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TangerineBayern
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Is it perhaps the average football fan can’t afford it?
PoolRule4EVA
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Good point TB
Graham berrys plastic bag
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My plastic garden furniture has just suffered a good kicking & now I’ve set it on fire, gutted
Macseasider
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Yet Argentina and Brazil supporters are filling three quarters of stadia. Are they being subsidised I wonder?Is it perhaps the average football fan can’t afford it?
ForeverTangerine
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The media were reporting that the South Americans were selling their own cars to get to the World Cup (not sure what cars they have). If I sold mine I’d be lucky to get a one way trip to Malaga via EasyJet
Brazil have done it for decades. Probably not in the immense numbers Argentina have turned up in here, but thousands of them wherever they've gone.
And while I'm no expert in South American sociology, I think there's enough of a split that travel like this would be beyond a huge percentage of the population.
I've always thought there's a very small section of two huge populations that can afford it.
And while I'm no expert in South American sociology, I think there's enough of a split that travel like this would be beyond a huge percentage of the population.
I've always thought there's a very small section of two huge populations that can afford it.
bleach51
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Well that should keep you warm for …at least a couple of minutes, just don’t breath in the toxic fumes.
bleach51
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Well that’s the World Cup over for me,not that in many ways it ever started….unless of course the Moroccans beat the Frogs and even then.
i can’t think of a World Cup where I have watched so little of the games….and yet being retired and at home I could have seen many many more…i simply had very little interest.Yes I watched the England games but apart from tuning into to see the Krauts go out i didn’t watch one other game in full and doubt I will the semis or final.
Maybe my long term love affair with football just no longer exists
i can’t think of a World Cup where I have watched so little of the games….and yet being retired and at home I could have seen many many more…i simply had very little interest.Yes I watched the England games but apart from tuning into to see the Krauts go out i didn’t watch one other game in full and doubt I will the semis or final.
Maybe my long term love affair with football just no longer exists
kuriousoranj
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Brexit, pandemic and energy crisis.. all contributing factors. most people just don't have that kind of money anymore.
TangerineBayern
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They did in 2018 too
He’s coming home
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Can’t beat a Liberace wig
Torycorner
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Yep……was a well organised tournament but definitely lacked the “true football fans” in any numbers.
Atmosphere was more of a “happy clappy Billy Graham Rally” as opposed to a highly charged atmosphere with two sets of “Fantatics” chanting, screaming and exchanging banter.
The best atmosphere I witnessed was in The Belgian Bar of the Doha Intercontinental Pre Match before the USA & Wales games.
England fans chanting “Your just a Colony” at the Yanks, and “we’re on the piss but the Welsh are Going home”!! At the Taffs.
Really enjoyed the trip out there but my pre vinous comments stand : Qatar should have NEVER been awarded “The Greatest Show On Earth”
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Atmosphere was more of a “happy clappy Billy Graham Rally” as opposed to a highly charged atmosphere with two sets of “Fantatics” chanting, screaming and exchanging banter.
The best atmosphere I witnessed was in The Belgian Bar of the Doha Intercontinental Pre Match before the USA & Wales games.
England fans chanting “Your just a Colony” at the Yanks, and “we’re on the piss but the Welsh are Going home”!! At the Taffs.
Really enjoyed the trip out there but my pre vinous comments stand : Qatar should have NEVER been awarded “The Greatest Show On Earth”
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Yes, you should have been in Australia buddy! That would have been brilliantYep……was a well organised tournament but definitely lacked the “true football fans” in any numbers.
Atmosphere was more of a “happy clappy Billy Graham Rally” as opposed to a highly charged atmosphere with two sets of “Fantatics” chanting, screaming and exchanging banter.
The best atmosphere I witnessed was in The Belgian Bar of the Doha Intercontinental Pre Match before the USA & Wales games.
England fans chanting “Your just a Colony” at the Yanks, and “we’re on the piss but the Welsh are Going home”!! At the Taffs.
Really enjoyed the trip out there but my pre vinous comments stand : Qatar should have NEVER been awarded “The Greatest Show On Earth”
seasiderjohn
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If I sell mine i might get enough for return to Cleveleys on the tramThe media were reporting that the South Americans were selling their own cars to get to the World Cup (not sure what cars they have). If I sold mine I’d be lucky to get a one way trip to Malaga via EasyJet
The Catcher in the Rye
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There have been some good matches but this tournament had something for me, it didn’t have the feel of a major international tournament for me, maybe it was because where it was or the time of year?? To replicate that feeling I have had to throw my own patio furniture around the garden, abuse the neighbours and then found a willing group of Russians in town to kick my head in.
Seainsea
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I think the Russian hooligans are otherwise engaged
Eventhepenguins
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incredible_edibles
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Maybe they were all gay and didn't fancy their chances!
there are a lot of them (Brazilians) like close to 200 million and they are scattered all over the World!
in the last 20 years or so many Brazilians (mostly the ones with $$$$$ and decent education) have left Brazil so I guess a large number at this WC could be living in the Middle East / Europe... ??
There are of course some very, very wealthy Brazilians
In the last WC in Russia I had a private student here in Brazil whose sister was spending the summer in London... she was a tennis fans so was there to watch Wimbeldon but was taking trips 2/3 days at a time to Russia to watch Brazil play then jetting back to the UK/...
in the last 20 years or so many Brazilians (mostly the ones with $$$$$ and decent education) have left Brazil so I guess a large number at this WC could be living in the Middle East / Europe... ??
There are of course some very, very wealthy Brazilians
In the last WC in Russia I had a private student here in Brazil whose sister was spending the summer in London... she was a tennis fans so was there to watch Wimbeldon but was taking trips 2/3 days at a time to Russia to watch Brazil play then jetting back to the UK/...
Matesrates
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Can you give me her details?
Mark_GT
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I think this describes a significant proportion of the kind of "fans" that get to these kind of events. Addin F1, Glastonbury, the big horse races, gigs etc etc. A growing and irritating global elite of rich kids on a jolly going from one junket to the next on their allowances. You see them in the crowd shots at all these events taking selfies and waving for the cameras. They often look and sound like they don't have a clue what's going on.