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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

i guarantee you every game after will be packed

Time will tell. I suspect there's a certain bias, as the high rollers who can afford to fly halfway around the world to sit for a few games aren't the ones TSA will be manhandling.

But I can also see a lot of foreign news media scaring people off from the games based purely on the growing reputation of fascist Western travel conditions.

I guess time will tell. There's certainly not a shortage of locals who can fill a stadium. So it might be a moot point.

I do think we'll see a bunch of empty seats in high profile matches though. Corporate accounts love to gobble up more prime seating than they know what to do with.