It's not yours and again that's your choice.
Are you happy with that stand point or do you simply not care about those practices as long as we win a few more trophies?
This is the thing. If Qatar weren't a truly abhorrent regime I would be perfectly fine with either bid and I'd probably be in favour of Qatar over Jim.
But they aren't. They are appalling. Look at the world cup debacle. Some of those poor migrants are still fresh in the ground no doubt from a world cup they bribed their way to host.
I just can't ever be happy with that regime using our name. Not now not ever.
If Qatar win this with an eleventh hour bid I won't turn my back on this club but I will be incredibly disappointed and sad.
I don't think a lot.of the pro Qatar fans on here have even thought through what it actually will be like. All they can think about is Mbappe Neymar and co.
Well I actually outlined my point earlier, I think closer cultural ties to the west, won't lead to instant improvements, but over the next one or two generations is likely to lead to a massively more progressive country, these countries can't rely on oil and gas forever and want to attract tourism and investment from the west, which will be predicated on a society that aligns more with ours. But it ha sa very religious population, even if the rulers allowed lgbt rights, the population wouldn't accept it, turning them into international pariah is more likely to make them more insular and less progressive, telling them feck off until you agree with us (but we'll keep buying your oil and gas) will leave them in a regressive state. Having closer cultural ties withthe west probably won't change much for the older generations but for younger people and future generations it's likely to be better
It's only abiut 70 or 80 years ago that we would chemically castrate people for being gay, a lot of progress can be made within a couple of generations. So i don't feel morally it's an issue for them to own us, or Saudi Arabia with Newcastle or Abu Dhabi with City.
You might scoff at this claim, but as Saudi Arabia has looked to attract western investment they've had to improve women's rights, a lot of this is linked with the closer cultural ties with the west, its not going to be an overnight change but it likely will happen, and things will get better for people in those countries. I don't think cutting ties with those countries will make things any better,
But all that's by the by, it still doesn't explain why your moral issue with Qatar has any impact on whether we'd be more successful in a sporting sense with them. Surely that's the point of your position, that you'd take us being less successful to avoid Qatar, in which case it seems weird to spend so much time pretending Jim will be better in a sporting sense, when rationally you must know that won't be the case