The television personality insisted that countries should not be permitted to use sporting events as an excuse to “cleanse” their unsavoury reputations.
“There should be basic requirements before you are entitled to [host] them, and that’s not just about LGBTQ,” he told The Mail on Sunday.
“It’s about the 6,500 workers who died, it’s about the fact that Beckham’s daughter Harper would not be able to continue with her education [if she was Qatari] without the permission of a male relative.”
Insisting we “know from history” that countries do not improve or change their attitudes after staging such events, he then gave the examples of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Russia hosting the last World Cup.
source: express.co.uk