Ladies & Gentlemen,
The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is less than 4 months away and SBS will be the EXCLUSIVE one-stop-shop for Australian football fans to watch all 64 games LIVE, FREE and in HD.
Enjoy!
Mod: If you are watching live, watch on your HD TV via channel 30. It's output is 1080i, instead of 720p via the SBS on demand app.
Tell me you've never watched a game without telling me you've never watched a game
I watched last nights ludicrous display. What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early? Arsenal always tries to walk it in!
"Kicker"
always funny when people ask "Ronaldo doin' pretty well, how many goals has he kicked this year?"
People shouldn’t be completely into these retarded sport practices, they simping for these unethical companies cause the don’t want to hurt their soccer friends feeling or too much pride for their country, forgetting the greedy ceos making them ass think the sports define everything
Does SBS have ads? If so, do they cut live coverage for them or just at half time?
I believe the ads would only be at half time, no ads during live play.
SBS are pretty good at it. During breaks you'll definitely have ads I think if there's a real long break in play they might have a break. But I've never missed any action with SBS unlike the commercial channels.
No ads during the game, just half time
Ads during a football game?
You must be thinking of AFL.
Not tried to watch the A-League lately?
That's not football 😂
@BTMoustachio: The adverts are often more entertaining than the games. I renew my membership every year, but you only get a couple of good games.
No but hey don’t have real HD. Its super compressed and pixelated.
FIFA does not allow broadcasters to cut to ads DURING the match itself, only at the half time break and before/after.
Then why even click this deal?
The title specifically starts as "Qatar World Cup."
@morediscount: I remember a time when 99% aussies called it soccer, what total sheeps right, the need to call it football to fit in, lose lose situation
Edit: scamball is more fitting
FIFA
Federation Internationale de Football Association
You're welcome
@PainToad: It doesn't matter at all that what some people call Football. Hell, call it Polysepalous lol, but it doesn't change the fact that the correct name is Football
Instead of showing off your illiteracy, I would suggest you to learn to use the correct name!
I will not reply to you anymore, I am very busy and important.
The Australian Soccer Association was formed in 1921.
In 1956, Australia became a FIFA member through the Australian Soccer Association.
In 1984, the National Soccer Youth League was founded.
In 1996, the first national women's soccer competition, the Women's National Soccer League was founded.
In the mid-1990s, Soccer Australia was the governing body for the sport.
There is a long history of it being called soccer. Why can't it be called that now?
@PainToad: https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/
It was officially changed from soccer to football around a decade back.
The clubs and state associations were renamed too.
It doesn't make sense calling it soccer, just because a handful of countries call it that.
As far as AFL, NRL or Rugby league, call it anything you want.
I am not fussed if you carry the ball in your hands and call it football. That is your prerogative.
@darkmattersunB6c0MV: I'm not fussed if you want to call your sport "football" when it's the only code where you can score a goal without exclusively using your foot.
"Head, or foot ball" just doesn't have the same ring to it does it…
Is that you Murdoch? Miffed that you didn't get exclusive right?
Must be nice for you to live such a sheltered life
Especially when Colliingwood beats Carlton and puts them out of the finals!
Do you ring the number on adverts offering guitar lessons to tell them that you don’t want guitar lessons? C’mon mate, get well soon.
Apparently showing sport on FTA is a deal nowadays.
You should post that the AFL grand final will be broadcast on Channel 7.
cool story bro
you enjoy that world cup of AFL
Great news, thanks for reporting it OP.
Now, if the Australian Govt would just recognise the AFL as a national treasure and require it on FTA, not locked behind a paywall!
If they won't step in to protect international cricket matches what can you expect
Read the anti siphoning laws, all test, one day and T20 cricket involving the Australian team is protected, and cable tv only get the rights when they are waived because FTA find it commercially unviable. FTA are also not allowed to put these sports on their digital platforms only, which is why channel 9 still shows the wallabies on FTA at the same time as ad free on Stan
I believe all sports should be fta but that’s not going to happen sadly. Blame Optus Foxtel and stan.
At least sbs stream will not lag, Optus was a disaster 4 years ago.
Why are you blaming companies who are willing to pay more than the FTA channels? The broadcaster money is what puts more money into the game and helps sport grow - FTA had such little interest in promoting anything other than the big 2 and then internationals - good examples are the likes of NBL and even Darts nowadays which wouldn't have even got a chance to grow to the levels they are if it was just FTA paying cents in the dollar because people feel they should automatically get the rights.
The broadcaster money is what puts more money into the game and helps sport grow
Please. Don't be naive. We're talking about the corrupt fat cats at FIFA here…
@brotherfranciz: Please. Read what you’re commenting on.
They said “I believe all sports should be FTA”
Which I replied to and specifically mentioned helping smaller sports grow.
@Randolph Duke: How is that relevant for one of the biggest sporting events in the calendar? I genuinely don’t understand what they’ve clarified.
A world cup in Qatar? Just how much did they bribe those FIFA officials?
About the same amount as what Aus paid to host 2000 olympics
Oh Dr T. That's a bit much
Didn’t Australia do the same in their failed World cup bid?
Yep, jewellery for the wives of voters, also randomly paid for the U20 Trinidad & Tobago team to go to a tournament. Just coincidental that's where Warner who was their main bidder in at FIFA looked after of course.
Doesn't take away from the fact that the Qatari bid was rife with corruption and that FIFA is probably one of the most corrupt organisations in the world - but people like to gloss over that Australia was also willing to play the game, we just didn't have the funds to compete with the big boys
I read something recently about how that was technically still allowed at the time.
Should be double … don't forget the inflation :)
Will SBS do a documentary about labor rights?
And how racist Qatar is to its imported workers?
Maybe during the halftime…
Perhaps the can get the slave labor to perform during the half time show.
I remember Craig Foster pointing out Russias human rights record and getting put on ice.
If you keep politics out of sport,
then flags should not be seen anywhere in sport.
That’s nationalism
difficult to keep politics out of sport when your stadiums are built on the dead body of slaves…
Ban the Pyramids! LOL
@tharlow: If the Egyptian oligarchy that built the pyramids 4,500 years ago were still alive and hosting the world cup with slaves, then yes.
@tharlow: that's literally the opposite of what i just said. Are you daft?
actually, don't answer that, it's clear.
@[Deactivated]: How about returning artifects stolen/looted during colonial era to where they belong first?
So you support the slave labour they used to build the stadiums.?
@unhuman: It's literally our business that keeps their ventures going. By supporting this or not supporting this, we are directly involved in the business that is keeping this afloat. If you are against businesses that kill migrant workers, then it's worth not tuning in.
Not that I support Qatar but we should look at past too and be critical about oneself also
Slavery in Australia has existed in various forms from colonisation in 1788 to the present day. European settlement relied heavily on convicts, sent to Australia as punishment for crimes and forced into labour and often leased to private individuals. Many Aboriginal Australians were also forced into various forms of slavery and unfree labour from colonisation. Some Indigenous Australians performed unpaid labour until the 1970s.
@Ehty: it's not one or the other. You can be critical of both things, just like you can be critical of foreign governments, and the one in the country you live in. That's the whole point of free speech. (profanity) Qatar, (profanity) the Australians that made use of slave labour.
@Ehty: you know you are comparing a time when the only transport was sailing ship which were prone to sink to now, when we have massive passenger jets and machinery and toilets and showers, and sewerage pipes and roads and cars, and furnishings, like mattresses and glass windows could be considered silly.
Perhaps we needed those times to get to a point in time (ie. Not starving to death, washing and going to the toilet in a house, etc) where we considered those previous practices barbaric.
Attitudes can change - in 1901 seals were killed for food, now we have teams of people, living off donations, saving them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Fv2iysRGo
Now comparing the actions of Qatar - a developed 1st world country being one of the highest GDP per capita now, compared to the UK back in 1901 is ridiculous.
unpaid labour until the 1970s.
Absolutely unacceptable and those people deserve compensation, at the very (very) least.
And that is why we have Reparations plans and those who don't offer plans or enough money (WA) are getting taken to Court.
(@Jamesx) We as a society recognise the unfairness of it and are trying to fix it on a system level for something that happened 50 years ago (which is Not the present day). Slavery is a recognised crime with severe penalties and every time we find a different version of it (eg. sexual servitude, illegal marriages) we add more charges and heavier sentences.
Unfortunately we cannot stop every single incident - because humans are humans - but If the system attempts to expose it and punish people in a serious way for it, that is literally the best we can do.
Saying the whole of Australia has to take responsibility for slavery because an Indian immigrant imports someone from their own home country (a tad ironic) and then refuses to pay them is simply not right. We have 'fixed' this injustice by, in this example: making those people pay her backdated wages and then they received two years jail and massive fines. And when they get out of Jail they will be deported.
When slavery is found the System reacts and punishes those who defy the law.
Does Australia have slavery - No.
Does Australia have individual cases of slavery - yes and that is a crime with server punishments (arrest, jail, fines, deportations, civil actions/penalties, etc).
Qatar has the sense (just look at the official (Governmental) behaviour of developed countries) and the money to fix something that is happening now.
And it seems they are not.
And that is the problem.
@Other: Given that I have lived in both countries, I had made this comment. The normal Qatari guys are of same opinion as yours that it shouldn't be allowed. However, its the employers who exploit the workers. And also the agents who promise something else when the workers are promised jobs.
The amount of racism in Qatar is almost equivalent to current in Australia i.e minimal. However it always in the society that rich feel more privileged than the ones below them.
Since the economic gap is huge , it gives a picture of slavery, these laborer's are not kidnapped from their homes and made to work , its just they are contract bound and poor who need money which is in Qatar.
Racism is in all societies its just with non western countries we speak about it openly.
@Ehty: I think if the employer takes away passports, and threatening them with beatings then its essentially enslaving them.
Obviously not all employers are doing this in Qatar, but the fact there are many employment incidents being reported means it is happening.
My guess is that most people on Ozbargain feel that the Qatar Government is not do enough to fix the problem (but perhaps not because you have +3 upvotes and I have -1 downvote - so who knows!)
If there is no enforcement, then criminals can act with impunity.
There is serious enforcement in Australia - with slavery being both a Commonwealth and a State crime (meaning the AFP and State (NSW) police can investigate and press charges. We also have a slavery Commissioner
We even have page from the AFP: https://www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/crime-types/human-traffick…
Qatar used to use the Kafala system - which was banned, and then the ban was basically ignored by, well, everyone:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/12/18/qa-migrant-worker-abuses…
There are many abuses:
Qatar fails to provide data on workers who die on the job, calling over 50% of all employment related deaths 'natural' - compare this to Australia, where business are investigated by 1) work safety body; 2) the Police; and 3) the Corner.
The taking of Passport still occurs.
The are penalties for workers absconding, when they could be trying to escape abuse
Just recently worker protested in 42C heat because they hadn't been paid for months - the Qatar Government then promised it would pay the workers. Was this just to avoid embarrassment before the games?
Look if it wasn't happening - nobody would say anything - When Australia won the Olympics there weren't many Organisations demanding Australia reform its Slavery/Employment laws/system….
Look if the Government in Qatar wanted it to stop - they could - they could start prosecuting employers, they could regulate agents (and ban the ones who do wrong) but in reality they are driven by their own interests, which includes hard working, cheap labour.
Say what you want, but where there is smoke, 99% of the time there is fire. And there is a big fire in Qatar.
Most of OECD countries had and still have slavery until today, why didn't we hear it often but pointing fingers to the "bad countries" instead?
@Jamesx: you hear about it all the time. The bad countries are "bad" countries because the amount of slavery is comparatively huge compared to may OECD countries. People are still critical about both, if you don't give a shit you'll ignore it, or won't notice it until it affects something you like (like football)
Username fits
I wish it was just about sport but how can we celebrate the game when the construction of stadiums in Qatar contributed to the death of 6500 migrant workers. That's crazy and cannot be ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r…
Five minutes after we get knocked out.
the majority of the world is just an echo chamber of opinion, and its that just opinion not fact. i lived & grew up in qatar & im south asian exactly the demographic of people who are labour workers in qatar. i can tell you from fist hand experience that although there are some things wrong with qatar as there are with all countries to insinuate slave labour as if there is not cooperation from the side of the labourers and their countries is laughable
I want that same energy in the next world cup, guess who's hosting it?
Maybe they'll take a knee
Woah it's back to SBS, thank god 🙏 should of been our world cup though theiving ducks!
tharlow on 23/08/2022 - 04:11 Comment score below threshold.
