Football (Soccer) Thread

[crazy canuck]

PSA - never host the World Cup in your city. On top of the exorbitant cost, FIFA is now demanding that long cherished city events be cancelled. So no Jazz festival, no dragon boat races (which is a popular community event), and the list of cancellations goes on.

Isn't it a bit late to make demands? What are they going to do if we don't cancel those events? Move the games to the US?

FIFA is taking the position that it is their contractual right to insist on exclusivity.  I have not read the contract, and I am not sure it is publicly available, so I have no idea how valid their position is. But it is now being reported that the events are being cancelled, so I infer the obligation exists - and whoever is responsible for bringing this to town didn't do their due diligence before agreeing to be a host.

[Jacob]

Fucking hell.

[crazy canuck]

Fucking hell.

 

[Norgy]

FIFA does not see that those events will just compound the experience? Infantino really is a pr**k. 

[Sheilbh]

Said it before but I never thought someone could make me miss Sepp Blatter. Here we are.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Will you be allowed to play MP online games during the WC?

[crazy canuck]

 

[Duque de Bragança]

PSA - never host the World Cup in your city. On top of the exorbitant cost, FIFA is now demanding that long cherished city events be cancelled. So no Jazz festival, no dragon boat races (which is a popular community event), and the list of cancellations goes on.

Wasn't it one of the reasons Montréal and Québec gave up on hosting WC games as well?

[Jacob]

Wasn't it one of the reasons Montréal and Québec gave on hosting WC games as well?

Good for them.

[crazy canuck]

PSA - never host the World Cup in your city. On top of the exorbitant cost, FIFA is now demanding that long cherished city events be cancelled. So no Jazz festival, no dragon boat races (which is a popular community event), and the list of cancellations goes on.

Wasn't it one of the reasons Montréal and Québec gave on hosting WC games as well?

I don't know

[Syt]

Keep in mind, these are the guys who required cities to give FIFA vehicles special right of way during the Brazil world cup and made the hosts lift the ban on alcohol in stadiums that had been instituted to curb lethal fan violence.

[Norgy]

If Carlsberg made football associations... 

[Grey Fox]

PSA - never host the World Cup in your city. On top of the exorbitant cost, FIFA is now demanding that long cherished city events be cancelled. So no Jazz festival, no dragon boat races (which is a popular community event), and the list of cancellations goes on.

Wasn't it one of the reasons Montréal and Québec gave on hosting WC games as well?

I don't know

It is. That's just not an acceptable ask. Quebec's Tourism/Sport minister at the time said she couldn't fanthom telling F1 that Montreal couldn't host the race in 2026.

[crazy canuck]

Well done

I wish whoever was responsible for it coming to BC was as wise

[Norgy]

That's Nottingham Forest halfway to a European final, while still struggling at the wrong end of the Premier League.

I watched the game, and the handball was clear.

For those who think I am biased, I would say I am as unbiased as this fellow.