"Matthew Millar’s phone rings, early on a Sydney morning. He is a 27-year-old right-back for A-League team Macarthur FC, playing in Australia’s equivalent of the Premier League. They have a game scheduled against Sydney FC that evening."
https://t.co/lpWt3AjArO
🚨 NÃO FORAM ESCALADAS! 🚨
A FIFA divulgou as combinações de uniformes para todos os jogos da fase de grupos da Copa do Mundo 2026 e, pasmem: 18 camisas ficarão sem entrar em campo nessa primeira fase. 😳
Modelos desenvolvidos com todo carinho e esmero, alguns entre os mais bonitos da competição, que podem passar a Copa inteira sem uma única aparição.
👕 Qual ausência mais te surpreendeu?
🔥 E qual dessas camisas merece ganhar uma oportunidade no mata-mata?
Conta pra gente nos comentários! ⬇️⚽🌎🏆
I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
Imagine selling Darwin Nunez for £50m, then getting him back for free 12 months later.
That might be the greatest piece of business in football history.
#BringHimHome
Great news for overseas visitors in Japan 🏪💴
FamilyMart and Seven Bank began installing new FamilyMart-exclusive “FamiMa ATM” machines at FamilyMart stores on June 1, 2026.
The rollout will expand gradually to FamilyMart stores nationwide, excluding AFC stores, with FamilyMart planning about 16,000 machines over roughly four years.
For international travelers, the key point is convenience: Seven Bank says FamiMa ATM offers the same functions and services as conventional Seven Bank ATMs, including withdrawals with overseas-issued cards. 🌏