See for me this isn’t about sending some kind of message about us agreeing or not agreeing with what’s happening in the US. For me it goes deeper than that.
ATM the US isn’t safe.
Innocent people are literally being gunned down in the street. We don’t know how many at this point, we know there have been the two so far caught on camera but how many more?This needs to be about the safety of the players, the safety of the fans, and as things stand there are countries who will be playing behind closed doors anyway as there are already travel bans on those countries.
And then there is Trump.
Nobody is in any doubt as to the kind of hateful individual he is, but he’s almost being looked at as a comedic figure, and that is so incredibly dangerous. “Oh did you hear what Trump has said now,” is a common phrase, followed by hollow laughter and the assurance that of course he’ll backtrack, he always does.
Until he doesn[t.
It’s inevitable, but people are so busy just laughing at him that they’re sleep-walking their way towards it.
We need to declare the US the dangerous place that it is.
We need to have foreign office travel bans there.
And the World Cup will just be a part of that. Not for political reasons, but because the US needs to be a no-go zone full stop.
And trump needs to be stopped.
We need to start taking him seriously. Even if we know that most of the threats he makes will never become reality.
We need to be prepared for when they do. And strike first.