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People need to chill. They are clearly counting the dead slaves buried under the pitch as attending. Everything is above board.
Edit:
Holy Moly - just turned my phone back on.
Nod to the Danish for raising the question about FIFA membership. Let’s hope the European nations + more break away. Clearly an organisation ruled by money and zero morals.
We need a FIFAFA - that’s Federation International Football Association For All. Not just for straight men with money.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
They counted the corpses of migrant workers who got buried under the stadium.
RideTheStimutacs
They're counting the bodies their stadium was built on.
Flightmaster101
Just to add some context: att. figs are based on sold seats, not ppl who actually attend. Also when tix to big events dont sell sponsors…
Ffudmethen
And they make far more money on broadcasting rights, they don't care if the stadiums are empty
Flightmaster101
often step in and buy out the unsold seats. They dont always do it early enough to fill them. But f**k the sponsors and FIFA and Qatar
MisterBrahanovich
Part of that is bots for scalpers (stubhub etc.) buy so much but don’t always resell all of it
Flightmaster101
Truth
Wikipedo
Hope they lost money
zerovanity59
In the US attendance figure are normally based on the number of people that pass through the gates.
idowhat
Same in the UK - attendance is based on the gates
GeForcen
You can get the real ones from the fire marshal report. You can lie to the press, people lie to stockholders, you can not lie to fire dep.
AK90
Assuming that Qatar gives a shit about fire safety lol. Unless you where talking about the US here.
InTangier
The number of people there should be zero. But it's amazing how some football fans can ignore the real cost of their fun and passion.
idowhat
If they knew about the booze it would have been
InTangier
Which speaks volumes about the culture around football.
idowhat
It’s awful. Got Rugby World Cup tickets and took my kids 6 / 4. Beer is allowed in your seats. Amazing for the kids - no swearing.
idowhat
My wife given premier league tickets to take the kids. My wife has never been to a game and thought it would be nice. I showed her some
idowhat
Videos. Needles to say we didn’t go. You’re not allowed to drink in your seats at the football.
diezl97
The empty seats are people who care about human rights and so are boycotting Qatar.
jameseromans8888
Anyone got a list of sponsors so we can make sure to avoid them?
TheCrankyCow
https://www.fifaworldcupnews.com/fifa-world-cup-2022-sponsors-list/
Ghlargh
I'm apparently already boycotting all of these.
Them3OtherGuys
They're all in queue for the toilet.
Ihatedecidingonausername
More like a trench in the dirt out back
Lodrial
Singular toilet. They only installed one.
FweejTheOverseer
It’s only for men.
badatediting
Genital check takes time, but they got to make sure
huskygenes
By any stroke of luck, you will prove them right.
huskygenes
$20k for the use of a corporate sponsored toilet.
CandleToad
Half the seats were reserved for Thumama, but she didn't show up.
lucyboo
Shame on all of them for sitting in these seats
squirrellbot
The Trump inauguration of World Cups.
Randomactsofcruelty
Lol. Yall still sucking trump off
LAMovieDesign
Lol, no. We’re still making fun of him.
Rockafella83
Could be worse.. like Ticketmaster selling their tickets with dynamic pricing to skyrocket to half a million for final
Rubyrose99
As opposed to Trump inauguration, which was the World Cup of mediocrity.
urboyevan2
Yessssss?
ActionJohnnie
Slaves don’t count
gnomegenome
Are they counting the bodies buried under the field?
bikergeek6249
the same crew that counts attendance at Trump rallies
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
I mean that's not too hard to imagine. They have similar belief structures.
TheFastpaws
I wonder how many of them are in the death shack motels.
Xt3rminat3
Damn there are more corpses than fans in that stadium.
MightyIink
If the pandemic taught me anything it's that you can trust the numbers given to you by official's.
cwdrifter55
Sounds like they have 45 rally counters.
codenametrixie
OMG they're counting the dead slaves.
HuruinaInu
Ghosts
MarkusAwesomesauce
This is standard when you want to hype something up.
Jewdakris
Fifa is like the NCAA, it's a bunch of people who don't do anything of value other than take money from the people who actually do the thing
Muunk
The empty seats were people in line getting beer.
Jaqdakloun
Wait, but they're not selling any alc....oooohhhh !
Thekindofkindlyman
colonelgandalf
TheStealthHippopotamus
chrisbgg
Takes a while to get beer in the adjacent country..
teflondan
I hear that line is really slow.
boblives
I went to the Honduras Vs Chile match in 2010 and that was at max capacity, like a million angry bee screaming in your fave
kilgoth1
As the world cup should be.
28dayslaterwasawarning
Yup. They were in Amsterdam though.
kilgoth1
This comment needs to be higher up.
opus68
Too soon
MikePowers
?
BurningVeryImportantThings
as far as I know you have to leave the event to get alcohol. Not sure why too soon did so well as a comment but I kinda get it...?
Muunk
Alcohol is banned at this year's world cup https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63674631
5amNonsense
What'd I miss this time
slyvic
Qatar banned the sale of beer, so the sponsor of Fifa, Budweiser is pissed, but its shit beer anyways.
slyvic
Sorry if you're a Budweiser fan lol
BurningVeryImportantThings
nothing it's just too soon...
PinglePork
I remember reading that they banned beer at the world cup. I think thats what they were referring to
suckstoyourauntie
No alcohol for the peasants.
UmamiMama
Yes, two days before the opening day.
DarkBusterBaron
And one of the vendors is suing them for breach of contract.
bushfrogben
I used to work in ticketing at a previous WC, my bet is the Qatari Organising Committee is buying the ticket surplus (and more) to create 1/
bushfrogben
The illusion of a sold out WC. The organisation is in charge of the ticketing and gets the gate receipts so they don't care about a loss 2/
bushfrogben
As this is all about creating a record of a successful WC on paper. The OC has already paid "fans" to come in exchange for free seats 3/
bushfrogben
And also a stipend along with basic accomodation that are required to be active on social media to showcase the country positively 4/
bushfrogben
As this is the only goal for the government, this is the most expensive PR project ever. This is not a sporting event it's sportwashing.
ArsenalThePhoenix
where will the european nations break away? UEFA is as corrupt as FIFA. And a few of those teams' governments do business deals with qatar
FlameSquare
They might be counting the people who died under the construction of the stadium?
djangojazz
I am just amazed that the people in Iran are cool but the people in charge everywhere seem to be capitalistic fascist fucks no matter what.
idowhat
I went to Iran in 2011. Spent a week being entertained by the friendliest people. Also drunk - every night was a party night… eye opening
DudeItLooksLikeIDidntChooseAnUsername
They went to the bathroom
Vix4
Dead slaves deserve to see the match too!!
basicisaac
Somehow every stadium has a seat limit but Qatar keeps announcing “official attendance” as somehow exceeding limits by the thousands? How?
sbristow
Explanation https://theathletic.com/3922997/2022/11/22/world-cup-attendances/
YeOldeImgurian
Nobody's stopping them. People have overlooked far worse than mere lying to be there, not like they'll care about this if they ever find out
deviantduck69
A lot of STL Cardinals games surpass capacity due to standing room only tickets.
bushfrogben
There are no standing room spaces at a world cup of footie by design.
HedonistBeard
Yeah I think they're just pointing out that seat limits don't correlate perfectly to attendance limits.
AbelardSnazz
Qatar says initial capacity info was based on FIFA minimum requirements (eg at least 40, 000 or 80,000); but real capacity is higher
ForlornFennec
Astramancer
They hired trump to count the crowds.
Arracor
Wait, they thought he could count..?
Autittuderp
Oh great...so its going to be *more than anyone ever has ever counted in the history of counted crowds*
Ghlargh
Either that, or he gets bored and stops at 12.
Autittuderp
He never *actually* counted anything over 9 because his fingers stop there...and he is using one to count,
Ghlargh
That's impressive though, being able to see things that small at his age.
UnattendedDeviant
Would be nice to know time of game this photo was taken and score.
Scarecrow85
Saw this at second half.
HardOnStrokeFoundation
He means at what point in the game this was taken. If it was first couple minutes could explain lack of fans. Looked empty to me today tho
UnattendedDeviant
Thanks. I have no doubt they would pump up numbers. Just can't tell based on one photo not showing stage of game.
AndrewBuggy
I watch almost all the games. Only the opening game looked packed out to me.
Sulldaddy
Watch a game, empty seats everywhere during every game. Doesnt matter who is playing
circlebreaker
Almost no sports game in any league fills 100% of the seats, why are they lying if people can easily see that it's untrue?
MrJenks
Winnipeg jets in the NHL had 332 consecutive sell outs when they returned. Almost 10 years.
BigJT
Sold out does not mean full capacity. There are always empty seats (people get sick, etc).
MrJenks
I'm a season ticket hold and have been to hundreds of games. In those first 10 years it was nuts to buts full every night.
WoodfolkFae
Not at world cup though, it's normally booked