The SFA and Moral Authority

[Sir_Walter_Timslayer]

On Friday 5th June, the grand old lady of Scottish football will be defiled and sullied. The guardians of the game in Scotland will break bread with some of the most vile people on the planet. The great and the good of Scotland’s football and civic life will treat their equivalents from Qatar to the finest hospitality, with no regard for the fact that the later are having football stadia built by slave labour kept in concentration camps. And the Tartan Army will sing about fighting and dying for freedom nevertheless.

They will be accompanied by the ghosts of 1977 and Ernie Walker, history repeating itself as farce if not comedy.

And the ghosts of the god knows how many of those slaves that have died in the death trap construction sites before they are complete.

Anything for a quiet life though, it Israel had been the guests, there would have been an outrage, with noisy demonstrations of the most enlightened liberal thinkers in the country showing their outrage and indignation.

And

[jacksgranda]

And they let a convicted tax cheat take charge of well a tax cheating club but you know what I mean.

[Red_Zeppelin]

the auld hoor o edmiston drive has already been defiled

[Sir_Walter_Timslayer]

Yes Zep, your friends in the SFA invited Naz1 Germany to play a friendly match in the 1930s.

And they played a friendly match actually inside a concentration camp in 1977.

And we still haven't learned.

[stewarty27]

September the eleventh
In Nineteen seventy-three
Scores of people perished
In a vile machine-gun spree
Santiago stadium
Became a place to kill
But a Scottish football team
Will grace it with their skill
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Will you go there, Alan Rough
Will you play there, Tom Forsyth
Where so many folk met early
The Grim Reaper with his scythe
These people weren't terrorists
They weren't Party hacks
But some were maybe goalkeepers
And some were centre backs
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Victor Jara played guitar
As he was led into the ground
Then they broke all of his fingers
So his strings no more could sound
Still he kept on singing
Songs of freedom, songs of peace
And though they gunned him down
His message doesn't cease
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Will you go there, Archie Gemmill
Will you play there, Andy Gray
Will it trouble you to hear the voice
Of Victor J

[spameater1]

[quote="Sir_Walter_Timslayer"]On Friday 5th June, the grand old lady of Scottish football will be defiled and sullied. The guardians of the game in Scotland will break bread with some of the most vile people on the planet. The great and the good of Scotland’s football and civic life will treat their equivalents from Qatar to the finest hospitality, with no regard for the fact that the later are having football stadia built by slave labour kept in concentration camps. And the Tartan Army will sing about fighting and dying for freedom nevertheless.

They will be accompanied by the ghosts of 1977 and Ernie Walker, history repeating itself as farce if not comedy.

And the ghosts of the god knows how many of those slaves that have died in the death trap construction sites before they are complete.

Anything for a quiet life though, it Israel had been the guests, there would have been an outrage, with noisy demonstrations of the most enlightened liberal thinkers i

[spameater1]

[quote="stewarty27"]September the eleventh
In Nineteen seventy-three
Scores of people perished
In a vile machine-gun spree
Santiago stadium
Became a place to kill
But a Scottish football team
Will grace it with their skill
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Will you go there, Alan Rough
Will you play there, Tom Forsyth
Where so many folk met early
The Grim Reaper with his scythe
These people weren't terrorists
They weren't Party hacks
But some were maybe goalkeepers
And some were centre backs
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Victor Jara played guitar
As he was led into the ground
Then they broke all of his fingers
So his strings no more could sound
Still he kept on singing
Songs of freedom, songs of peace
And though they gunned him down
His message doesn't cease
And there's blood upon the grass
And there's blood upon the grass

Will you go there, Archie Gemmill
Will you play there, Andy Gray
W

[psych]

and Rangers have just appointed a man who 'accumulated substantial personal wealth' in apartheid South Africa. How does that sit with Rangers and moral authority? I suspect this is slightly more deeply embedded than playing an friendly match against a country that has been awarded the World Cup by FIFA. That is unless you want to fire in to every country in the world as none have said they will not participate in the tournament.

[tarapoa]

I realise this is a topic that could go in all sorts of directions, but on the topic of the opponents for this one, I agree with the OP.

I spent a week working in Qatar, and within a day there, found out what I was employed to do was a stitch up to ensure a lucrative job was created for the son of a very influential figure in the next round of gas licences.

It's a country I'd be happy never to return to - and that's aside from the fact there is only one city there, smaller than Glasgow, and they're somehow meant to accommodate 32 countries in 2022.

[AguyIknow]

Well said Sir Walter (did I really just write that?) and Stewarty.