Guys, it's getting serious!

The soccer World Cup begins this Sunday in Qatar.

The Infantino Show.

The great cleansing.

It still sounds like a joke, but it's not.

So it's high time to answer the question: do we want to do this to ourselves?

Shall we have a look?

In our town there are a few scruples about playing this brazen FIFA game, for example at the university around the corner.

No public viewing this year in the Audimax.

You can afford it there.

You know what's appropriate, in terms of sports morals and in general.

But not far from our university there is also a football bar, a real beer tavern, and the landlord decided long ago: Of course we'll leave the TV on when they play football in Qatar, after all we're a sports bar and not the topics of the day, and we also broadcast them the games of the Munich Qatar Connection, i.e. FC Bayern, and that doesn’t bother anyone either, so what’s the problem?

Morale is at the back

Well, the problem is that when we sit in front of the television, we appreciate and support on a small scale what we reject on a large scale, from a moral point of view, as completely as it should be: major events in countries that are dealing with the Sports want to whitewash human rights violations.

sports washing.

So do we turn off our televisions for the Qataris during their World Cup?

Stupidly, they then ask us why, with so much attitude, we actually act like servants when it comes to gas deliveries from their country, why don't we turn off our own gas taps very quickly, because of morality, human rights and in general.

The answer is: Because then we'd rather turn the morale down a bit than the gas.

Because at the end of the day we will be following this World Cup clandestinely in the well-heated sports bar, optionally in the well-tempered living room, and if Füllkrug shoots us to the title, we wouldn't be completely averse to a small motorcade.

You can twist and turn it as you like, it remains complicated.

A dilemma.

Should we watch the Qatar World Cup in the cold?

Or in the warmth?

Or shall we boycott them in the warmth?

Or even give her the cold shoulder in the cold, morally doubly impeccable?

Hard decision.

If we look up Brecht, it is written: "First comes the eating, then comes the morals." But Brecht is no longer quite up to date with this.

It is no longer just food that comes before morality, but a long list of enormous importance.

The heating is on her, the sport, the football.

There is only one place on the substitutes' bench for morale.

She only likes to be substituted in for Sunday speeches.