To the Editor,
This week sees an "International Break" for football leagues around the world. Footballers playing in leagues all over the world will traverse the globe in order to link up with their international team mates to play "friendlies" and World Cup qualifiers against other international teams.
Can someone please explain how it is possible to be able to travel freely from country to country to kick a spherical bit of leather around for the amusement or otherwise of non-existent spectators when at the same time it is apparently impossible for up to 400,000 seafarers to be repatriated to their homes and families, having long since finished contracts of employment and with no end to their forced labour in...