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Laura Williamson

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251 total appearances

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

We've covered this extensively because, again, from a sort of British perspective, if you like, of being able to get a Β£5 ticket to get a bus or a train to a stadium, etc.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

The idea of being charged, I think it's $80 to get from Boston to Foxborough.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Actually, Scotland have a game there.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Or it's now down, in inverted commas, from $150 to $98 to get from Penn Station to MetLife.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

And you have to pre-book as well.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

That's, again, another cost that people are just not prepared to pay.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

And I think when you package all of that together, visas, tickets, hotel prices...

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Sort of the image of America geopolitically and globally, the cost of actually getting to the games.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Then we haven't even talked about water.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

We've had the Watergate scandal this week.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

I think it is off-putting for a lot of people.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

You can.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Not to the stadiums in Mexico, but you can into the US and Canada.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

Up to, I think, 20 ounces, sort of soft plastic bottles, which I think has been a relief for lots of people because another thing we haven't mentioned is the heat.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

The games, especially in the latter stages, the final kicks off at 3 p.m.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

local time, which it will either storm or it will be burning hot.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

So absolutely fans need to have water, as do the players, of course.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

That's it.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

That's it.

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How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

And I think some of the reporting around that change in the rules was confusing as well because it was like, oh, you know, they've waived all the bonds.