team in the first Tournament of Nations. And the 26-year-old midfielder …
