In reality this is a non-story, because everyone knows you can’t enter a stadium with an imitation sword in Qatar, any more than you can here!
But evidence suggests it was deliberately staged by a newspaper, to give themselves a headline and stir up their impressionable readers.
See how there are no names tied to the story, only claims, allegations, and apparently posts on social media. In other words, the journalist himself probably posted some rubbish somewhere, then reported his own comments for the article, and invented comments from other fans.
It’s nothing new. Pre-Brexit, the Mail did similar things with complete fictions about the EU. And, they do it now, inventing stories about likely to anger their readers – about ‘woke’ stuff, Markle, migrants, striking teachers, doctors….
British media at their very worst. They should carry a health warning.
