Qatar has found the perfect answer to the criticisms

You remember that Romelu Lukaku? With malicious treachery yesterday the Gazzetta recalled that the Inter forward – on loan from Chelsea – costs 46 thousand euros per minute, and that for the little he has played and concluded it is a wrong investment. Inzaghi’s team in the last month seems to be able to do without the player who two years ago gave the Scudetto to Conte, and his parable (for the moment) reminds us that the return horses are almost always lame, especially if they are gone with thunderous declarations of love for the new team.

He knows it well Cristiano Ronaldo, become trivial supporting actor in a Manchester United that seems to be starting to find the right place. CR7 is now the grandfather of the team, the one who assists the kids who were born when he was already playing and who celebrate him and thank him on Instagram as you do with former footballers. His greatness will be accepting this role, especially after the last World Cup of his career, where Portugal will hardly go far. Meanwhile, Ronaldo is waiting to know if in the Europa League he will have to meet his former team – Juventus – or perhaps that of his former coach Mourinho. I must say that my favorite trash cup, the Europa League, this year sees squadrons decayed pretty good from the sixteenths onwards, so much so that it looks a lot like a tournament of old glories. Not like that intestinal flu of the Champions League, which by the way will win an Englishwoman. And speaking of things that the British will win, the closer we get to the World Cup, the more controversy and counter-controversy grow over Qatar and who would have the moral license to participate in the World Cup.

The declarations of those who, not playing in Qatar, dissociate themselves from Qatar saying that they will not support the competition are multiplying. The emirs have already found the perfect answer to every criticism, and it is a must in our mollaccione world, the gne-gne that is fashionable: “Whoever accuses us is racist!”. Panic among Westerners: but how, we who fight racism every day with ad hoc captain bands, t-shirts worn in the pre-match and arresting anyone who says “bu” at the stadium?!? Manchester City also managed to say that Klopp’s words that Guardiola’s side can afford everything financially are racist. The always very correct Guardian launches into dangerous distinctions, saying that yes, England hosted the final phase of the European Championship in the middle of the Windrush scandal (go and find it, I have no space to explain it) and the United States organized a World Cup while deploying troops military in almost all continents, but in short “the criticisms of Qatar have come from human rights bodies, trade unions and leftist voices”, so they are worth more!

It is the same reasoning behind the dangerous requests to exclude Iran from the World Cup and send Ukraine in its place, which deserves it as a country invaded by Putin, or (and here I laugh a lot) Italy, because it won the European. I say “dangerous” not because you don’t think that Iran is not a shitty regime – but who cares what I think – but because if the criterion for participating in a sports competition is no longer sporting merit will be increasingly arbitrary and dictated by media emotion. First Russia is excluded because it makes war (as if it were the only one), then Iran because it does not respect human rights (as if it were the only one), then what is done, via the countries that elect governments that do not like them to the New York Times? Good for Brazil that Lula was re-elected, in case of confirmation of Bolsonaro as president someone would certainly have proposed to exclude Neymar’s national team from the competition. By preventing a lot of transgender fans from following her from stadium stands in Qatar, by the way.