Weaponising the World Cup
First published: Watson R (2026) Football’s just the sideshow at this woke World Cup TCW defending Freedom 11 June
Football’s just the sideshow at this woke World Cup
There are few, if any, mass viewing events that cannot be turned against us. In fact, it is precisely because they are mass viewing events that they are used this way.
Take cinema and television as examples. No film is complete these days without a transsexual hero or a gay kiss. A recent United States made film set in rural England, the execrable The Sheep Detectives, featured a black shepherd, a black vicar (not that unlikely actually), a female South Asian postie and an East Asian shopkeeper. All in a small village set in the middle of nowhere.
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Football is no exception. Remember the ridiculous spectacle of ‘taking the knee’ by English league footballers for the death of a violent drug dealer who died thousands of miles from England and who may not even have died as a result of police action.
Give Me a Water Break
I was at Wembley Stadium last month for the English Football League Championship play-off final and, for the first time, ‘hydration breaks’ were used in each half of the game to allow players to ‘take on’ water. Admittedly, it was a hot day, and spectators had their own problems getting enough to drink.
But those on the pitch are some of the fittest young men in the country and in previous years, equally hot ones, hydration breaks have never been considered necessary. As far as I recall, all the players walked off the pitch at the end of the game.
I would not wish to see football players dehydrate. But how likely is that given they can drink before the game, whenever there is a break in play and at half-time? They are only on the pitch for approximately 45 minutes each half anyway, hardly the ‘long march’.
While the warm weather did not last much beyond the Wembley weekend, the English Premier League, not to be outdone by the Championship, considered introducing water breaks in the last day of the season. I may be alone, but I sense that something else is going on.
The Climate Cup
This is all part of the climate emergency scam. Using the principles of reverse causation, hydration breaks have been introduced to brainwash the viewing public about the pressing nature of global warming. If footballers are being given hydration breaks, then things must be bad.
The climate is changing; the world is getting hotter and humans are to blame through their nasty carbon dioxide emissions. However, as Climate: The Movie demonstrates, there is no climate emergency, the planet is not heating up and natural fluctuations in temperature have nothing to do with atmospheric carbon dioxide. Therefore, humans are not responsible.
But nothing stops the global warming fanatics. With the World Cup looming later this month, the opportunity to turn the dial up to eleven on the climate change emergency machine was not to be missed. The 2022 World Cup netted nearly 1.5billion viewers worldwide so, ideal for more climate change propaganda.
Project Fear Takes the Field
In preparation for the day when the World Cup kicks off, the sporting and mainstream media are giving the issue plenty of coverage. The Los Angeles Times was explicit about the hydration breaks during the competition, which FIFA have decided to introduce to each game. Their headline posed the question: ‘Most dangerous World Cup ever?’ and then stated: ‘Climate change poses growing risks for players’.
Things must be bad as ‘some climatologists are worried about a weather-related tragedy occurring during the World Cup’. According to Elliot Arthur-Worsop of Football For Future: “Football’s all of a sudden starting to reckon with the new climate realities.” To which Kaitlyn Trudeau of Climate Central added: “This is not a safe environment and we should not be putting people’s lives at risk.” I’m sure that my grandfather’s platoon leader said something like that to him as he was going over the top at The Somme.
Sky Sports, not to be left out of the panic-mongering, asked ‘How will extreme heat impact this summer’s tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico?’ They concluded that the ‘dangerous level’ was 28C but that some places ‘could reach an even more dangerous 32C’ in the afternoons. And pity the poor players down Mexico way where ‘temperatures can rise as high as 40C.’
Wasn’t all this known prior to the placing of the World Cup in these places and don’t local players play in these temperatures regularly? It only takes 7-14 days to acclimatise from a temperate region to a hot and humid one and that is precisely what the teams are doing now, out there playing friendlies to get warmed up (no pun intended).
Ninety Minutes of Doom
It gets worse regarding the World Cup, and Global Health NOW were on hand to bring us the bad news. Through a link to The Conversation US comes the news that the World Cup ‘creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread’.
The biggest danger is from measles, flu and covid-19; Ebola comes in with an outside chance. But dengue, yellow fever and Oropouche virus are also possible. And we haven’t even got to sexually transmitted infections and our old friend ‘Mpox’. Advice is to keep up to date with vaccinations and to ‘practice safe sex; use mosquito repellent; and stay home or wear a mask’ if you feel sick.
With the football as a sideshow, we can look to every water break, hot afternoon in a crowded stadium being presented as evidence of a looming global health crisis. Football has become merely another vehicle for doom-messaging. Previous generations managed to attend World Cups, Olympic Games and international tournaments without requiring a risk assessment the size of War and Peace. Just how did they manage? Or is the threat not real? I leave you to judge.
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