Otherwise, no. But then I reckon professional sport is what kills sport (‘cos they need a few very skilled folk play and everyone else sat on their bums paying to watch).
I find the whole thing jolly amusing; from what I can tell, it’s exactly the same demographic who complain about muslims coming over here and not abiding by our cultures, tradition and laws are precisely the same folk complaining that they are not allowed to go to the Middle East and drink Stella whilst watching a soccer match. Who said irony was dead!
I do love the hypocrisy of these Middle Eastern states – “Alcohol is banned unless you’re rich and/or important, then its OK as long as the peasants can’t see you drinking it”
Has anyone yet fathomed why, barring being a FIFA delegate, you’d actually want to go to the World Cup?
Is anyone going? Not that I really follow these things, but I’ve heard plenty about celebs and pundit being paid to go, celebs and pundits who say they wouldnt go, discussion on the merits of going, advice to people who might go…. but I’ve not really seen anything about actual punters who have bought tickets and are going.
Is anyone going? Not that I really follow these things, but I’ve heard plenty about celebs and pundit being paid to go, celebs and pundits who say they wouldnt go, discussion on the merits of going, advice to people who might go…. but I’ve not really seen anything about actual punters who have bought tickets and are going.
I agree – I am worried that the whole circus will be a complete anti-climax with stadiums filled with corporate guests, locals with an interest/being given free tickets and people being paid to attend (as the more recent rumours are suggesting is happening). I wonder if they will end up piping through fan noise like they did during Covid when games were played behind closed doors…
5Live played a clip more than once yesterday from a reporter who says there is NONE of the normal world cup buzz – no fanfare, no huge marketing in evidence, and not really any noteworthy quantity of football fans.
My BIL is going with a mate of his, but only really becasue they have another mate who lives out there. So they’ve got the cheapest flight out there that I think probably goes via Los Angeles or something and then they’re staying at their mates place.
Suppose it could be interesting, but I wouldn;t fancy it.
I hope there is not some way that BrewDog cannot benefit from this
They’ve been banging on about providing beer to Qatar and espousing all sorts of corporate wishy-washy good vibes including their “anti-sponsorship” of Qatar but have been called out for their hypocrisy on Twitter, LinkedIn etc. Their head guy has responded in a really aggressive way and was challenged why he was behaving that way given the records of bullying at BD. His response was as expected
No point holding the world cup somewhere that homosexuality and alcohol are illegal then moaning it isn’t all rainbow flags and alcohol fueled fans street parties.
Them’s the rules. If you don’t like it don’t hold the biggest sporting event outside the Olympics there.
i’m liking that Bud will probably go after FIFA for the 74M in sponsorship due to broken contract. That’s probably what the FIFA bods got given in bribes to put in in Qatar in the first place :). It’s a high-quality mess really
Them’s the rules. If you don’t like it don’t hold the biggest sporting event outside the Olympics there.
To be fair, absolutely nobody other than certain FIFA executives who’d just literally been handed envelopes full of cash by a Qatari gentleman, thought it would be a good idea to hold it there
Pretty much everyone else thought it was some kind of elaborate joke then became incredulous when they realised they were actually serious
When poorly paid immigrant workers were dying building stadia, that the desert will eventually reclaim, they didn’t bat an eyelid. They really don’t care, for them this is a willy waving competition with UAE, Bahrain, Saudi etc. They think they’ve won and are very smug about it
Watch the Netflix documentary FIFA Uncovered if you want to marvel at the sheer scale of the corruption. Absolutely everything about the entire organisation is rotten to the core
Was chatting about this with a pal this morning. Until he mentioned it I’d completely forgotten it was on, and despite not being a compulsive facebooker or whatever, I was aware of the 2018 one. I live in a fairly tolerant country, and as such I don’t even know if they’ve sent a team over…
Soooo – anyone got any World Cup parties planned then?
The final is 18th December, isn’t it? I’d imagine that would interfere with the normal way that people watch a big sporting event, what with Xmas parties, and all that.
i’m liking that Bud will probably go after FIFA for the 74M in sponsorship due to broken contract. That’s probably what the FIFA bods got given in bribes to put in in Qatar in the first place :). It’s a high-quality mess really
My brother who works at inbev- in finance, reckons that they are not bothered at all, they weren’t expecting to sell much beer there anyways and now they plan to get as much money out of fifa as possible
5Live played a clip more than once yesterday from a reporter who says there is NONE of the normal world cup buzz – no fanfare, no huge marketing in evidence, and not really any noteworthy quantity of football fans.
But this is the absolute case in the UK too. I’ve heard almost nothing about the team, the other teams, build up, chances or anything. Only about the Quatari political situation. Hell, I’ve not even heard 3 lions on the radio! Seems like nobody is really that arsed, wonder how attitudes to it are in other countries.
5Live played a clip more than once yesterday from a reporter who says there is NONE of the normal world cup buzz – no fanfare, no huge marketing in evidence, and not really any noteworthy quantity of football fans
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I find the whole thing jolly amusing; from what I can tell, it’s exactly the same demographic who complain about muslims coming over here and not abiding by our cultures, tradition and laws are precisely the same folk complaining that they are not allowed to go to the Middle East and drink Stella whilst watching a soccer match. Who said irony was dead!