Craig Burley

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8,995 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2 Sep

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ESPN FC · Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

But you're talking about opening round games, group stage matches, and you're asking, like you said, a whole lot.

And again, I mean, it's... And the one disclaimer in that email from U.S.

Soccer was...

We have no control over the ticket prices.

This is all set by FIFA.

So don't, as an American soccer fan, give US soccer the benefit of the doubt that they're not in control of this.

FIFA are big into talking about growing the game, right?

Yeah.

That's why we've made the tournament 48 teams,

Certainly, I don't agree with its open standardization, but that's what they've done.

They talk about that's their way of growing the game.

My argument would be, how is pricing the next generation, basically, of soccer fans, stroke soccer players, how is pricing people out of going and falling in love and wanting to be that person, wanting to be that person in 20 years' time or 15 years' time, how is pricing people out of that growing the game?

There's only growing one thing, your bank balance.

For Mr Burley, with La Liga doing a retro matchday, what would you implement from current football, besides money, in the era in which you played?

Is there anything you like today better than when you were playing?

Or vice versa.

What would you take back from the day that no longer kind of happens now?

Well, as I said this other day, I don't like going to any big sporting events, and everybody stood there with their phones.

Live in the now.

I certainly, we didn't have that, cuz we didn't have any mobile, or certainly it was in its infancy.

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