If Cape Verde reach the round of 32, their FA banks $11m prize money.
That's 0.3% of their GDP. Apply that uplift to the US and it'd be over $100bn.
Okay, it's a crude metric... But the country's president has emphasised World Cup economic benefits too.
https://t.co/u9KsvXzDPX
@ZachGarbarino@FAmmiranteTFJ A country that won’t let all the teams in has no business hosting the World Cup Similarly the despicable treatment of Senegal and Uruguay is not something hosts do. Oh yes. And the profiteering by putting up transport prices and things like water in the stadia
@brianmoore666 Big parties were always unstable coalitions held together by the fact that they hated the other lot more now they are split asunder and hate their own side more
@smnhndmch@steve07820991@MartinSLewis I get the point you are making but that isn’t how a parliament democracy works and no party would agree to such a proposal in government None of them
@Russ1Prentice@KSchneckner@janelsooo But the question remains. Why can’t the WR line up in the endzone? The reason they don’t is the same as the reason the offside rule exists
A real long shot but can people retweet this please.
Yesterday all my items were stolen in Eastbourne including my stats book which has 20 years worth of details in. Laptops, phones, clothes, shavers etc can all be replaced but this can’t and is useless to anyone else. It’s in a plastic folder you can see in the left hand side of this photo. Can anyone in that neck of the woods please keep an eye out. I’m gutted about this.
@dilanesper If you’re watching say the Olympic 1500m final on the track. How would you feel about an idea that athletes stop to have a drink half way round? Good idea or is endurance part of the point. It’s not neutral, the breaks change the game for no benefit
@spicyn_fat@6Merican@KanteBeStopped7@_nickm17 If you are saying you shake down everyone that’s hardly in your favour
Not letting team officials and indeed allowing teams to stay in the country
Forcing football into four quarters instead of two halves
Everything good about it is down to the away fans