Armband row: Did football just score an own goal?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky News’ sports correspondent Rob Harris in Qatar, and Jon Holmes, from the campaigning and advocacy group Sports Media LGBT+ about FIFA’s missed opportunity to make a stand for equality in football.
Producer - Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer – Alys Bowen
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku
Editor - Philly Beaumont
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| 1:05.0 | Any other World Cup, you'd describe it as the perfect start for England. |
| 1:17.4 | A first match, 6-2 victory, where the players left it all out on the pitch, after FIFA forced them to leave the armbands in the changing room. |
| 1:24.5 | Along with Wales, England had intended their captain to wear one, emblazoned with the words, |
| 1:29.3 | One Love, and a multicoloured design that was the gentlest of nods towards Qatar's repressive treatment of homosexuality. |
| 1:33.3 | Yet just hours before kickoff, the team bosses reversed that decision after FIFA said |
| 1:39.3 | anyone wearing that unsanctioned strip of cloth would receive a yellow card. Many gay fans had chosen to avoid |
| 1:47.1 | visiting Qatar. They looked instead to the players to make some sort of protest. That is hugely |
| 1:53.6 | encouraging to see the progress that has been made, but yeah, absolutely it felt like a real kick in |
| 1:58.1 | the teeth. That open goal missed by some margin. |
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