FIFA to gay fans: "No gay sex at Qatar World Cup." Seriously.

[WilliamPitt]

Fifa boss tells gay fans: 'Don't have sex at Qatar World Cup'
Calls for Sepp Blatter to resign after he advises gays to abstain from sex in 2022 in Qatar where homosexuality is illegal

Owen Gibson, sports news correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 December 2010 21.42 GMT

Fifa president Sepp Blatter today provoked calls for his resignation after joking that gay football fans should "refrain" from sex during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.

Asked about concerns over the treatment of gay fans at the 2022 tournament, Blatter appeared to laugh the question off, saying: "I would say they should refrain from any sexual activities."

Blatter and South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, sitting alongside him at a press conference to discuss the legacy of the 2010 World Cup, both laughed awkwardly, as did several journalists present.

But the Fifa president's response and that of the assembled audience provoked anger from John Amaechi, the former NBA basketball star who revealed he was gay in 2007. He accused Blatter of "epic ignorance".

Meanwhile, campaign groups said he risked undermining work to combat homophobia in football and called on him to apologise immediately or stand down.

The rest: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/14/fifa-boss-gay-fans-no-sex



Derp.

[Ezlivin]

1. So what else am I supposed to with my balls during the game?

Damn. I thought scoring was the whole idea!

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Is sex on the field interfering with play?

If not, then Blathter needs to STFU already!

[Hosnon]

3. Or maybe FIFA should spearhead the movement to force Qatar to change its ridiculous law.

Just sayin.

[PBS Poll-435]

4. spearhead

:rofl:

[AngryAmish]

5. There I was, planning on having gay sex twelves years from now on the other side of the world....

and this guy has to go and ruin it.

What if I just cuddle with some dude instead?

This is so fucking stupid. Shame this guy out of office.

[pampango]

6. FIFA might want to ban nonwhites (players and fans) from Russia in 2018.

Riots in Russia rooted in nationalism, hatred of immigrants

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121305794.html

Street melees here over the past few days, sparked by the killing of a soccer fan and fueled by nationalists' hatred of immigrants from the Caucasus, have caught the police and other authorities unprepared for an upsurge of rage that appears to reflect a larger sense of anger in Russian society.

The riots by right-wing nationalists and extremists have put political leaders on the spot: How should they go about cracking down on a movement that until now typically has been a useful right flank for those in power?

The Kremlin has spent the past decade nurturing nationalist sentiment in Russia, especially among the young. Now, hundreds and sometimes thousands of furious young men have been gathering around Moscow and other cities, shouting nationalist slogans, making fascist salutes and beating up darker-skinned people who appear to be from the Caucasus or Central Asia.

On Sunday, Russia's interior minister, Rashid Nurgaliyev, sought to blame the riots on left-wing radicals, but the chants and slogans point to the right. At the same time, they speak to a broader sense of anger in Russian society that turns up regularly in polls and private conversations but rarely finds a way to express itself.

[damntexdem]

7. What about vuvuzelas?

Vuvuzela sex?

Why not boycott FIFA for placing its matches in a country that outlaws gay sex?

[KamaAina]

8. Kick It Out!

Homophobia as well as racism.