the Guardian—Players criticise the BBC for questioning their integrity and naming individuals without consentFemale football players who fled Afghanistan after Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021 are criticising a recent BBC article which has labelled some of those evacuated as “false footballers”.The investigation by BBC Newsnight said some of the descriptions of UK visa applicants as national players or members of a regional team “appear to be false”. The report said there is resentment among “genuine...
BBC attacked for calling female Afghan footballers who fled Taliban ‘false’. Outcry over Newsnight report which claimed some evacuees who applied to enter the UK did not play for the teams they named