37 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Yes, the world cup where we all sit down to watch games we could not git a hoot about but do it anyway. 

"We"?? Don’t you mean YOU ? 

 

28 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

They didn't get a cheap price. FIFA didn't play their game. Why would they, only to get everyone else demanding a discount next time? Companies and undisclosed others came up with the cash.

But they did. Cheap deal. 

17 minutes ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

Good Morning,

1.4 Billion Thai Baht for a Soccer Tournament !!?? ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THAILAND !! Why don’t you use the money to help the poor , Or manage flood zones so people don’t have to wade through human sewage , Or establish a Nation Wide Solid waste collection system. 

Us$33m is cheap. Fifa wanted $36m

 

7 hours ago, pegman said:

The part I don't get about soccer is when a player goes down to the ground like he has been shot when an opponent comes within 5' of him.  Game is seemingly devoid of any sort of dignity. In ice hockey our players  continue playing even if they break a bone or two. 

Same here, I prefer Rugby where a player gets a broken finger, tapes it up, and plays on.

Football......A game for gentlemen played by hooligans, Rugby a game for hooligans played by Gentlemen......

7 hours ago, stat said:

Smart move, Germany dumb as ever pays top EUROS and on tops arrive with the biggest media TV team. Meanwhile Germans gladly pay the state broadcaster 19€ per month per household. Thats what the british call dumb money and right they are...

Yes but the Thai bashers on here only attack the Thai deal which would have been amongst the best.

Care factor?   Zero

YOUR GUIDE TO THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2022

 

 

By Editor

 

Fans and football teams have arrived in Qatar, as the Middle Eastern country prepares to host the World Cup 2022, which will start on Sunday 20th November.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1278175-your-guide-to-the-fifa-world-cup-2022/

19 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Same here, I prefer Rugby where a player gets a broken finger, tapes it up, and plays on.

Football......A game for gentlemen played by hooligans, Rugby a game for hooligans played by Gentlemen......

Rugby is boring. League has action.

12 minutes ago, G Rex said:

Care factor?   Zero

Yet you posted on here. So 10%.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2015/01/27/Media/ARD-ZDF-Qatar-2022.aspx

 

Germany signed up early paying 7 times what Thailand is paying 55555

 

Thai bashers should apologise and learn something about bargaining.

I need predictions as to which game of the 64 will be LEAST watched. 

8 hours ago, pegman said:

The part I don't get about soccer is when a player goes down to the ground like he has been shot when an opponent comes within 5' of him.  Game is seemingly devoid of any sort of dignity. In ice hockey our players  continue playing even if they break a bone or two. 

Correct, soccer players are pussies!????

53 minutes ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

Good Morning,

1.4 Billion Thai Baht for a Soccer Tournament !!?? ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THAILAND !! Why don’t you use the money to help the poor , Or manage flood zones so people don’t have to wade through human sewage , Or establish a Nation Wide Solid waste collection system. 

Its 50 cents per person or 17 baht. Good luck helping the poor with 17 baht each 

1 minute ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Correct, soccer players are pussies!????

Milking penalties as hard to score goals.

36 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Us$33m is cheap. Fifa wanted $36m

 

Could have been $5 Mill, still doesn't help the poor?

1 minute ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Could have been $5 Mill, still doesn't help the poor?

Whats $5m going to do for poor? Give a poor person 300 baht its gone in 1 day.

I see lots of so called poor Thais drinking and smoking. 

 

I dont drink much and dont smoke. Cant afford to smoke.

6 hours ago, Aforek said:

"

But then I don't like American football,   too many stops and starts , throwing the ball

forward ,and everyone is tackling each other without the ball,  baseball = rounders

basketball = netball , played mostly by girls where   I come from 

regards worgeordie"

 

Comparing two sports with oval ball, rugby is 1 million times more interesting and intense that American football 

Totally agree. American sports the players dress as if they are going to war with full body armour. They are afraid of getting hurt......Big pussies. Now a game like rugby which is a real man's sport and now it has been shown a game for real women too. They rely on skill to play the game and do not need to wear full body armour. Americans have to use brute force to win games like American football ( played with the hands not their feet )  and ice hocky etc.

33 minutes ago, G Rex said:

Care factor?   Zero

so what are you doing on this thread?!????

1 hour ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

Good Morning,

1.4 Billion Thai Baht for a Soccer Tournament !!?? ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THAILAND !! Why don’t you use the money to help the poor , Or manage flood zones so people don’t have to wade through human sewage , Or establish a Nation Wide Solid waste collection system. 

Probably a face-gaining thing, or placating the masses. ????

Ok halfway there, now we just need the bars to be legally allowed to open (and sell alcohol) for all the matches which will of course help the Thai gov recoup some of this money by the hugely increased spending in these bars that will occur during the world cup period.  

Vote buying with taxpayers money pure and simple.

35 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Rugby is boring. League has action.

 

Dad used to be glued to League, with the late, great Eddie (and 'ere we are at Wigan) Waring.

 

Followed by the wrestling with Kent Walton. 

1.4 billion baht to watch Maguire and Dier?

 

Cheap at the price!

 

6 hours ago, Aforek said:

"

But then I don't like American football,   too many stops and starts , throwing the ball

forward ,and everyone is tackling each other without the ball,  baseball = rounders

basketball = netball , played mostly by girls where   I come from 

regards worgeordie"

 

Comparing two sports with oval ball, rugby is 1 million times more interesting and intense that American football 

Maybe if you understood football in America it may change your mind?

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Not too hard to work out. It’s called tactics, to try to get the ref to call a foul, but is thankfully less an issue nowadays with VAR etc. Anyway, dignity and ice hockey? Isn’t that the hobby where they fight every 5 minutes and dressed up in so much foam that you could drop off a cliff and not be hurt? ????

just like american football players......

11 minutes ago, blackshadow said:

just like american football players......

well when you've got a 300 pound offensive lineman coming at you at lightning speed with the intention of burying you (literally not figuratively) then you need all the big ol' padding you can get your hands on. 

 

Google Reggie White if you don't believe me. 

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Not too hard to work out. It’s called tactics, to try to get the ref to call a foul, but is thankfully less an issue nowadays with VAR etc. Anyway, dignity and ice hockey? Isn’t that the hobby where they fight every 5 minutes and dressed up in so much foam that you could drop off a cliff and not be hurt? ????

Well, no actually, not tactics, just cheating. You don't see rugby players, NFL players, in fact players in any other sport trying it on, faking injuries, arguing with the ref, having tantrums. Footballers, I mean soccer players, in general are a nauseating bunch of massively overpaid prima donnas. Send 'em off!

I have been watching the World Cup since 1954, when it was in Switzerland. Sad to see the quality of football decline since then, now that all the "world" takes part at some stage.

For those who know nothing about football, the only way you can enjoy (even minimally) the World Cup is if you choose a country or countries to follow, support, for whatever weird reason you yourself might have.  Thus a game between a Sunni Moslem state and a Shia might have some ooomf to it.  Or Wales to beat England.   Or Canada to beat USA.  Above all, the first stage will be interesting for these non-soccer reasons:  Also, USA to play one of George Bush's axis of evil, Iran.  Lots of non-football reasons to enjoy a game.

The heat in Qatar will, even now, be overwhelming, so....slow games no doubt.

9 hours ago, matchar said:

So if 15% tax goes to FIFA, to whom does the rest of the money go to...?????

Quatar.  Hosts of the World Cup. They'll still end up losing money but getting lots of International exposure.