No sport is worth the cost of corruption and racketeering that football brings to the table. It makes boxing look like an ethical masterclass by comparison. All sports require its fans to be tribal, but football takes everything to the next level, and the violence of the sport's fanbase speaks for itself. Hosting something that's supposed to be the "world's game" in a place like Qatar is more than enough evidence that ethics are purely secondary to profit. This is not the "world's game", but it is a game that is out to profit from that world in whatever ways it can.
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No sport is worth the cost of corruption and racketeering that football brings to the table. It makes boxing look like an ethical masterclass by comparison. All sports require its fans to be tribal, but football takes everything to the next level, and the violence of the sport's fanbase speaks for itself. Hosting something that's supposed to be the "world's game" in a place like Qatar is more than enough evidence that ethics are purely secondary to profit. This is not the "world's game", but it is a game that is out to profit from that world in whatever ways it can.