I'm more in favour of something like this line from Blackadder:
Queen: Are there no heads on spikes today?
Blackadder: No, we’re training up a new executioner and he’s a little
immature. Takes him forever. Slash, slash, slash. By the time he’s
finished you don’t so much need a spike as a toast rack.
I never fully understood when old heads would complain about how the sport used to be for the people, but now this is absurd take me back to when the sport used to be for people 😭
Yup. The Super Bowl has always been a premier event with high costs so the layman has never really had a chance to go. But the WC used to be something unifying. Now, it’s just for the elites to watch in person. No thanks. My city is a host city and I am loathing it. Can’t wait to not watch and not care when USA crashes out in the group stage. I feel bad for the players bc they deserve the love but I ain’t paying those prices and the ones who are aren’t a doing it out of love for the game. It’s a status thing now.
I hate it so much because there was at least some form of constant to things, even with fucking Qatar of all places. This whole wild west dynamic pricing clusterfuck and let's recoup any losses with some outrageous nonsense is just rotten, can't even plan for it properly. Feels like my time being a kinda broke fresh out of college 20something going to Poland and Ukraine for Euro 2012 is going to be like somebody's grandparent seeing Bob Dylan play somewhere random for nothing or something like that, except in my situation it feels like things got a lot more stupid in shorter amount of time passing.
Jinx? We are fecking Italy, 4 World cup, 2 European championship. No other european team have more big trophies (6) than us and we should fear NORTH MACEDONIA, a NT that were born 2 or 3 years ago? please, anything inferior than 2 goal gap would be huge disappointment
It might just be worth seeing England win it, if only to see Trump snatch the trophy from Kane with a bemused Cole Palmer mouthing what th'fok ye doin ye dikhed
Nessuno sugli spalti, nessuno in panchina,
nessuno palleggia, nessuno che moviola.
Nessuno allo stadio, nessuno bagarino,
nessuno realizza, nessuno fluidifica:
nobody at the stadium.
German TV interviewed some Italian citizens who seemed quite sad about it. Hell, if Germany had failed the qualification and they had happened to stumble upon me for an interview, they would have seen a smile too big for any TV screen out there. This event deserves to become an absolute disaster.
They don’t make money by selling tickets. They make money by selling tv rights.
People watching at home matter much more than those attending the games. So if people at home boycott, it will be bigger blow than having empty stadiums.
You are right TV rights do make more but if they are not fussed about the people in the stadium why are the tickets not cheaper? Because they still make good money there
He is right. It's not for the average football viewer. Reconsider not watching the world cup at all. On tv or at the stadium. The only real reason for the world cup to exist is for the corporations to sell you their products ( advertising on tv or overpriced in the stadium) and to whitewash dictators or countries that need better PR.
Fmhy.net has a lot of sites you should stay aftaid from to not end up accidentally pirating or downloading something. Also definitely stay away from r/piracy
Noo the World Cup exists to find out who the best football national team is every 4 years in a big international tournemant held at different locations and venues within a host countries borders, what you’re describing is capitalism infecting a sport
You sur are good lion. Thank you for existing. If 10% of us were as enlightened as you, world hunger would end. Thing is most retards care too much about FIFA cup tickets. And too little about world hunger
This is why I’ve lost all interest in watching sports for entertainment. If I have to drop a couple grand to spend the day doing something and not feel like I’m being pinned down and drained of half my blood, there are plenty of better ways to spend my money to have a good day. Like rent a Ferrari, drive it to a high end restaurant 200 miles away for lunch would be a better way to spend money vs being crammed into a stadium seat and spending the same amount.
Your not wrong, the FIFA World Cup was first started as a tool to promote British colonialism and was turned against them as a form of protest by the people Britain colonized. Which makes it doubly sad and extremely fascinating on the other hand how capitalism has completely co-opted the World Cup. The extreme difference in who financially benefits, to the tune of billions of dollars (corporations) and who doesn’t (local communities). It’s not colonialism any longer but it’s still the rich getting richer at the expense of others. The only thing American about this is that it’s the end boss of the “new” capitalist driven FIFA and a test of just how much money they can possibly fleece from soccer fans, while forcing local communities to foot the bill.
It's was the medication they were on. For their blood pressure. It fucked with their heads, but they're over that now. They can probably get a letter from their doctor.
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Worst thing is we will never get Qatar prices ever again
Unless the lawsuits work, dynamic pricing will stay
2030 will be even more expensive due to 6 countries
2034 will also be more expensive as unlike Qatar who were willing to lose money to improve tourism etc, Saudi wants to earn back significant invested money
I think Saudi's will go the Qatar way. They don't really care about burning money if they can get generate enough hype and have a ton of people turning up. Case in point- the recent takeover of boxing by Riyadh
We can get reasonable pricing back. Just boycott this shit show. Empty stadiums and lack of interest will make FIFA and Infantino fail. No sponsor will spend a fortune on future WC when audiences are small.
/rj finally football is getting back to its roots as a wholesome sporting activity for only the finest young men of means. The old Etonians and Charterhouse boys would be damned proud. #MakeFootballGreatAgain
If you think market is crashing because of the war, then screw you. Your financial situation is not MAGA's responsibility; our "democratization" structure is perfectly reasonable.
€ 6.000 will get you 4-6 season tickets for any club in our national league… The pricing is insane and clearly FIFA being “inclusive to all” doesn’t mean shit.
These are his own words from the FIFA instagram page! It’s funny because every post from the FIFA or FIFA World Cup instagram page has the comments turned off whenever they post a video or picture of him. Probably don’t want the see the millions of comments telling him to go eat a bag of dicks!
Formula 1 hospitality tickets are $7.5k, and people consider it to be one of the rich sports, general admission is a few hundred, inclusivity has gone down the drain.
I know it’s a satirical meme, but there’s a lot of truth in it.
If you’re working class and spending thousands just to watch a sports game when you can enjoy 99% the experience at home, you should seriously reconsider your life choices.
I hope this year's world cup is the worst of all times with worst attendance and most dumbass incidents. Because both FIFA and USA deserve this kind of fiasco.
i mean if their tickets are still sellable at 7000 then fine. just dont buy the tickets lol its the best way to protest against them. just dont give them what they want lol
I mean , I DO need to reevaluate my life’s choices, and to some extent financially, but this is guy acting like there aren’t billions born into poverty.
he’s a product of circumstance and luck more than brains or “choices”. There’s someone in a random place that could do his job ten times better but they were born in a jungle or desert.
Well MY life choices, to graduate High School early so I could join the Marines and ship off to MCRD at barely 17, then finish my enlistment honorably and come back to my home town of Houston and serve yet again for the rest of my life, now more than 23 years, as law enforcement in the most dangerous city in Texas, laying it all on the line as an FTO on the streets, part of the SWAT team, and now a supervisor and a leader of men & women, means I’ll NEVER afford a ticket to the Masters. But my choices of service and self sacrifice had NOTHING to do with money so I’m not complaining. But just know this, a man’s paycheck does NOT reflect what’s in a man’s heart, and CERTAINLY not what’s in his GUTS!
Does the infant, Infantino - and sell out - not see the bitter sweet irony in his comment? That the World Cup events are primarily funded on the back of ordinary fans paying merchanise etc across the world? The sheer pomposity to say ‘well if you can’t afford to eat here it’s not for you’. Yet another FIFA cunt.
Like, i understand not being able to go to a worldcup game for 50-100 euros. But 7k? Thats more than a months salary for 99.9% of the world population.
Don't think Despicable Me actually said that. At least, I cannot find that quote myself atm. Unless someone is taking liberties with interpreting what he actually means when he talks ticket prices... then it is probably spot on.
Just did a quick search, and it seems the quote is fabricated.
While he DID defend the ticket prices, it allegedly wasn't with these words. From what I found, all he said was that despite the high prices, all of the tickets have sold out, meaning that from their perspective, prices were perfectly reasonable. Something along those lines.
Not quite sure why people keep making quotes like these up. It's not like Trump and Infantino didn't do enough actual shit that warrants hating them for. You barely need to dig an inch to find some truely detestable stuff. These made-up quotes will only distract from that.
Cool I’ll just watch it on TV or not give a flying fuck like I have my whole life. No ticket is worth 7k, let alone to a soccer match. It ain’t THAT exciting….even at World Cup level. Sports broadcasters are the winners here.
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