Saudi Snub

[mateinone]

Just to clarify...from the video I've just watched they all seem to be standing still (there is one bit of movement) just not arms linked,
They're just spread out.

I thought the same thing when I watched the video, in fact I thought they showed the Saudi benched locked shoulder to shoulder in silence as well.

I would like to know for sure if this is the case or if Australia is jumping the gun here.

If they have not honored the moment of silence it is extremely disrespectful, but they don't have an obligation either (don't jump the gun here..  I do find it disgusting, bad sportsmanship etc) to acknowledge that minute, in the same way that teams can turn their back on the Haka or that James McClean (Irish footballer) refuses to wear a poppy on his football shirt on Remembrance Day or turned away from the Cross of St George when "God Save The Queen" was played at the start of a match, which seen even MPs calling for him to be kicked out of English Football.
Football nations who sign up to FIFA cannot allow politics to interfere with football or they get banned from FIFA. So IF Australian politicians did kick Saudi out... Australia would receive a ban from FIFA.

I am disgusted on a personal level if they have not shown respect, I would absolutely hate for Australia to go to Saudi or any other country and not respect a tragedy to their citizens or in fact just not respect their culture at all, but... you can't kick a group of players out of the country for not respecting what is important. You can admonish, you can lose all respect for them, but calls to have them kicked out are ridiculous.

Anyway I hope it is wrong, I hope that people are jumping up all over the place with wrong information, from the angles I seen that is possible, but then perhaps I am just being delusional because I don't want to believe that 11 international sportsmen would be as insensitive as that.