EPT2024 - 2026 Football Thread - Page 125
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sharkie
Austria18631 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26714 Posts
On April 25 2026 17:21 sharkie wrote: Well this is just a special world cup where capitalist country number one and capitalist organisation number one is meeting. I don't think the future ones will be so expensive to go FIFA set the ticket prices, not the host(s). It may be that they’re so high because FIFA think they can get away with it due to the location, and they’ll drop next time around however. Granted it’s yet another World Cup spread across 3 countries so that’ll add to expenses for the types of fans who want to try and follow their country through the whole tourney. I’ll also add that it wasn’t Europe’s turn in the cycle, so other Europeans didn’t, or couldn’t bid. But a majority European World Cup is fine so long as you attached an African country, apparently. Don’t get me wrong, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are all storied footballing nations, and I think we’ll get a cool World Cup, but FIFA’s constant bollocks is for me way beyond rolling the eyes and actively aggravating to the degree it detracts from the WC for me. They’ve expanded it to 48 teams purely to throw a bone to non-European confederations. I think it’ll make the tournament worse in a footballing sense, it also limits the pool of who can conceivably host the thing. And by throwing that bone FIFA get away with murder. They insisted that Australia had a bid ready within a week or so for an event 9-10 years in the future, and then just gave the thing to Saudi when the Aussies couldn’t do it, absolutely brazen shit. I can’t honestly remember if it was Qatar or Saudi, but anyway the FIFA technical committee grades various bid aspects. In one bid cycle Qatar/Saudi scored highest here in terms of football facilities/infastructure. Facilities that did not exist. Now, look if you commit to building x y or z, that should be factored in too don’t get me wrong, but you can’t assess them as exactly equivalent to facilities that do God FIFA suck | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26714 Posts
On April 25 2026 16:26 KobraKay wrote: This is a tough one. Football is what a lot of people here use to escape the hardships of reality, so it is common that regardless of what happens around the ball rolling, it tends to be mostly ignored in the general public. Specific groups will for sure make noise about the US and Trump but that is not the focus now. WC focus usually only starts when the season ends as up to that point the title race and media fighting is fully focused on the league. People complained about ticket prices yes but not that much as far as im aware. Closer to the event i expect to see some debate about boicot should it happen or not, but with cRonaldo going to the WH not so long ago...the average football fan will not think about this im afraid. Perhaps it’s the circles I run in/consume content from, I’m surprised if the Portuguese aren’t showing some of the same At least here there’s not a huge boycott appetite, although I do think there’s more pushback than even Qatar got. Which was mostly from a moral objection(s), from what I’ve heard prices were reasonable and Qatar was a good host in domains like transport and not gouging tourists If I was to characterise the particular segment of the UK I’m talking about, I don’t think we’re at boycott levels. I think it’s more that people are sick of FIFA’s shite and enthusiasm for the World Cup is dropping in line with that | ||
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KobraKay
Portugal4280 Posts
On April 25 2026 20:59 WombaT wrote: Perhaps it’s the circles I run in/consume content from, I’m surprised if the Portuguese aren’t showing some of the same At least here there’s not a huge boycott appetite, although I do think there’s more pushback than even Qatar got. Which was mostly from a moral objection(s), from what I’ve heard prices were reasonable and Qatar was a good host in domains like transport and not gouging tourists If I was to characterise the particular segment of the UK I’m talking about, I don’t think we’re at boycott levels. I think it’s more that people are sick of FIFA’s shite and enthusiasm for the World Cup is dropping in line with that Well the average football fan in Portugal says that only those who dont actually like or watch football care about national teams, and that only changes when seasons end and specially our league is decided. Mentality shifts in that moment, people at that point start to equate patriotism with the support for the NT (which is something i hate because i only care about the teams that play well, not those that get by on ties or 1-0 park the bus regardless if they represent the piece of land that i happen to been borne in -> 2016 euro winners.....) So until then, full media focus is on the league and people wont care at all. In a couple of weeks ill report back what is the general feeling, as of now the sentiment i think is "errr the WC is this year?" Its hard to explain to non portuguese. Its also the sentiment that people only care if their club wins, they dont actually like football (its another cliche saying around here). | ||
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