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By: Toby Rushbrook

Toby Rushbrook — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:06:17 +0000

Toby Rushbrook Join the club. Except I guess most kiwis count as colonisers themselves.

By: Benjamin McKay

Benjamin McKay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:46:11 +0000

—well Allan – all of that is true and yet we still watch – what those of us who find the game problematic should do is either a) boycott – or b) get elected to FIFA and change things from the top down – mind you I don’t see Malaysia getting a soundly received vote at the top these days – maybe option c) Lobby hard – is a better bet. Yes the game politically may be a disgrace but it is one that fascinates us nonmeless. Just like I am fascinated by my students confirmed hatred and hilarity for something called a Malaysian team and their love for anything in the European League.

By: Allan Koay

Allan Koay — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:44:42 +0000

This whole “football as colonialism” idea is not new, and has been discussed many times before. the one big thing that none of the Gol? writers have managed to pinpoint and write about is how the Fifa World Cup itself is a giant colonial endeavour.
Sepp Blatter and gang go into a poor country like South Africa, basically pillage and ransack the country of its money and resources, make billions of dollars in profit, and then leave the country high and dry. do you know, because the stadiums have been gobbling up so much energy, the poorer areas of South Africa have been plunged into darkness? and then Fifa also changes the country’s laws, set up their own mini World Cup court, and convict whoever they presume to be eating into, or attempting to eat into, their share of the big pie, such as those two Dutch women who were arrested for wearing orange shirts because they were deemed to be illegally advertising for a rival brand of beer.

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