The Saudi Arabian soccer team has come under fire after failing to honour a minute’s silence for the victims of the London terror attack at a game against Australia.
And Sunrise host Sam Armytage has joined the chorus of voices condemning the behaviour.
“It’s bloody disgraceful. I’m so angry about this today and we’re thinking of the families of the two girls who were killed even more so,” Armytage said on Friday morning.
“I’m not going to be impartial about this, I’m furious about this.”
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'Not in their culture' is such a load. My friend who lives in Dubai says the minute silence is very common practice over there.
Plus the Saudi soccer players observed one minute silence before the match between FC Barcelona and Al-Ahli Saudi FC last year to honour the memory of the Brazilian team that was killed in the plane crash. So even if its not something they engage in often, they are obviously familiar with the concept.
It's like they just saw it as an opportunity to get extra time to warm up over the other team. And didn't really care how that looks. It's the same arrogance that saw them refuse to board a driven by a *gasp* woman when they were here in 2015 for the Asian Cup. It says so much.
Respect to those team members who broke rank and observed.
The minutes silence was to show respect to everyone who died or was injured in the attack. That includes different nationalities. If you are unable to stand quietly for 1 minute and suggest it's against your beliefs, that's just disappointing. Clearly they didn't benefit from the extra minute of warm up time!