The level of effort (and team selections) will be interesting to see. Once you’re there though the prize money becomes difficult to resist, especially given Chelsea’s PSR issues…
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she’d get, where a fart wouldn’t…
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The prize money for the Club World Cup is considerable, I remember reading, so there’s that incentive. Looking at a wider perspective, getting rid of cup replays and punching down on the FA Cup and then teams going on overseas money making tours, is just so backwards. There is too much football - including end-of-season internationals. Saying that, the Nations League game between Spain and Portugal - with Pedri, Lamine, Fabian Ruiz, Vitinha etc all playing - was great. It’s just a battle between UEFA and FIFA now for getting eyes on their “product” and making that advertising cheese. Get more joy from playing masters football now and when my little one is older so I can take him along to the local grassroots club.
This is very funny
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Similair - Even if not interested in Forest , I believe in Miracles is such a great film about late 70s football
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100% agree.
For me it’s been a gradual losing of interest over the last 20 odd years; the realisation that you now have to spend almost as much time following international business and finance (and latterly geopolitics) and all that associated bollocks just to find out who owns your club.
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Well the CWC failed to capture my interest, or anyones really it seems. Chelsea remain deeply unlikeable, and I refuse to consider them the world’s best team despite over coming clearly the world’s best team on an off day. I will say though Cole Palmer has emerged as England’s great white hope. What a player. Two years ago I thought it was Bellingham but he’s disappeared into a blaze of distasteful marketing and brand furthering. No such nonsense from Palmer.
And congratulations to the ladies for reaching the QF’s, and looking really good
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Yeah I’m a big fan of Cole Palmer. Love the fact he has zero interest in any chat. Just plays the game.
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Will be interesting to see how Chelsea fare in the league, especially towards the 2nd half of the season. Have a feeling a few teams that played in the (month long) CWC might come to regret it later.
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It didn’t capture the imagination at all of kids out here in the US. My son and his friends didn’t talk about it once, and even at the local Vermont Green (USL2 team) and Seacoast United (USL2 team) there was nobody talking about it. When it is blatantly a money grab people ignored it. My kid has somehow managed to get himself onto the New England Revolution summer development team much to his chagrin (he loves to play but has other interests) and even at those practices nobody talked about it.
The fact that some games were selling tickets for as low as $7 said everything. They didn’t sell out one game. Not even the final.
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Where has the money come from to fund the CWC. Poor ticket sales, broadcasting rights can’t have raised much as they sort of sold it to themselves (probably not quite right), no merch sales?
He needs to sort out that haircut though.
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I was going to post just. It’s all so sketchy that Sepp Blatter said it’s problematic. Sepp blatter saying something is corrupt is quote hilarious in all truth.
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Kudos to the women’s team fighting back against Sweden tonight
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Crazy pens!
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Oof what a game. The girls dont know when they are beaten. Absolute scenes at the end there
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