I don’t care about football…
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.
“We weren’t able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!”
Can we stop with the usage of the word “aLaRm” on news headlines if people are not actually going to do anything?
“Alarm” doesn’t mean the person has to do anything. You can be alarmed without doing something about it
This cup is going to be a such fucking disaster and I love it.
if scalpers are desperate to offload thier excessive amount of tickets for lower price, its a GOOD sign.
This is the bigger problem. FIFA still got their money because scalpers bought the tickets. They don’t care about hotels or scalpers as their bottom line still got padded.
But is it first order scalpers or secondary? It would be just as hilarious to see Ticketmaster or whatever company stuck with the bill.
I have no interest but it’d be hilarious if we (Canada) and Mexico can turn a profit on the thing while the US is passed over like the fly-over nation it so wants to be
Oh PLEASE I would love to see that. It makes me sad that this regime has got me cheering for the country to fail quicker so the cult will wake up so we can actually have some change.
When we fail, they’ll blame the left for not giving right wing shit “a try”.
100%. Classic crybully behavior (aka fascist pussies)
If it ends up being bad enough to kill FIFA, I’ll throw a fucking party about it.
Honestly, same.
Could have been a great event, especially here in KC where we’ve had events with a million-plus people go off with less than ten arrests multiple times in recent memory.
But the billionaires, the fascists, and the bureaucrats have ruined it like they do with every fucking thing. I hope it fails spectacularly.
Yup.
Zero interest in sports but looking forward to YouTube autopsies of this clusterfuck of a trainwreck.
Dude I hate football because it’s corrupt and most players just act like children, but It’s the first time our national team (Jordan) reaches it and with a promising lineup too :(
Dont let the corrupt professional football stop you from enjoying an extremely fun and cheap sport!
I’m willing to allow for them to receive FIFA peace prizes as recompense.
Great!!
Fuck the world cup. Literally nobody i know cares about it.
When they were still debating it I sent a letter to my MLA saying it is ridiculous.
Even if you don’t care about it, I’ve seen like no ads for it. Usually they are playing by now and plastered everywhere. Only thing I’ve seen is shitty looking merch at gas stations and Walgreens.
Huh, now that you mention it, I don’t see much promotional merch in Japan either. They usually have stuff to support the national team for these kind of events. But I guess they wouldn’t even be able to print packages in Samurai Blue since even our potato chips packaging will soon be black and white.
Yeah I’ve only seen the shitty merch at airports and nothing else, and I live near a host city.
Well anything beyond ticket sales is still game.
They probably have sold all tickets to first-level skalpers (and maybe to a handful of real fans) long ago, so why waste money on advertizing?
Wouldn’t it be fucking brilliant if scalpers were left holding the bag as it were - thousands of unsold tickets!
Given the low hotel booking numbers, this might actually happen.
The lack of promotion is weird now that you’ve point it out
It is not. They sold the tickets, mostly to first level skalpers, so they are good and don’t need any more advertising.
When is it happening? Next year?
This summer, I believe. Starting early June.
You are correct, it’s starting June 11th. That’s why I think it’s so weird there has been like zero ads I’ve seen so close to the tournament.
“The Continental Soccer Association is coming to America! It’s all here - fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!”
“You’ll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Adiaga! Adiaga two! Badiaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!”
“This match will determine once and for all which nation is the greatest on earth - Mexico or Portugal!”
WTF!!! World Cup is The most important event in the World. No other sport event can get close. And yes, USA (backed by FIFA) fucked World cup by introducing Half-Time Show. Nonsense.
And it’s the most embarassing world cup ever because it’s in this shithole country with a child raping president overseeing it. If there’s one wc to boycott in your life it’s this one.
Oh I love the world cup and am very excited about it… in general.
Specifically I hate that this corrupt fucking government is going to be participating in it at all.
To be fair, FIFA is almost as corrupt as Trump
Which is really saying something.
FIFA is like, world class level corruption. Sepp Blatter is the GOAT and Trump is getting close.
I use to love it… Pretty much right up until Germany, but since then?
Russia? Qatar? Amerikkka??
Nah, I’m fucking done with FIFA, and their world peace prize
hey don’t you DARE insult the FIFA World Peace Prize
Watch it on pirated broadcasts.
This is a moral obligation.
Plus with Ebola it just seems extremely not worth it right now.
Don’t forget, the US also has measels and typhus.
I’d be more afraid of ICE concentration camps. But if an Ebola infected person would attend this event, it would get interesting fast.
Ebola is not that contagious. It’s not like airborne COVID it other similar viruses.
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?
Good, i will not attend it even harder.
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.
That violin is much too big.
Such a shame the creator of that hilarious picture doesn’t know where the bow goes playing violin
Tardigrade doing their best!
False. The tardigrade is clearly practicing their sub ponticello technique. A sound I think clearly would fit here.
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.
How is this Possible? They gave Trump the PEACE PRIZE!
*“Piece of shit prize”
The field gets installed on the white house lawn after the cage match is taken down
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.
And football fans love to be shakem down, dangle some new shirts or an “official ball” in front and they bite. Real accomplishment by fifa
They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
They are avoiding the US, try to keep up.
The fans left encouraged by ICE arresting and deporting anyone they can find.
And $15k visa bonds to enter the country didn’t help with traveling arrangements.
Yep, it has all been well managed. May be Demented Don is happy with his Peace Prize though a project management prize for this schemozzle is unlikely.
From his perspective, this is a win. A successful world cup would force Americans, at least temporarily, to think about the world as more than just them.
This keeps them isolated and ignorant.
The frog in the well… Votes for oligarchs.
