Usually I subscribe to live television for the six weeks of this, but because of FIFA’s gross packaging for this year’s tourney, just gonna catch whichever games work allows at the Black Hart, enjoying it with others, as it should be.
Will and the Loons
Of all the scandals that FIFA have made for themselves around this World Cup, the ticket one might be the hardest to shake.
But it’s part of a trend of cultural events being taken over by/staged for the corporate class. On the commodification of experience:
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
observer.co.uk
The world’s game is being repackaged for an elite audience