How will The Athletic be covering the World Cup and navigating the moral issues? AlexKayJelski explains. 'To be clear, I don’t think there’s a straightforward, ‘right’ answer but this is what we’ve decided.'
And that makes it hard. I know I’ve found it hard and not just because I’m a gay man. Because the World Cup is still the biggest global sporting event on the planet and everyone reading this loves football. This could be Lionel Messi’s glorious swan song,
Some will write about great games and goals, others will break stories about line-ups or fallouts and a few more will bring you in-depth podcasts, videos and articles on football in the sort of insane detail you expect fromBut also many will focus on what’s happening off the pitch, on the fact that some LGBT+ fans are having to stay in safe houses, on the families of the workers who died building the stadiums, on the absurd politics that brought the tournament to Qatar, on the reality of the...
My instinct is that it’s OK to feel both ways. It’s not your fault that this tournament is in Qatar and after a World Cup cycle that has seen a harrowing global pandemic, Brexit, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and now the cost of living crisis, not being able to enjoy the escapism of football is surely a punishment nobody deserves.
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