Wonderwall wrote:Its a crazy situation they are creating, they have cancelled the Qatar Confederations cup which is supposed to be a dry run for the world cup event! They said its too hot to hold it and are saying that they will hold it in a different country. The whole reason behind the stupid worthless internationals was to give the country hosting the cup the following year a dry run at event hosting! What a pile of shite they are!
So if you are an African international and your team won the ACON in 2020, you have just played through the summer. You then play a full season into 2021 and then play a full summer at the Confed Cup. Then straight into another league season and a winter world cup, an extended league season and straight into another ACON Tournament!
Your are going to be loving Fifa for that.
Abu Dhabi wrote:Look at all you pussies complaining.. Its really funny
Its like fighting with your wife about the dinner you'll be having on her birthday after 7 years.
you are football fans, not fookin FAs and organisers, let them worry about the schedules.
I dont like Qatar much, but to be honest, i dont see what is the fuss about. The schedules will change for a couple of seasons, but thats about it. You are having the same amount of football. There is enough time to prepare for the commercial stuff.
I honestly think playing in winter will make for a better world cup. Better than playing it with knackered players.
And why are people complaining about the size and population of Qatar again?
Abu Dhabi wrote:Look at all you pussies complaining.. Its really funny
Its like fighting with your wife about the dinner you'll be having on her birthday after 7 years.
you are football fans, not fookin FAs and organisers, let them worry about the schedules.
I dont like Qatar much, but to be honest, i dont see what is the fuss about. The schedules will change for a couple of seasons, but thats about it. You are having the same amount of football. There is enough time to prepare for the commercial stuff.
I honestly think playing in winter will make for a better world cup. Better than playing it with knackered players.
And why are people complaining about the size and population of Qatar again?
Why, without having televised a single World Cup match under their 2018 and 2022 deals, were Fox and Telemundo being rewarded with a third cycle of World Cup events?
And why would FIFA’s TV director later that day say the deal was made after “reviewing the market for its media rights” without talking to ESPN and Univision, its former rights holders, in that review?
Earlier this week, FIFA dropped its drawers a bit to provide a glimpse at its motivation. Jerome Valcke, the organization’s secretary general, said the deal with Fox was made to avoid facing a lawsuit from the media giant over shifting the 2022 Cup from the heat of the Qatari summer to the late fall and winter. The admission was surprising, but it made sense.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the president of sports for Univision Communications, said in a phone interview Thursday that FIFA failed to maximize the value of the United States rights in its deals with Fox and Telemundo and that the agreements jeopardized the possibility of the 2026 World Cup coming to America.
“If the rights are already fixed,” he said, “there’s little incentive to FIFA to award 2026 to the U.S.” He added: “If we had been asked to bid, we would have taken it very seriously.
Ted Hughes wrote: a bunch of us are going to end up missing City games we have paid for, due to holidays etc, watching players who are fucking knackered due to non stop football & you sit there thinking you can pass fucking judgement on us ?
How many fucking games do you go to ?
Fuck off.
twosips wrote:Gotta admit i dont really care either to be honest. It doesn't really affect my life in any way at all so im totally indifferent to it.
I can see why others may be upset, but its such a long time away that i find it very difficult to give a shit.
Abu Dhabi wrote:Ted Hughes wrote: a bunch of us are going to end up missing City games we have paid for, due to holidays etc, watching players who are fucking knackered due to non stop football & you sit there thinking you can pass fucking judgement on us ?
How many fucking games do you go to ?
Fuck off.
Go on then. What is etc?
So its just the holidays?
If attending City games is so important then you will find a better way of arranging your freakin holidays.
And what knackered players? Its just 3 to 6 games form SOME of the players, whom will probably be given a couple of weeks to recover.
I hate FIFA more than you do, although i wont wish them death, but I'd rather stick to criticising them for the right reasons, not turn into a drama queen and complain for made up silly reasons for the sake of it.
Since when we started caring about broadcast rights and sponsors? Fuck them too, they will sort each other out.
Im_Spartacus wrote:twosips wrote:Gotta admit i dont really care either to be honest. It doesn't really affect my life in any way at all so im totally indifferent to it.
I can see why others may be upset, but its such a long time away that i find it very difficult to give a shit.
I feel similar, besides, two of the stadiums are less than a mile from my house so I'm quite happy with arrangement!
I dont think a winter World Cup would be a bad thing, and think summer domestic football has its merits, On the other hand, I know where people are coming from, the anger is that the whole game is being turned upside down by a bunch of bent cunts for their own personal gain, and that regular match goers with kids are going to either have to not take holidays in the summer, or miss games.
On a practical level, this World Cup's economic implications are scarily widespread for those who rely on summer holiday trade around Europe. If a million match goers in the UK decided not to take a holiday that year, the knock on effects around Europe would be huge. The alternative is the effect on clubs not getting their regular gate money for those who do choose to go on holiday.
Whichever way you look at it, somebody loses out big time whilst the FIFA execs coin it in, and Abu Dhabi's view is just a little too simplistic
Ted Hughes wrote:Abu Dhabi wrote:Look at all you pussies complaining.. Its really funny
Its like fighting with your wife about the dinner you'll be having on her birthday after 7 years.
you are football fans, not fookin FAs and organisers, let them worry about the schedules.
I dont like Qatar much, but to be honest, i dont see what is the fuss about. The schedules will change for a couple of seasons, but thats about it. You are having the same amount of football. There is enough time to prepare for the commercial stuff.
I honestly think playing in winter will make for a better world cup. Better than playing it with knackered players.
And why are people complaining about the size and population of Qatar again?
A corrupt organisation whom we despise and would happily see a fair few of them dead, is fucking about with our league, in order to play a load of 2nd rate football, in a country who's whole bid is based on fucking bribes, & was voted for on a SUMMER schedule, not a winter one, & a bunch of us are going to end up missing City games we have paid for, due to holidays etc, watching players who are fucking knackered due to non stop football & you sit there thinking you can pass fucking judgement on us ?
How many fucking games do you go to ?
Fuck off.
Im_Spartacus wrote:On a practical level, this World Cup's economic implications are scarily widespread for those who rely on summer holiday trade around Europe. If a million match goers in the UK decided not to take a holiday that year, the knock on effects around Europe would be huge. The alternative is the effect on clubs not getting their regular gate money for those who do choose to go on holiday.
Whichever way you look at it, somebody loses out big time whilst the FIFA execs coin it in, and Abu Dhabi's view is just a little too simplistic
twosips wrote:I'm not sure id forgo a two week holiday just to watch a couple of premier league games, personally. I think i'd get over it as a one off and just find a nice bar and watch them games in the sun somewhere..... it is only football after all.
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