UAE’s Gargash to Qatar: Sports channels must not carry political agendas

Photo showing UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash. (Reuters)

ABU DHABI: UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Friday that sport is a win or lose business in reference to the clash with Qatar over beIN distribution rights.
Gargash wrote on his Twitter account that “sport is all about winning and loosing and only those perplexed politicize the game.”

Gargash added in a another tweet that his country will be taking all legal measures to hold to account beIN due to its maltreatment of Saudi Arabia, its national team, its sports community and officials and for its unacceptable mixing of politics with sport.