Well done FIFA

[tunstallhill]

Due to reading this thread I thought I'd take a look at pricing for Haiti vs Scotland . £369 for the very cheapest seat. The most expensive, which was corporate seating...£74k. Yes that's £74,000!!! for 1 ticket.

I decided to look in Mexico and found Sweden vs Tunisia playing in Monterry. Cheapest ticket...£256. In a city where the average monthly salary is sub £1500.

Now considering flights too are about £700 to Boston and hotels from £200 a night, even if I flew on Friday and came straight back on Sunday after the game it would be around £2k MINIMUM to go to one game once you factor in food, transport to the game, beer, travel to Heathrow etc. How are normal fans supposed to afford that? I spent 10days in Germany for WC 2006 and didn't spend anywhere near that, total. And who realistically would want to go and then come straight back with the travel and jet lag involved?

Flights to Monterry were even more expensive but hotels were a bit cheaper and I'd imagine the living costs would be lower than USA.

This entire WC has been a complete and utter disaster from the get go for anyone but the über wealthy, sponsors and the Truml administration. FIFA is completely unfit for purpose and I'd love to see a breakaway to try and curb its power.

Imagine one day a WC in England..

All stadia and hotels already exist, make tickets cheap and put rules in around profiteering on hotels etc...make it was welcoming as possible, throw in cheap universal public transport etc..

There doesn't have to be £billions spent and passed around

The whole thing could be done with the infrastructure we already have , and be extremely affordable.

You'd have 100,000s of visitors piling into the county for 6 weeks

 

[Morse]

The increasing involvement of the US in football will just be more nails in football's coffin.

FIFA are a disgrace and not fit for purpose. There needs to be a breakaway and a new governing body established.

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

Imagine one day a WC in England..

All stadia and hotels already exist, make tickets cheap and put rules in around profiteering on hotels etc...make it was welcoming as possible, throw in cheap universal public transport etc..

There doesn't have to be £billions spent and passed around

The whole thing could be done with the infrastructure we already have , and be extremely affordable.

You'd have 100,000s of visitors piling into the county for 6 weeks

The fact that we haven’t had a WC in sixty years is a disgrace. A legacy of Stanley Rous and Alf Ramsey calling the Argies animals. Mexico are about to have their third since then.

Imho the countries best placed to host a tournament are us and Germany

 

[A Visiting Villan]

I live in Mexico City and there is zero excitement about up AMERICAN world Cup. Mexico and Canada have been used as pawns for Trumps tournament and the fact that not a single game from the QF onwards will be played outside of the US is scandalous.

At least one QF or a SF should have been played at Azteca, where the high altitude (2,200 metres or 7,000 feet) will mean reasonable temperatures compared to Dallas and Atlanta which will be sweltering and hind as f*ck.

MEX airport has been going through renovations for 2 years now, disrupting daily life for millions of travellers and workers and all for a couple of games that very, very few Mexicans can afford, never mind justify.

 

[thamesvalleyman]

I was planning to watch the Canada game on 12th June.

Ticket prices on FIFA website (face value not the secondary sale) were $2030 category 1, $1575 category 2 and $950 category 3.

A total f***ing disgrace. They can stick it where the sun don't shine. So if Canada's gane is in a half empty stadium that's why. It's the premium that are charging for host nation games!

Conversely, my category 3 England v Panama ticket on 27th June was $220.

Why's it costing so much money? I've got a mate who's going to see three England matches and he's not paying anywhere near $2k per ticket.

 

[Gloucester]

Top 20 nations should get together to form FIFA2 and start again

 

[Parsoncross]

I live in Mexico City and there is zero excitement about up AMERICAN world Cup. Mexico and Canada have been used as pawns for Trumps tournament and the fact that not a single game from the QF onwards will be played outside of the US is scandalous.

At least one QF or a SF should have been played at Azteca, where the high altitude (2,200 metres or 7,000 feet) will mean reasonable temperatures compared to Dallas and Atlanta which will be sweltering and hind as f*ck.

MEX airport has been going through renovations for 2 years now, disrupting daily life for millions of travellers and workers and all for a couple of games that very, very few Mexicans can afford, never mind justify.

I was at Mexico in 86 Thousands of tickets were given away to the locals as the price of tickets were a month's wages for them

 

[timeforheroes1]

x5 "supporter value" tickets for me our lass and the 3 kids for the Panama match cost us £820 , time factored in the piss take match day transport over 1k before you start for food/drinks etc

 

[The Great MES]

Imagine one day a WC in England..

All stadia and hotels already exist, make tickets cheap and put rules in around profiteering on hotels etc...make it was welcoming as possible, throw in cheap universal public transport etc..

There doesn't have to be £billions spent and passed around

The whole thing could be done with the infrastructure we already have , and be extremely affordable.

You'd have 100,000s of visitors piling into the county for 6 weeks

That's why we'll never get it. There's no backhanders to be made if the infrastructure already exists

 

[thamesvalleyman]

The fact that we haven’t had a WC in sixty years is a disgrace. A legacy of Stanley Rous and Alf Ramsey calling the Argies animals. Mexico are about to have their third since then.

Imho the countries best placed to host a tournament are us and Germany

It's a disgrace that we haven't hosted since 1966 when you look at the countries that have hosted since. Corrupt bids from Russia, Qatar, Saudi and FIFA's abhorrent planning for 2030 to exclude everyone except Saudi. Sadly I have long conceded that there will never be another World Cup in England in my lifetime, personally I reckon it will be 2066 before we get it again.

 

[ivanthereasonable]

FIFA are the most corrupt orginisation out there now

Well, if they wanted the WC to be in US, there were certain standards they had to live down to.

Edit. If it were not for the decent, and even the moderately not so decent fans spending a lot of money, i'd hope the whole thing is a disaster, especially financially.

 

[pRICK]

...but Trump told us it will be the bestest and bigliest soccer tournament ever though

Tidied

 

[Nathan Gunn]

I hadn't thought about the % of matches being played in each country. From a quick search it seems like 13 each for Mexico and Canada and then 78 for USA.

Would corroborate the Mexico City resident's point that they are there for window dressing to support a US world cup

It was done that way to ensure Saudi arabia got the 2034 world cup unchallenged.

It must be a different continent each tournament iirc, so by sharing the next 2 world cups around it means the only continents left to host will be asia / oceania

2026: North America
2030: Europe (Spain, Portgual) and Africa (Morocco)
There's also one off games in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay (South America)

They then brought forward the application process for 2034, which meant no other nations had time to properly challenge the Saudi's (who had been preparing their bid for a long time). The whole thing stinks of corruption

 

[si73]

Imagine one day a WC in England..

All stadia and hotels already exist, make tickets cheap and put rules in around profiteering on hotels etc...make it was welcoming as possible, throw in cheap universal public transport etc..

There doesn't have to be £billions spent and passed around

The whole thing could be done with the infrastructure we already have , and be extremely affordable.

You'd have 100,000s of visitors piling into the county for 6 weeks

FIFA & UEFA hate Great Britain, FIFA more so, because, imho, of the power of the English FA early in FIFA's history. The English FA didn't even acknowledge the WC as a competition as they had left FIFA, didn't enter WC until 1950 (and UEFA's EC until 1968) and wouldn't let English clubs take part in UEFA's club competitions either. The SFA and FAW similar stances.

There's a very good reason the "home of football" (Great Britain) has only hosted 1 WC and EC*. They f***ing hate us.

*co-hosting across Europe isn't the same thing as joint hosts in 2028.

I was at Mexico in 86 Thousands of tickets were given away to the locals as the price of tickets were a month's wages for them

As it should be.

The fact that we haven’t had a WC in sixty years is a disgrace. A legacy of Stanley Rous and Alf Ramsey calling the Argies Uruguayians animals. Mexico are about to have their third since then.

Imho the countries best placed to host a tournament are us and Germany

Agree about Britain and Germany being the natural choices. USA has hosted more WC than Britain. The fuckers barely play football.

 

[Old Timer]

I still prefer the old 26 team World Cups.

Four groups of four teams, quarter finals, semi finals and the the final.

including a third place play off that’s 32 games in total.

Much harder to qualify so a better quality of teams from the off.

All over in three weeks.

 

[si73]

That's why we'll never get it. There's no backhanders to be made if the infrastructure already exists

100%. The last few WC have just been about enriching FIFA and their officials...even La Costra Nostra have more scruples.

 

[A Visiting Villan]

I was at Mexico in 86 Thousands of tickets were given away to the locals as the price of tickets were a month's wages for them

Yeah unfortunately that was many years and many corrupt FIFA elections ago.

Prices for games at Atzeca are well over a months wages and in some cases several months wages.

 

[si73]

Tidied

"Great tournament...really is...don't understand the game myself...I prefer golf...what a game...but a lot of foreigners seem to like it...great chance to fleece them...a lot of money...big money, they'll have to spend...super idea by my friend Gianni to get it here...I'll make us billions he promised...great guy, gave me my peace medal for stopping wars."

 

[A Visiting Villan]

Top 20 nations should get together to form FIFA2 and start again

You do realise the bigwigs at those FAs also have their snouts in the trough too right?

Turkeys very rarely vote for Christmas.

 

[hypersonic]

This might already exist as a general tool, but is there a simple app I can download to track game times for teams I'm interested in?

I've a feeling the interest is going to be sporadic as there's just too much going on.

"Great tournament...really is...don't understand the game myself...I prefer golf...what a game...but a lot of foreigners seem to like it...great chance to fleece them...a lot of money...big money, they'll have to spend...super idea by my friend Gianni to get it here...I'll make us billions he promised...great guy, gave me my peace medal for stopping wars."

Is there a market for Trump keeping the trophy?