Graeme Souness used the actions of Britain in components of the world, together with Eire, for instance of some hypocrisy over the World Cup going down in Qatar as debate continues to rage over whether or not the match ought to have gone to the nation as a result of its human rights document.
The Rangers and Scotland legend mentioned the UK are “not excellent” as he weighed into the row of the World Cup going down within the Center East given the hundreds of deaths of migrant employees and anti-gay legal guidelines. Working for ITV alongside Irishman Roy Keane, Souness mentioned when quizzed on the matter: “Can I simply say we’re not excellent as properly in our historical past. We’re not excellent," mentioned the Scot. You recognize the British haven’t been excellent in lots of components of the world and together with in Roy’s nation. We’ve been removed from excellent.”
Souness was talking earlier than Saudi Arabia pulled off one of many best shocks in World Cup historical past with a win over Argentina, who're among the many favourites to elevate the trophy in Doha on December 18. And he mentioned: "They will be praying that the soccer will make it an awesome match and folks will not be speaking about (sportswashing and human rights points) going ahead.
"However I am afraid, you understand, there are such a lot of activists on the market that they may perpetually be speaking about Qatar and their human rights document.”
Manchester United legend Keane was adamant that the World Cup shouldn’t be going down in Qatar, who've been dogged by allegations of bribery to win the correct to stage it. He mentioned: “The World Cup shouldn’t be right here. It’s been talked about in regards to the corruption relating to FIFA. However the best way they've handled migrant employees and homosexual folks.
“That must be introduced up. They shouldn’t have the World Cup; you possibly can’t deal with folks like that… All of us love soccer and we’re on about spreading the sport, however to simply dismiss human rights like this isn't proper. It shouldn’t be right here.”
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