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.

This cup is going to be such a fucking disaster and I love it.

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.

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.

Ow no, anyway.

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.

I'm willing to allow for them to receive FIFA peace prizes as recompense.

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.

womp womp

"We weren't able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!"

How is this Possible? They gave Trump the PEACE PRIZE!

Canada too! Hotels are whining in Canada, after having jacked prices up to like $1000/night for the event.

It's surprising, having the event done in 16 different incredibly geo-distant locations, with jacked up hotel prices, doesn't seem to be a draw in a market where soccer is a lukewarm sport (it's a bit bigger in Mexico, I think, but Canada and the US not so much). Shit, with the recent immigration surge from India, you'd prolly get more buzz goin by hosting cricket.

I can't figure out who actually thought any of this was a good idea other than marketing people and idiots who never planned to attend any of it. It's phenomenally punitive to fans.

Short of having a private jet, who is going to more than 2 or 3 games? Who is honestly expected to just scamper around a region of a whole continent, then criss-cross a whole continent, to support their country other than people paid to by their country's Ministry of Sport or something similar to attend every game? People who follow sports teams around the US during a season of anything are an infinitely tiny group.

Like a team outside of your small Group stage? Fuck you, the games are 4000km apart. Instead of enjoying games for the game itself, you can only be a nationalist.

If the winner of Group H gets to the final (lol) they will have gone from playing a territory spanning Atlanta to Jalisco, then literally bouncing back and forth between the West Coast and Texas until heading to NJ. They might have flown enough miles to circle the globe by the time they're done.

What city will see even a notably economic benefit from what amounts to 6 weeks of highly compressed MLS setup? The only thing that's concentrated here is taking expensive flights. Everything else is diluted to the point of being worthless.

This whole Cup should be considered a human rights abuse, by all accounts.

Good, i will not attend it even harder.

Can't get blood from a stone.

The field gets installed on the white house lawn after the cage match is taken down

aw shucks, too bad.

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.

The grift is fucking awful beyond belief.

Personally, I boycott...

Fuck the world cup. Literally nobody i know cares about it.

Surely all the hotel owners are fine with this because the reason they are rich hotel owners in the first place is that they TaKe RiSkS with their capital, right?

Right?

Great!!

Handing this event to Mexico, USA and Canada was a stupid idea in the first order.

When the World Cup is done in a European country, you can travel from location to location by train in a few hours, less than half a day. You can book your hotel somewhere independent of the game location, and move to all the games from there and be back for the night.

In the current event, you basically have to book a hotel in the games' location, have to fly there, and usually rent a car there.

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