Saudi Arabian ambassador Prince Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud has confirmed that there’ll be “no alcohol at all” at the 2034 World Cup, and then smugly asked football fans “really, you can’t live without a drink?”

Here’s the footage from Prince Khalid’s appearance on LBC earlier:

‘We don’t want to change our culture for someone else.’

‘Really, you can’t live without a drink?’

The Saudi Arabian Ambassador confirms to @NickFerrariLBC that the entirety of the 2034 World Cup will be alcohol-free. pic.twitter.com/zRqK3U0MxE

— LBC (@LBC) February 12, 2025

Jeez, what a condescending little pr1ck. Oh, we can’t live without a drink? How about living without treating women like it’s the 1500s? How about living without committing war crimes every 5 minutes? How about living without bacon or halal food? The audacity of this man!

Now obviously Saudi Arabia is an alcohol-free country and we should all respect that side of their culture, but what about respecting football culture? What about being a good host and adapting to the hundreds of thousands of guests who will be visiting your country for the World Cup in 2034? Not because they want to experience Saudi Arabian culture, mind you. But rather to tolerate it because they love football so much.

Then again, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was supposed to be an alcohol-free World Cup and I’m pretty sure everyone still ended up getting drunk somehow. More importantly, there weren’t any reports of hooliganism or trouble throughout the entire World Cup. Maybe football fans can be trusted to have a drink and behave themselves after all? Especially in a country where you do not want to be arrested as a foreigner under any circumstances.

We’re also still nine years away from the 2034 World Cup so maybe there’s a chance things could change by then. As long as the Saudis get to line their pockets and promote their “dry country”, what’s the problem?

For the time Saudi Arabia’s first male robot appeared to inappropriately touch a female reporter, click HERE.