Vladimir Putin will not care about boycotts, sanctions and moving the Champions League final away from Russia amid his Ukraine war

A cannonball fired from a Russian tank and hit back with a boycott of a football venue looks like what it eventually became, a hopeless gesture.

Despots of Vladimir Putin Kindness does not equate to beaten feet, the history of failed boycotts in sports tells us time and time again.

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“It’s all you have” is a sarcastic sarcasm from one boxer who simply sums up Putin’s attitude toward Western efforts to convince him to stop invading Ukraine.

It will definitely take more work than a threat to take the Champions League final away from St Petersburg, which Uefa ultimately did.

Uefa’s pride and the gullibility of the West made them think that a package of financial threats could only shake the thug Putin and his henchmen.

It reminds me of Dad’s Army theme “Who do you think you’re kidding, Mr. Hitler?”

For Hitler, read Putin.

We already know that Russia is a rogue country – one that they feel they can only answer for themselves.

In Britain, the murder of their defectors shows us all about the immorality of the Moscow leadership.

More appropriately, the sports world is all too aware of the shocking illegal drug use that has been encouraged by the Russian state to try to increase the total number of medals.

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It went to the point of drilling a hole in the toilet wall so that the urine sample could be swapped out.

The International Olympic Committee banned all official Russian teams and then, almost beyond belief, allowed them to compete, calling them the Russian Olympic Committee but without the national flag or badge.

It’s the kind of compromise Putin knows he can count on.

He used corruption to host the 2018 World Cup in an embarrassing double deal with Fifa, the team that brought this year’s competition to Qatar, which itself appears to have dodged any boycott campaign. any.

The reasons included the deaths of hundreds of stadium construction workers, the summer desert climate could not have been better as well as bribery and corruption of the committee that voted for it.

Football boycotts have a mixed history.

Fans shunned over protests of all kinds but it took a four-year absence from Bloomfield Road for Blackpool supporters to remove themselves from the Oyston family who brought the club to its knees.

What we do know about boycotts is the futility of firing at a target that is out of its range.

One was probably successful. The League and FA clubs declined to involve social media for four days in protest of racist and abusive content. I have doubts, though.

So should sports boycotters give up and keep their ears glued to the highway?

Africans are not so drastic.

There were 14 countries that refused to attempt to qualify for the 1966 World Cup final because they considered the allocation of half the places (it would take too long to justify a qualifying spot as unfair.

That is definitely it. But that is all that is lost in another folk tale.

What we do know about boycotts is the futility of firing at a target that is out of its range.

A fight that was once started by a football match (in El Salvador v Honduras since you asked), but will never be decided by one person – regardless of Celtic and Rangers riot watchers what to think.

St Petersburg’s shots never had a chance to score. But I do imagine Putin initially talking to a row of Commie effigies sitting in splendid splendor in the Kremlin, scratching his head and saying, “What do we have to do with the national cup final, comrades? lice? They are playing it dirty”.

No, he’s a dirty player. Very dirty indeed.

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