Craig Burley

The US should still, should, it would be a big question if they didn't, they should still have the bulk of, you know, 100,000 fans or whatever it is wanting to turn up, notwithstanding those festivals and watch parties and blah, blah, blah.

And so it is...

arguably more important, particularly for the homegrown player, that their supporters are getting value for money.

And when I'm seeing some of the tickets, and I'm not looking a lot, but I've looked a little bit for some Scotland games and some other stuff, when I'm thinking about tickets even at $200, $300, $400, $500, I'm thinking that's, even for an average family of three or four,

I'm thinking a couple of thousand dollars for four tickets for an average family is still pretty expensive.

And that's right on the cheap side.

And that is, by the way, you are pulling the air vents off and trying to look in at that.

So when you're talking about potentially sitting in the gods at 1,500 a ticket and maybe more, and you're looking at 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 to 10,000 just for the average family of four,

That's like a... That's a summer holiday that they never had.

That's a car.

That's part of tuition fees.

I mean, we are... It's a crazy amount of money.

And if...

If FIFA don't recognise this and keep pushing it, I think there's going to be, at some point, a real backlash.

Because you can't have all the toffs going to the game.

It can't just be every damn millionaire in the country who's buying tickets for their family.

Because you're not telling me every football fan, and I'm talking about every country here,

Not every football fan is a self-made individual with pots of cash.

Most of them are not.

And so to try and price, or not to try, but to price a lot of these people out, or drive them to almost be potless to watch a football game,