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Stuff the World Cup

Lord Potts said:
Ever since 1978 I have been of the opinion that sadly the World Cup is nothing but a money making racket . I have seen nothing in the last 48 years that to convince me otherwise in fact the goings on of FIFA has confirmed it.

I doubt that I will take much interest in the competition unless Trump gets involved and does something terribly amusing that makes him look an even greater fool than he already is. I presume that he will have to award the trophy to the winners so that's going to have great potential to turn out to be some sort of a public relations disaster.
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Donald Trump in a public relations disaster? Surely not!
 

I don’t understand something,
the New York transport company putting the fares up and blaming FIFA for not subsidising the fans’ fares??
Is it because it will cost them to put extra trains on?
Not wanting to penalise normal passengers is another one, how do they differentiate who is who. Surely everyone will pay the same fare?
Extra customers = extra profit, is that not enough?
Or are they just trying to get a slice of the big pie from FIFA?
 
I'm looking forward to this world cup for the first time in ages.

My criticism recently is that I know all of the players, but now that FIFA have decided to let half of all the teams in the world into the finals, there's a great chance to see some players I've never seen before.

Maybe a couple of real gems from some tiny countries will be unearthed. I don't think that's happened since the emergence of social media.
 
Mate of mine from California messaged me yesterday to say , they have announced that buses between downtown areas and the match stadiums will be priced at $100 to $150 pp. It’s a massive fan rip off the whole thing.
 
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Abolish international football. Or at least start again and abolish FIFA.
Ricci's Special Kebabs said:
I love the World cup, but this one is completely off my radar.
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I can't stand it now tbh. Will be hard to avoid though. Watched about 4 or 5 games of Qatar one from memory. There was a time I used to watch nearly all of them.
 
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ontap said:
Mate of mine from California messaged me yesterday to say , they have announced that buses between downtown areas and the match stadiums will be priced at $100 to $150 pp. It’s a massive fan rip off the whole thing.
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Comeback_Kenwyne said:
You can set your watch by this craic.

As traditional as a meta-tarsal scare and 20 minutes of England passing it around their back four against some CONCACAF thugs.

Of course the World Cup is flawed. But I love it and there'll be a fair few on this thread claiming they won't watch who definitely do watch it.
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Im one of them as im git fickle.
 
ChicagoCat said:
Absolute disgrace

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Is that the normally $9 tickets hiked to $130?
Wearson said:
I don’t understand something,
the New York transport company putting the fares up and blaming FIFA for not subsidising the fans’ fares??
Is it because it will cost them to put extra trains on?
Not wanting to penalise normal passengers is another one, how do they differentiate who is who. Surely everyone will pay the same fare?
Extra customers = extra profit, is that not enough?
Or are they just trying to get a slice of the big pie from FIFA?
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It's the American capitalist dream and is also what has destroyed their economy
 
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Wearson said:
I don’t understand something,
the New York transport company putting the fares up and blaming FIFA for not subsidising the fans’ fares??
Is it because it will cost them to put extra trains on?
Not wanting to penalise normal passengers is another one, how do they differentiate who is who. Surely everyone will pay the same fare?
Extra customers = extra profit, is that not enough?
Or are they just trying to get a slice of the big pie from FIFA?
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I have read the reports a couple of times. I don't think it's very clear.

Presumably the argument is that there is a lot of additional cost to the transport companies in moving these 70/80000 crowds from.city centres to out of town locations.

Very peaky only in one direction at either end of game time. Additional operations, not just more people on existing services. And for every additional service full in one direction, it's presumably empty in the other.

FIFA are not paying any of those costs or providing any other means by which these people can move.

The local taxpayers aren't going to pay for it.

The tournament is generating huge revenues.

The headline grabbing fares are presumably protest tactics, in an effort to get FIFA to underwrite it.

If those crowds did pay those fares then wahey. But at normal fares, they're losing money.

I guess.
 
Waverley said:
I have read the reports a couple of times. I don't think it's very clear.

Presumably the argument is that there is a lot of additional cost to the transport companies in moving these 70/80000 crowds from.city centres to out of town locations.

Very peaky only in one direction at either end of game time. Additional operations, not just more people on existing services. And for every additional service full in one direction, it's presumably empty in the other.

FIFA are not paying any of those costs or providing any other means by which these people can move.

The local taxpayers aren't going to pay for it.

The tournament is generating huge revenues.

The headline grabbing fares are presumably protest tactics, in an effort to get FIFA to underwrite it.

If those crowds did pay those fares then wahey. But at normal fares, they're losing money.

I guess.
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Thanks, yes that makes sense.
 
Really ripping tourists off here. They have raised the cost of visiting the 15 most popular national Parks for non residents to 100 dollars
 
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