Beckham - blood money

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Beckham has earned at least £70million ( although sources say nearer £145 million) to be ambassador for the World Cup Qatar
At least 6.5 thousand workers have already died bringing football to Qatar. The working conditions are appalling. Something that a few million towards decent temporary housing, water and food would solve.
They also criminalise homosexuality whilst Beckham has been a gay rights advocate.

Just how can he accept such huge fees on the back of such a regime? Or at least not use the fee to highlight how to make football a game without shame.

Bloody hell the bar for men really is low. All you have to do is be attractive (apparently he’s considered attractive, I think he’s pig ugly and always has been) and stand in a queue for a while and people will overlook accepting money to promote a place that despises women and imprisons gay men.

a colleague and his wife worked in Qatar for a while. She was pregnant and miscarried at 18 weeks. She kept her maiden name and my colleague had a face against time digging out her marriage certificate because she was going to be arrested in hospital for extra marital relations unless she provided proof of marriage, because her surname did not match her DH’s.

But hey, let’s all go visit there because David Beckham says it’s cool

oh dear, all I did was post links to stories about groups boycotting the WC in Qatar. Maybe one day the links will appear, unless MN is hiding all my posts now...

Exactly. They have been awarded the wordcup in 2010. That makes 650 migrant workers a year approx. Still not great but considering it counts out of work accidents, the number might not be as horrific when it comes to at-work deaths. I believe UK had about 120 work related deaths last year. Though we of course have CONSIDERABLY more workers!

Do people realise that Qatar has an appealing human rights record despite the lack of dead workers, rights?

No amount of money is ever enough for the Beckhams. They are greedy bastards. It's absolutely gross.

He only queued for the queen cos he is so fucking desperate for a knighthood.

Remember his leaked tantrum 🤣

The reason so many non Qatari workers die of ‘natural causes’ is because that means no compensation has to be paid to the families. Yeah natural causes my arse.

I wouldn’t trust any data coming from Qatar. They don’t like people speaking out against the country.

@CatchYouOnTheFlippetyFlop ooh what leaked tantrum??

I'll see if I can find a link, but he was pissing and moaning saying how he's so unappreciated in this country and how could Katherine Jenkins get a damehood when all she has done was snort coke lol.

I don’t think anyone is disputing Qatars human rights record.

If you are going to start using facts and figure to back up a point, and those facts and figures are wildly incorrect people are going to point that out.

Theres a huge difference between the figures no discussion is ever made better by false facts.

Whew.
Thanks all. I was worried about the human abuse in Quatar and Beckham compliance.
Obviously I’m being over dramatic. There’s probably very few dead.

Exactly

www.sportingnews.com/au/football/news/david-beckham-leaked-emails-unless-its-a-knighthood-f-off/1b9xit6evlxlu1qbf5gkontop6

Lol. I like to think the Queen had the measure of him and that’s why she wouldn’t knight him. What a thoroughly annoying man and annoying family all round!

The facts and figures aren’t wildly incorrect. Apart from 6500 is probably a wild undercount as it didn’t include several countries’ statistics.

If this is true, the world Cup should be cancelled for this year and given to another nation. I don't care if that means that we don't get a world cup for another few years while another country gets everything ready. 6 people dying would be 6 too many.

Rather than singling out an easy target, why not tell us what YOU have done to help end the abuse in Qatar? I bet where you work, you have benefitted from a policy or decision that put someone else at a disadvantage. Have you done anything about it or is it just easier to blame Celebrities for an unfair world?

Ooh now I wonder of uk keeps numbers on foreign workers dying. I can't find anything.
I know of quite a few cases most of which would be natural, accident, some murder, eh soz manslaugher apparently.
Note, not to compare! Just curious if the numbers are kept?

The FA are so wrong ever giving it to Qatar and there are huge boycotts happening because of it. DH and I FINALLY have the money to afford a few weeks trip to a World Cup tournament and I just would never go there, not for all the tea in China

He's still not got that knighthood has he?

Maybe he is trying it now through different Royals😁

Whataboutry? I don’t give any money to Qatar or my time or my endorsement.

Beckham is not an “easy” target. He’s the reason people will think the World Cup is perfectly fine to take place there and the Qatari “government” ( family) are acceptable. Anyone who has worked there knows it’s not.

Anyone? How many of people who worked there did you soeak to?
Because I remember from previous threads quite a few people saying it''s allright for some.

The irony being Victoria pushing her Pride T-shirts hard over the summer which of course was nothing but a huge PR move to muddy the waters with their ‘stance’ on these issues because she knew DB was pimping for Qatar.

As a Spice Girls fan its really not a good look but they are money hungry so not out of character, shrewd and calculated stunts like the queueing thing all to make him out to be the nice guy whilst he looks the other way promoting Qatar.

B is no longer in the Spice Girls is she? I don’t think she toured with them on last tour. She’s out me off seeing them TBH