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"Sportswashing" in Football - 2022

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  • #52
    irelandrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119739338#Comment_119739338

    Sport washing is to change reputations that are bad. Such as Qatar trying to get the world Cup to change the reputation of their country. Instead it has brought focus to the slavery there. For every man City fan you have to defend Saudi you have fans of 19 other clubs to denounce them.

    Russian influence in the tory Party is due to the massive amounts of money they give the tory party.

    Just because someone doesnt agree with you doesn't mean they don't understand it.

    Why do Americans keep buying sports clubs as well? Is that also sports washing?



  • #53
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,022 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119740130#Comment_119740130

    It's not though - I've already outlined all the different reasons sportswashing takes place. Surface level reputational laundering is part of it, but not even the biggest part, as detailed in my post above. It's just as much about obfuscation, soft political power, and growing international influence. It's not a mystery anymore, we've seen it in action for decades at this stage, we've seen its successes, and we can see exactly why they're doing it right now on a scale that is larger than ever before, at huge expense.

    Every American to buy a club so far has done so as a financial investment to make a financial return (with their nationalities or individual characters having nothing to do with it). So no, that is not sportswashing.



  • #54
    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    While it's obviously nowhere near the same level of involvement/influence of the likes of the World Cup in Qatar and States owning clubs, what are peoples thoughts on the these friendlies in sportswashing Nations that are branded as tournaments? For example yesterday you had Arsenal and Lyon playing one another in the "Dubai Super Cup". I can't see any other reason for Nations hosting these tournament then using clubs to once again enable their sportswashing.



  • #55
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    I see Brighton are away to Newcastle in February in a 1230 kick off,

    Its almost a 7 hour drive , some crack for away fans to attend the game,

    Footballs for the fans my hole



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