THE INHUMAN LEAGUE

As someone with no vested interest in this season’s Champions League there was a fixture that caught my eye; Manchester City v PSG. So I thought I’d find out a bit more about them. 

MANCHESTER CITY:majority owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group whose investment, according to Human Rights Watch,is intended to launder the image of the repressive authoritarian regime in Abu Dhabi and construct a public relations image of a progressive, dynamic Gulf state, which deflects attention from what is really going on in the country.

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PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN : Owned by Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, through state-run shareholding organization Qatar Sports Investments (QSI). Significant human rights issues in Qatar include restrictions on free expression, including criminalization of libel; restrictions on peaceful assembly and freedom of association, including prohibitions on political parties and labor unions; restrictions on migrant workers’ freedom of movement; limits on the ability of citizens to choose their government in free and fair elections; lack of investigation of and accountability for violence against women; criminalization of consensual same-sex sexual conduct; and reports of forced labor.

I wonder if Clive Tyledsley will mention any of this in his bombastic commentary?