Well chaps, its been fun but I don't wanna waste any more time on your verbiage. Time to move back on topic.
The Saudi Arabia football team refused to line up for a minute's silence to remember the victims of the London terror attack today.
From the
Telegraph:
The Saudi Arabian football team were booed by Australian supporters after they failed to properly line up for a minute's silence in honour of the victims of the London Bridge terror attacks.
Saudi Arabia were preparing to play Australia in a World Cup qualifier at the Adelaide Oval when the stadium announcer called for a minute's silence to begin.
The Australia team linked arms in a line on the centre circle while the Saudi Arabia team stood in random formation as the silence began.
This wasn't a random minute of silence, two Aussies died in the London terror attack and this game took place in Australia.The nurse who ran towards the victims of the car accident before being killed was from South Australia and studied in Adelaide where the game was being held. In my opinion, it's basic respect for the away team to participate in this gesture of goodwill. If a legend from a football team died and their club had a minute of silence at their next home game, it'd be scandalous for the away team not to respect it, despite having nothing to do with them.
Thoughts? Football fans chime in?
In my opinion Saudi Arabia is a detestable state. But, if I play devils advocate for a moment, perhaps the Saudis were against this minute of silence because they felt it was a bit over the top given that there's rarely (if ever) a minutes silence held when theres a bombing in Iraq, Syria, or Iran (who experienced their first major terrorist attack in some time just the other day). Maybe they felt there is way too much onus placed on this attack because westerners are affected while other tragedies and violent deaths take place every other day in the Middle East without much recognition for those killed or maimed by the western media...
In the past, the SA government provided direct support to ISIS, as was proven by both a leaked Hillary Clinton
doc, and referred to in a
DoD report. Personally, I dont blame the football team at all. I just think SA is run by a bunch of tyrannical assholes. The sooner they run out of petrol, or the world turns to renewable energy the better.