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Playing in the World Cup while berating host Qatar?

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and wanting to wear OneLove armbands will not absolve rich players of moral culpabilit­y.

My son and I have decided we will not watch any of the games, even if England reach the final — a small, pointless gesture, perhaps, but at least we will not feel like hypocrites.

John Lawrance, enfield, Middx. WIll the england team please note: black and gay people do not want, or need, your false virtue‑signalling, because they know that if you really believed in what you are trying to achieve you would not be in that country in the first place.

d. heRnon, stockport, gtr Manchester. WHILE I in no way agree with the Qataris’ beliefs nor their way of life, I think it is wrong of the West to harangue them about these at a football tournament. The government­s of participat­ing countries obviously don’t feel it is a platform for protest or they would have pulled their teams from the event a long time ago. Gianni Infantino has a point.

We in Europe seem to think it is our way or the highway. What right do we have to berate their views and culture?

tony John, Littlehamp­ton, W. sussex. The Qatar World Cup will always be remembered for Beckham’s hypocrisy, Infantino’s delusion and the thousands of migrant constructi­on workers who died building the stadiums.

Alan aitchison, havercroft, W. yorks. IT IS fascinatin­g to see the enthusiasm of the woke brigade in the UK wanting Qatar to follow a woke agenda at the World Cup. Surely such interferen­ce in the sovereignt­y of another country echoes the colonialis­m that the dear, deluded woke complain of in the history of their own nation?

Ron Hill, Weymouth, dorset. GIANNI Infantino’S rambling hour‑long pre‑World Cup press briefing was aimed at appeasing liberal lefties around the world, as he tried to downplay the thousands of migrant deaths during the building of the ‘Qatar dream’ by saying that we shouldn’t focus on their horrific plight, and instead must concentrat­e on apologisin­g for the historic slave trade.

That’s like exposing the real Jack the Ripper, and then putting his (or her) great‑great‑great‑grandchild­ren on trial for Jack’s wicked crimes. It is typical of today’s snowflake, wokerati apologist brigade. Ashley sMith, March, cambs.

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