Remember when World Cups felt like World Cups?
Proper 5pm and 8pm kick-offs. Finish work, get home, stick the game on, and there’d be a genuinely brilliant group match waiting for you. Argentina v Nigeria. Holland v Spain. Germany v Ghana. Games that actually mattered, at times people could watch, in groups that had jeopardy from day one.
Now look at it.
A bloated tournament, no longer 32 teams, staged across America with matches kicking off at silly o’clock for half the football world. Commercial breaks dressed up as “player drinks breaks”. Endless filler. Groups with no edge. Half the games feeling like warm-up acts for a tournament that doesn’t really start until the quarter-finals.
It used to feel like the greatest football festival on earth.
Now it feels like FIFA have taken something perfect, stretched it, monetised it, sanitised it, and somehow made it worse.
More teams. More games. More sponsors. Less magic.
A fucking mess.
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@icardo8 This is a bit rich coming from a bloke who cheated a nation out of a world cup by intentionally handing the ball into the net.
I don't disagree with him, but honestly who cares what a cheat thinks about anything?
All these 🤡 posting tweets about Kretinsky & Gold's statement as if it's something special and to be proud about.
Wake up. These people are parasites. Gold especially after what her family have done to the club.
@WestHamViews_@Sherylbone51 Glad the daughter of a bloke who was part of a team who sold our ground and swapped out our badge all for profit is still around the make more money from the club?
Fuck off.
@emwithme@amscanlon@TheGriftReport Mum of the year. Leaving instructions to a seven year old text her grandparents.
Your kids should be with social services.
@Sam6WHU@vi0letb0nes What a load of hot steaming piss.
Oh look another billionaire has arrived to fleece the shit out of the club dressed up as some kind of heroic saviour.
He's keeping a bloke the in 33 games relegated us because he's cheap as chips.
@Footballtweet The comments from our American cousins are completely misplaced.
Football in Europe is tribal. Grounds (most of the good ones) are absolutely bouncing at the big games.
Having some obese family eating in the front row is a total atmosphere killer. 🤣
The EU is a corrupt cease pet full of unelected career politicians whose sole job is to continue the gravy train to serve the benefit of those that live off funding from citizens that they have absolutely no interest in.
They've expanded their span of control to say above the boundaries of what the federation was set up for all those years ago.
A horrific group of individuals.
@NoushardMUFC I agree with you that he has a poor CV with two relegations.
I don't think it's fair for you to compare him to players with much more experience than him though.
He is worth £85M if a club is prepared to pay it.
All these people arguing about how she can choose who she wants to speak to etc.
Yes she can.
But when a polite old man, clearly of stature in a place where interviews are taking place, politely says hello and asks a question, most of us raised correctly would smile and respond.
This horrific lady behaved exactly as one would expect her to.