FIFA and the Disservice to the Cause

Putting aside my lament of our folk still wasting their time, money, and effort on the meaningless inter-racial love-fest that is modern-day football, I’m moved to comment on the galling hypocrisy of FIFA.

In an ultimate affront and dishonour to the war-dead of both European civil wars (WWI and WWII), FIFA has banned the wearing of poppies because football’s world governing body prohibits “political, religious or commercial messages” being displayed on the pitch.

FIFA rules, which the governing body say were made by the four British football associations, state that no political or commercial messages can be displayed on kit during international matches. However, the hypocrisy and contradiction knows no bounds in the case of UEFA.

UEFA is the continental confederation of the world football governing body FIFA. Yet FIFA has no objection to UEFA’s political adventures in adorning its shirts with political statements such as ‘Respect’.

The ‘Respect’ campaign is one to “eliminate racism, discrimination and intolerance”. Can this be any more political? Yes, if the “European body makes full use of its high-profile platforms to send out a key and unequivocal message: No to Racism.”

In “close partnership with the FARE network, which comprises groups and bodies working against intolerance and discrimination across the continent”, UEFA is purporting an overtly political message. Not content with this staple of indoctrination,

UEFA has given considerable financial support to the FARE organisation, and both bodies have co-operated in staging events, issuing publications, and pressing home a message of zero tolerance for any form of racism and discrimination, in favour of more respect for diversity.

Still not political enough? Wait, the plot thickens. FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) describes itself as,

an umbrella organisation that brings together individuals, informal groups and organisations driven to combat inequality in football and use the sport as a means for social change.

Fare combats all forms of discrimination, including racism, far-right nationalism, sexism, trans- and homophobia and discrimination against disabled people.

How cute. So the next time Mr. Ball from Playfields shells out £40+ on a match-day ticket before joining his fan-mates down the pub to bemoan the state of the nation then cheer on those part of the problem, he should consider the consequences of his actions and the hand-rubbing glee of these organisations out to do down him and the Cause. Perhaps then he might take stock of the feasibility of his Saturday outlay instead of scratching his head at the lack of Nationalism’s funding.

“Don’t be so puritanical –folk need to have fun!” I can hear the catcalls. Quite. But not as puritanical (and devoid of all grounding in Nature) is the call for equality and egalitarianism by these groups who –by dint of your purchase of match-day tickets and inadvertent support– you are helping to sustain and advance.

As a case-study, let’s look at the cost of supporting your team. These prices don’t include the 6-8 pints throughout the day, fares for foreign-owned taxis, and the monthly subscription to The Tribe-owned cable network to catch the mid-week foreign matches over an ice-cold four-pack.

It is commendable that Scotland and England stood up to the diktats of FIFA. However, they didn’t protest the issue on the basis of the evidential exasperating hypocrisy and contradiction. To his credit, Ex-Scottish Football Association chief executive Gordon Smith, in a recent interview with Sky News, pointed out the duplicity by alluding to the ‘Respect’ armband and scoffing, “[paraphrased] but that’s not political?”

The overall point here is not the banning of the poppy but the arrant hypocrisy and contradiction in festooning football shirts and advertising banners with overt political slogans while at the same time disabling any suggestion of pride. The bias is evident –so too is the political and cultural conditioning that modern-day football (with its inter-racial Kumbaya celebrations should air-filled leather touch net) induces upon us.

Rather than a fine (unless the fine is then to be donated to the Royal British Legion –hmm…) I hope both Scotland and England are docked crucial World Cup points and consequently crash out of a completion that provides false comfort and diversion from, among many other issues, the multi-racial hellhole that supporting the multi-racial “England” national team, and the minority-native local teams, partly fosters.

 

By Rick Lee © 2016

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