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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.