Saudi Snub

[madbluboy]

Apparently a minutes silence for the victims of the London terror attack wasn't part of their culture.




Except it was last year when they honoured the memory of members of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense who were killed in a plane crash.

[DJC]

Disgraceful!

They shouldn't be allowed back into the country.

[madbluboy]

Disgraceful!

They shouldn't be allowed back into the country.

Yeah but then we would have to forfeit the game and the points to qualify for the World Cup.

Worst part was I bought their excuse this morning until it was exposed.

[cookie2]

What else can be expected from a feudal state that is one of the major sponsors of radical jihadis?

[Lods]

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.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Disgraceful!

They shouldn't be allowed back into the country.

x2...

[madbluboy]

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.

Their captain did up his shoe laces.

[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.

[Lods]

Their captain did up his shoe laces.

What did the others do?

The team spread out to various parts of the field, with captain Osama Hawsawi appearing to call for them to stand still.

But, once the period of silence commenced, Hawsawi was apparently the only Saudi player not standing still.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/football/...ailsignout

[mateinone]

In fact that might have been our bench I think.
So out of touch I don't know most of the Socceroos squad these days, but looks like Aussie symbol on jacket.