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Published 13:26 19 Oct 2022 BST
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However the pundit also defended Qatar and insisted that they receive more criticism than Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who are also heavily involved in football through their ownership of Newcastle United and Manchester City.
"We are talking about Man City like it's a golden ticket - they're owned by Abu Dhabi, who have massive issues with women's rights, worker's rights, LGBTQ rights... exactly the same, in fact worse, than Qatar," he added.
"Qatar have had Amnesty International and the International Labour Organisation all over them for the last 10 years because of the World Cup.
"Saudi Arabia have come into our country to own Newcastle and they've got terrible human rights issues over there - the journalist killed there a few years ago, for example - and people work for them in this country.
"We either decide that we collaborate with these countries, and try and impact change through football - which is what I think we should always do - or we say we're never going to let them play sport, we're never going to have a World Cup there, we're never going to allow them to compete against us because they don't have what would be as progressive rights as they should have.
"There's no-one that I think wants workers' rights to be better than me, there's no-one who wants women's rights, equality or diversity more than me, I absolutely believe in it."
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