ICYMI, the UAE - owners of Manchester City - are openly courting the UK far-right and will look to help them into government. The UAE's hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood aligns with Reform's islamophobia and the quid pro quo will be gruesome for UK democracy.
www.ft.com/content/7f05...
After spending years bluewashing FIFA with various MoUs and photo opps with UN agencies, Infantino joins the world’s dictators and warmongers in welcoming Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ - set up to undermine the very existence of the UN itself.
And all for… what?
Senior British politician has raised the spectre of UK sanctions against Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour Al Nahyan.
"Sheikh Mansour is possibly the most high profile UAE investor in the country. What are we going to do about that?"
Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.”
Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
"Alaa is not a saint. He is, however, a hero of a stolen revolution, and a potent symbol of hope for millions still living under brutal dictatorship" @naomiaklein.bsky.social sets the record straight www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gianni Infantino accused of breaking Fifa rules with Trump’s peace prize www.theguardian.com/football/202...
🧵I was thrilled to meet Abdullah Ibhais at #PTG2025. Abdullah was former media manager for Qatar’s World Cup Committee (FIFA’s local partner), who spent three years in prison after voicing concerns over the treatment of migrant workers on World Cup construction projects.
"The volte-face increasingly looks like the last act of a piece of political theatre that allowed UEFA’s senior leadership to signal its support for the people of Gaza, while avoiding taking any action to help them."
Read the analysis from @ncgeehan.bsky.social below ⬇️
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Six of the world’s biggest sports organisations, including FIFA, the International Cricket Council & Formula 1, are being challenged to justify their sponsorship deals with state-owned Saudi Aramco. These partnerships may place them in breach of international human rights standards.
Amnesty has written to call on FIFA and UEFA to suspend the Israeli FA until clubs from illegal settlements are excluded from its leagues.
While football supports Israel’s occupation, over 800 athletes & sports officials in Gaza have been killed in its genocide.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne....
Many migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the 2022 WC infrastructure found themselves jobless after the tournament. @josimarfootball.bsky.social reveals how some of them have been recruited by the Russian army, are fighting and die on the Ukrainian front.
josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...
A wonderful day for a remarkable man and his amazing family fairsq.org/alaa-abd-el-...
Ant Middleton tweet of video featuring him and Tommy Robinson, with text reading: Ant Middleton @antmiddleton Behind the scenes before we takeover our capital... 0:19/ 0:29 68
Still of video, showing Middleton filming himself
Crypto-grifting, Dubai resident and would-be Reform candidate for London Mayor proudly posts a video of him hanging out with Tommy Robinson before a far-right gathering in the city he claims to want to lead.
ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
That’s 10% of the entire population of Gaza in 2 years
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Hundreds of migrant workers at Saudi firm Sendan Intl., including those on Aramco projects, went unpaid for up to 8 months—many stranded, undocumented, or forced home without wages. #SaudiArabia
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
On Saturday, an estimated 1500 people sat down on Parliament Square in London in a peaceful protest, holding up placards declaring their opposition to genocide and their support for a non-violent activist group.
890 of these people were arrested.
This is what today looks like: elderly people arrested just for holding signs. Shame on this government and its police.
That Labour's objection to Reform's programme of aggressive white nationalism is "they don't have a fully costed plan for their network of concentration camps" tells you just how dangerously lost this government is.
No end to the cruelty for Palestinians
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
FFS.
He didn't "kick off".
It's not a "jibe".
He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.
This is what *athleticide* looks like, a term scholars like @nkalamb.bsky.social & others are increasingly using
"Who nowadays bothers to pay heed to Starmer or the EU’s Kaja Kallas, for example, when they express outrage on behalf of Ukrainian civilians?
.... that the west seems only to pay only lip service to the suffering of Gazans, Ethiopians, South Sudanese and others comes across as distinctly racial"
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
While the climate crisis hits football hard, Gianni Infantino still plans to promote the world’s biggest polluter - Saudi Aramco - at next year’s World Cup.
We are appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including nine children and four women, who were waiting in line for nutritional supplies for children in Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip, this morning. An additional 30 people were reportedly injured, including 19 children. - Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director
“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory, and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians.” - UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
Full statement: unicef.link/40Kib1K
Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah
‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
We're gearing up for the big Parliamentary debate on a fossil ad ban. We spot that the ad self-regulator, the ASA, has chosen this moment to "reassure" the public about advertising. 😏 But worth noting a fossil fuel ad & sponsor ban is the tobacco control for 21st century &...
The *athleticide* continues in Gaza, as Palestinian National Team player Muhannad Fadl al-Lay died yesterday after being wounded in an Israeli attack on his home earlier this week. Israel's attacks have completely destroyed 184 sports facilities in Gaza. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-fo...
