Gary Lineker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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But also, let's not go back too far, but let's go to 2014 in Brazil.
All the fans with thousands and thousands of people on the streets demonstrating the fact that
that they're spending so much money on the World Cup stadiums, et cetera, rather than the infrastructure and perhaps the health service in Brazil.
Roll on four years, we're in Russia.
Four years previously, they'd invaded Crimea.
So that was a massive concern.
When we go on to Qatar and there was concerns about LGBTQ plus rights, people had been dying, building the stadiums.
But again, going into this one, we were obviously worried about the situation, who's going to be allowed into this country, which we never had before.
We did have concerns, obviously,
when the referee, the Somalian referee, wasn't allowed in.
But, you know, everyone was worried about ice taking fans off the streets, but that's thankfully not really transpired.
So, yeah, it was ever thus, really.
And, you know, during the World Cups, there are always things that you don't like, and there's been things like,
You said the ticket price, and I think it's outrageous.
FIFA is supposed to be a non-for-profit organization.
They've got billions of pounds or dollars or euros in Swiss banks.
And obviously, they always say it goes back into the game, and a lot of it, of course, does.
But I don't think it's right when you've got something as special as a World Cup.
that profit becomes the most important thing rather than the experience of football fans.
I don't think it's right that fans should have to take out a mortgage or sell their car to get a ticket to go and watch a football match.
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