Round ball code talk

[Festerz]

Just so we’re all on the same page. The introduction of ‘hydration breaks’ for the US World Cup is all about player welfare and has nothing to do with advertising opportunities for sponsors.

 

[Duck Farmer]

It's not for ads. The hydration breaks will be used to celebrate the achievements of all the past winners of the FIFA Peace Prize.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

RossFC I pinched your graphics from the World Cup Qualifiers thread on the Soccer board as its easier to just go here to double check the play off groups and who is left in the qualifying matches.

 

[Harlott]

 

[raptalia]

FIFA defending their exorbitantly high prices for World Cup games by saying, 'the money raised will go toward spreading the game in non traditional markets'. I would have thought getting as many people though the gates in the US and Canada would achieve the same objective.

Affordable prices eh? In Los Angeles ticket prices range from US$936 to US$148,000. The most expensive tickets for the entire tournament are US$393,000 in Miami , they must be expecting Mr & Mrs Trump to drop in?

In Qatar in 2022 you could get a Cat4 ticket to the Round of 16 for US$19. That is some price hike.

One journo summed it up perfectly- crazy.

 

[dirty2]

FIFA defending their exorbitantly high prices for World Cup games by saying, 'the money raised will go toward spreading the game in non traditional markets'. I would have thought getting as many people though the gates in the US and Canada would achieve the same objective.

Affordable prices eh? In Los Angeles ticket prices range from US$936 to US$148,000. The most expensive tickets for the entire tournament are US$393,000 in Miami , they must be expect Mr Trump to drop in?

In Qatar in 2022 you could get a Cat4 ticket to the Round of 16 for US$19. That is some price hike.

One journo summed it up perfectly- crazy.

Wtf

 

[Duck Farmer]

FIFA defending their exorbitantly high prices for World Cup games by saying, 'the money raised will go toward spreading the game in non traditional markets'.

Soccer is the #1 sport in 90% of countries with the biggest non-traditional market being the US. I'm sure channeling a few billion into Trump family businesses will help them crack open this opportunity if the FIFA World Peace Prize isn't enough.

 

[raptalia]

Soccer is the #1 sport in 90% of countries with the biggest non-traditional market being the US. I'm sure channeling a few billion into Trump family businesses will help them crack open this opportunity if the FIFA World Peace Prize isn't enough.

Yes, I had forgotten about Trump's FIFA Peace Prize. Doubtless there will be an arse licking ceremony to invest the great peacemaker with his prize.

You have probably gathered that I am no fan of FIFA . They have not yet satisfied me that they are entirely free from graft and corruption. The 2022 failed World Cup bid, which Australia was never going to win, cost the Australian taxpayer 46 million dollars. On that score I take every opportunity to question FIFA's motives. I suspect that I am no orphan when it comes to FIFA.

'Never had a chance': Australia's $46m World Cup bid was doomed from the start, says Blatter

In 2010, Australian taxpayers tipped $46 million into the bid to host the 2022 football World Cup but, according to former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, our time zone meant "Australia had no chance" of hosting football's showpiece tournament.

www.abc.net.au

If Australia has zero chance of hosting the World Cup because our time zone doesn't appeal to broadcasters that means we may as well not bother putting our hands up. Time zones never seem to bother the IOC as Australia has hosted the Olympics twice and will get a third crack at it in a few years time. Could it be that the IOC is not as money driven as FIFA and that they do not have a Sepp Blatter or a Jack Warner in their ranks? Blatter and Warner are long gone but recent events suggest they may have been replaced.

World game yeah right, but only if the clocks are set to the correct time.

 

[Grave Danger]

Bloody hell - 5th on the table, well within reach of UCL qualification* - nup, on yer bike...

Chelsea confirm Enzo Maresca exit amid poor Premier League run

Chelsea confirmed Thursday they have parted ways with manager Enzo Maresca ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester City.

www.espn.com.au

*may already be there from winning that World Club Championship thingy

 

[Schulzenfest]

Bloody hell - 5th on the table, well within reach of UCL qualification* - nup, on yer bike...

Chelsea confirm Enzo Maresca exit amid poor Premier League run

Chelsea confirmed Thursday they have parted ways with manager Enzo Maresca ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester City.

www.espn.com.au

*may already be there from winning that World Club Championship thingy

Carn Chelsea, it's not the Football League First Division anymore! Why are they so ungrateful.

 

[Grave Danger]

Oops, there goes another one...

Manchester United sacks head coach Ruben Amorim

It comes less than a day after the club drew one-all with Leeds United and a testy post-match press conference in which Amorim questioned his own role and the club's management.

www.abc.net.au