This cup is going to be such a fucking disaster and I love it.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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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".
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If it ends up being bad enough to kill FIFA, I'll throw a fucking party about it.
if scalpers are desperate to offload thier excessive amount of tickets for lower price, its a GOOD sign.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
Fuck the world cup. Literally nobody i know cares about it.
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.
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.
Yeah I've only seen the shitty merch at airports and nothing else, and I live near a host city.
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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.
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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.
Ow no, anyway.
I'm willing to allow for them to receive FIFA peace prizes as recompense.
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.
Football (suck it, USA)
Not gonna include Australia or Canada or Japan in sucking it?
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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.
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.
And then factor in how many would even risk it under the current US government. We've all read the stories of random travellers being arrested and spending a fortnight in terrible arrest conditions before being able to fly home.
In 2022, in Qatars application, they did so with a maximum ticket price of $1500. Which quickly became a $5000 ticket after they had secured the event.
And that was already at the time the most expensive tickets to a world cup game, ever.
Though i cannot say i have much hope for the insainely corrupt organisation that is FIFA. Not to mention how much they stink of shit from all the ass licking of Trump.
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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.
That's another reason. Hosting a world cup in an European country where you can easily reach all game locations within a few hours by train or car is different than one where you have to fly a few hours to get to the next game.
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aw shucks, too bad.
womp womp
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.
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"We weren't able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!"
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
Personally, I boycott...
Same.... 2nd one in a row.
When I was younger, the world Cup marked milestones in my life, I loved the atmosphere and excitement it brought every four years....
But as I grew older and wiser, I'm fucking done with that clownshow. Germany was great,but fuck eEverything since then (Russia, Qatar, and now canmexusa)
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The grift is fucking awful beyond belief.
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