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Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:18 pm
by the_priest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 0x38e04yro
Tickets are more than £3000 for the lowest priced tickets. No concessions and they are also setting the prices according to the popularity of the teams, so Brazil will be very expensive, Scotland will be cheap and England will be middling cost, but starting at around £300 for a cheap ticket.
I am not interested in football, but this is absolutely ludicrous and totally beyond the means of people with normal incomes. FIFA must have their heads up very expensive bottoms and are totally out of touch with the world.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:44 pm
by weeksy
But people will pay it. Or corporations will.
But the stadiums will be fairly full
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:11 pm
by Yorick
Was reading that earlier. Bloody shame that ordinary proper fans can't go.
Hope it backfires and folk boycott it.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:12 pm
by Yorick
Scotland should be free
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:13 pm
by KungFooBob
Weeksy's right people will pay it.
I was shocked to find that one of my colleagues happily pays £600 for a weekend ticket for the Silverstone F1!
That's just bonkers, imho.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:18 pm
by Yorick
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:13 pm
Weeksy's right people will pay it.
I was shocked to find that one of my colleagues happily pays £600 for a weekend ticket for the Silverstone F1!
That's just bonkers, imho.
I pay about £2500 for my Portimao and Jerez trackdays.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:19 pm
by KungFooBob
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:18 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:13 pm
Weeksy's right people will pay it.
I was shocked to find that one of my colleagues happily pays £600 for a weekend ticket for the Silverstone F1!
That's just bonkers, imho.
I pay about £2500 for my Portimao and Jerez trackdays.
But you get to have ago, not just watch!
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:20 pm
by Mussels
They are getting desperate, football is in decline and they can't stop it.
Womens football made numbers look better for a while but attendance is already dropping, it won't be long before virtue signallers move on to something else.
It seems to be a common trend with NFL and baseball suffering the same in the States, people have more alternatives and aren't willing to pay the ever increasing costs to watch mainstream sport.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:31 pm
by MrLongbeard
Them's the prices for the final match, England fans don't need to worry about buying a ticket........
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:38 pm
by Yorick
Without sounding flash, if England got to final and someone offered me a package of flight, hotel and nice seat, I'd pay the 3 grand.
We're quite frugal, but have money for luxuries.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 7:11 am
by gremlin
Footie fans make me chuckle. Forever moaning about the cost of season tickets, the pay-per-view prices, how much a pie costs, how the players are on £100k a week, etc.
'No longer a working man's game!' they cry.
And then pay it anyway. Oh, and the two replica kits for the kids at £150 a throw.
And the merry-go-round keeps turning.
Ad infinitum.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 7:28 am
by Count Steer
I wouldn't dream of putting money in FIFAs already well-stuffed pockets. They're as bent as a 4 bob bit.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 8:10 am
by Dodgy69
Stadiums will be full of locals aswel as travelling fans I'm sure. I'd much prefer things if they kept the WCFs in countries that play the game at a top level.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 8:30 am
by Jody
the_priest wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:18 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 0x38e04yro
Tickets are more than £3000 for the lowest priced tickets. No concessions and they are also setting the prices according to the popularity of the teams, so Brazil will be very expensive, Scotland will be cheap and England will be middling cost, but starting at around £300 for a cheap ticket.
I am not interested in football, but this is absolutely ludicrous and totally beyond the means of people with normal incomes. FIFA must have their heads up very expensive bottoms and are totally out of touch with the world.
£300 a ticket does sound a lot. Until you realise how much it costs to bribe Fifa into letting your country host the competition!
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 10:43 am
by Slenver
On top of the ticket prices, you'll also have to undergo a thorough check of your social media history for the last 5 years and hand over all phone numbers and email addresses used in the last 10 years, presumably to check for any negative mention of Dear Leader.
I have no interest in giving my money to a dictatorship. Apart from North Korea, cos that actually looks quite cool to visit
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:40 pm
by Taipan
I did a tour of the Emirates Stadium, hosted by Charlie George no less. One thing that becomes very apparent, very quickly, is just how corporate the beautiful game is. The stadium is a 24/7 business and seemed a long way detached from a father and son on the terraces on a Saturday afternoon. Incidentally, Charlie told us that he earns far more from doing tours at the stadium than he ever did playing there!
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:43 pm
by cheb
Jumpers for goalposts. Isn't it, wasn't it, hmmm.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:51 pm
by Beancounter
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:12 pm
Scotland should be free
I was so tempted to bombard you with all the Insta/TikTok videos I could find of the Denmark game.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 7:40 pm
by Dodgy69
KO times might be interesting aswel.
Re: Sell the bike or car to watch FIFA World Cup in NY
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 9:40 pm
by Felix
Beancounter wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:51 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:12 pm
Scotland should be free
I was so tempted to bombard you with all the Insta/TikTok videos I could find of the Denmark game.
Unfortunately they are never consistent. They had a good run the first half of the Euros then back to being shit. America will end up a nice wee Holiday for them but i am thinking it wont be a long trip. Steve Clarke will retire after the World Cup and whoever steps in will change it all around with new ideas and we will be back to good old mince.
