aw shucks, too bad.
ah, the NY and NJ AG’s are subpoenaing FIFA over ticket prices for the NY game/s. -thumbs up-
womp womp
Ow no, anyway.
My heart bleeds purple peanut butter…
I actually live near one of the sites. Even a year ago or whenever the tickets and matchups were announced, it seemed all the tickets were unobtainium. Saw insane prices for random matchups.
I would’ve liked to participate in the spectacle but I didn’t want to spend thousands for me and a friend to go see Eritrea v. New Guinea or some such other prelim matchup I had no interest in.
So then I got to thinking, how many people (genuine fans) from some of these countries are actually able to travel to North America paying peak travel and accommodation costs in addition to the match ticket cost? It must be the 1% of the 1% of many fanbases.
In 2022, in Qatars application, they did so with a maximum ticket price of $1500. Which quickly became a $5000 ticket after they had secured the event.
And that was already at the time the most expensive tickets to a world cup game, ever.
Though i cannot say i have much hope for the insainely corrupt organisation that is FIFA. Not to mention how much they stink of shit from all the ass licking of Trump.
It must be the 1% of the 1% of many fanbases.
Whenever Ireland are in a world cup, people start saving from the qualifiers so the rich are definitely there but it’s die hard footie fans that make up the bulk traveling.
It’s hard to overestimate just how much some people love the beautiful game. I remember the 2002 world cup which was in Korea / Japan and myself and my mates were getting up at unholy hours to watch all while murdering beers and screaming at the TV and I’m not even that into football.
No one can fucking afford to buy anything.
These companies that Mostly/only provide extraneous and unessential goods and services are about to start finding out.
“We weren’t able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!”
I really wish people would see past the nanometer thick veneer of shiny that FIFA and every big team puts on, hiding their extreme corruption and bad habit coverups.
Football (suck it, USA) has so much money being thrown at it from all sides that it’s no wonder it has some of the worst institutions running the show. Yet a LOT of people will still go out of their way to “support” the team, despite being too fucking poor for said team’s own tastes.
Football (suck it, USA)
Not gonna include Australia or Canada or Japan in sucking it?
Ireland has Gaelic football too so you have to figure out from context which football is being referred to.
We even play against the Aussies at a mix of the two football types occasionally which is called international rules.
Their lads are fucking massive as they play it professionally while Gaelic football is strictly amateur (all the money gets pumped back into local clubs which generally end up being very nice as a result).
That sounds awesome. More countries should mash up their sports and compete against each other. I’m thinking cricket + Turkish oil wrestling.
Turkish Oil wrestling + any sport …except pole vault.
Does Japan use the term Soccer?
Well they don’t have the English r sound but they say sakkaa.
Coulda been fubooru, but alas, it was not meant to be.
Can’t get blood from a stone.
Personally, I boycott…
Same… 2nd one in a row.
When I was younger, the world Cup marked milestones in my life, I loved the atmosphere and excitement it brought every four years…
But as I grew older and wiser, I’m fucking done with that clownshow. Germany was great,but fuck eEverything since then (Russia, Qatar, and now canmexusa)
I could give two shits about the sport most of the time but the big tournaments are always tons of fun to go watch at a bar or at someone’s house. I’d never pay to go to one in person but I’m only just keeping up with news of this years because
A) it will affect my ability to quickly move around my city/state B) schadenfreude C) I need to avoid the song Jellyroll wrote for it at all cost.
I’m not sure what’s funnier, the whining of these self-entitled business associations, the corruption exacted by FIFA, or the fact that they spent so much time fighting over who gets to shake down football fans that the fans just got up and left.
They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
They are avoiding the US, try to keep up.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
And football fans love to be shakem down, dangle some new shirts or an “official ball” in front and they bite. Real accomplishment by fifa
The fans left encouraged by ICE arresting and deporting anyone they can find.
And $15k visa bonds to enter the country didn’t help with traveling arrangements.
Yep, it has all been well managed. May be Demented Don is happy with his Peace Prize though a project management prize for this schemozzle is unlikely.
From his perspective, this is a win. A successful world cup would force Americans, at least temporarily, to think about the world as more than just them.
This keeps them isolated and ignorant.
The frog in the well… Votes for oligarchs.
This cup is going to be such a fucking disaster and I love it.
Honestly, same.
Could have been a great event, especially here in KC where we’ve had events with a million-plus people go off with less than ten arrests multiple times in recent memory.
But the billionaires, the fascists, and the bureaucrats have ruined it like they do with every fucking thing. I hope it fails spectacularly.
Yup.
Zero interest in sports but looking forward to YouTube autopsies of this clusterfuck of a trainwreck.
I have no interest but it’d be hilarious if we (Canada) and Mexico can turn a profit on the thing while the US is passed over like the fly-over nation it so wants to be
Oh PLEASE I would love to see that. It makes me sad that this regime has got me cheering for the country to fail quicker so the cult will wake up so we can actually have some change.
When we fail, they’ll blame the left for not giving right wing shit “a try”.
if scalpers are desperate to offload thier excessive amount of tickets for lower price, its a GOOD sign.
This is the bigger problem. FIFA still got their money because scalpers bought the tickets. They don’t care about hotels or scalpers as their bottom line still got padded.
But is it first order scalpers or secondary? It would be just as hilarious to see Ticketmaster or whatever company stuck with the bill.
If it ends up being bad enough to kill FIFA, I’ll throw a fucking party about it.
Dude I hate football because it’s corrupt and most players just act like children, but It’s the first time our national team (Jordan) reaches it and with a promising lineup too :(
Dont let the corrupt professional football stop you from enjoying an extremely fun and cheap sport!
Cry me a river. Fuck FIFA. And I don’t really feel sorry for any officials/businesspeople who thought it’s a good idea to endorse this.
That violin is much too big.
Such a shame the creator of that hilarious picture doesn’t know where the bow goes playing violin
False. The tardigrade is clearly practicing their sub ponticello technique. A sound I think clearly would fit here.
Tardigrade doing their best!
Well, people presumably don’t want to be arbitrarily arrested and dragged off to a concentration camp … or they just can’t stand fascists. Both are good reasons to boycott this criminal state. It’s about time, anyway, since FIFA is a plague too.
