Going to the World Cup.?

Who's going to scan all of that?

They'd have to start now, or better still 4 years ago.

VANCE free speech AMERICA, don't say anything naughty about auld ronseal face or you wont get in,I,m sure Joey Barton's Bessie's will be up in arms demanding PUSSEYCAT Vance and trump grow a pair,or maybe not

Barton ain't getting in.

Was banned from USA for Newcastle pre season tour.

As was cabaye as he hadn't paid his dentist bill...

Forum legend nile ranger was banned too, because
of his armed robbery connection.

Where did he go?

It was Newcastle pre season tour of USA.

I think the three banned ones went on tour with the reserves
Maybe somewhere in Europe, but couldn't be sure of that bit.

Advert breaks...

Fifa has announced that water breaks will be enforced during every game at next year’s World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada.
The water breaks will last for three minutes and will be called by referees at the midway point of each half.

America 2 world cups Mexico 3 world cups since England staged one

Heatstroke was a major issue last time the U.S. staged the W.C. ( I am led to believe ) but I can’t help but think this is crass device to a) increase advertising revenues, and, b) turn matches into four period affairs.  Who knows?  Hopefully it does benefit the players who are after all the most important feature of the event.

I think you are spot on.

Water breaks ... "and now a word from our sponsors."
It will end up with 15 minute water breaks.

Gatorade Shirley

we've got pish breaks in EPL currently but in that quaint English way,we call them throw ins and corners

NILE RANGER didn't get in USA, WHAT ABOUT TONTO ?

Onto Toronto pronto tonto...

It should be like baseball: 9 ten-minute innings—one team attacks for 5 minutes and then the other.

Anyone who was thinking of going almost certainly won't now. When I posted about 6 months ago that this was coming  and anyone who has posted a pic of an orange with a wig on wouldn't be allowed in I was derided. Why would anyone spend thousands on air fares ,tickets and hotels only to be turned round due to 1 post  on instagram made 3 years ago?
I wouldn't be allowed in for this post! Welcome to fascist America everyone.

It's like when they tell you there will be ticket checks
and added bag searches, but they don't have time.

Give your email and musk will run it through grok on twitter

There ain't enough people in America to check every
visa applicants social media

By the time they have finished checking the Scots fans' social media, it will be time for them to come home.

5 grand for eng club members for tkts through to final if they get there and 2 grand a night for a room,should be enough to put 99% off travelling

You are a laugh Crisp77.    Not a fan then?

Let's just hope those pr!cks with the trumpets have been mean about Trump online.

Looking at those costs you could go to Cheltenham and stay in the town for the rest of your life .

6 and a half grand for any England members prepared to rough it with grade 3 tkts for the final, going to be loads of empty grounds and cheaper tkts closer to games off tounts/secondary markets,when world cup looks like been a pr disaster for trump and america

my wedding day  cost less than going to watch eng in 2026 world cup in USA  and compared to my marriage it  will be worth every FOOKING penny

as the wife said to me once you love the  boro more than you love me, I said FOOKING boro,I love Sunderland more than I love you

could be last wc as we know it, can see fifa fracturing up.

Why blame Donald ?

Will be enjoy the spectacle of pre-match cheerleaders or will Homer Simpson introduce the players one by one?

The wooden planks should never get another wc after this. But they own 11 out of the required 14 in the PL and already have refs mic'd up like the NFL, so expect 4 x 15 minute clocked quarters with ad breaks before there's another 3 wcs.

It's becoming a rich man's game, and enough rich people
around to keep those prices high for many of those games.

I got another email today offering me to enter a ballot
for the next tranche of tickets.

Roy Keane gave us the nod thirty years ago with “corporate box” and “prawn cocktail” jibes.  It is now entrenched in the game.  Elitism.

Sepp Blutter says
Fans shouldnt go to the usa

Obviously he is famously HONEST!!!

"It's becoming a rich man's game, and enough rich people
around to keep those prices high for many of those games."

Sport is a rich man's game in the USA, and getting more expensive every day.  Politics (and life) in the USA has been run for the elite since the early Eighties.  The average price for an NFL game is $156.  In the Eighties it was $10 to $30 (according to AI)

I remember going to Leeds v Boro or Boro v Leeds in the Old First Division, and it being 60 pence, somewhere prolly between 79-81 (albeit those were the cheapest tickets in the ground and I was under 16)

Ivory Coast, Senegal, Iran and Haiti supporters aren't going to be let in, so Blatter is off to a head start

Ticket prices 1981 First Division
Standing
Arsenal £1.80
Villa £1.50
Birmingham £1.50
Brighton £2.00 joint most expensive in Old First Division!!
Middlesboro £1.30 joint cheapest
Man City £1.30 joint cheapest!!
Man Utd £1.40
Nottm Forest £2.00 Seats £5 most expensive!! That's Clough for you

Now unbelievably, the most expensive standing tickets were in Division Two at an exorbitant price of £2.50!  Doncaster was the cheapest at £1

Freedom of the Betfair Football Forum if anyone gets or knows the answer to which club had the most expensive.

£1 in 1981 is about £3 now

Man City had the cheapest seats at £1.60 and the cheapest Season ticket prices at £26.

£1 in 1981 is worth £3.90 now.  I misread the calculation before

Unreal prices them Clydebank

So you could watch all the teams in the top flight for less than £8 in todays money to stand.

And a max of £20 in todays money for a seat. (Most in the £10 ish bracket in todays money)

Just a rip off today, and still have thousands at the likes of Liverpool unable to get a ticket.

No longer a working mans game. For the rich and tourists nowadays. To get a ticket easy these days at Liverpool you have to pay £180 for a hospitality ticket. Match ticket and a sandwich and 1 drink at a nearby hotel.

Targeted at tourists who may have just 1 chance to watch  a game, and so will pay it.

Remember paying £35 for a seat in
1995 for Spurs vs Pool
Klinsman playing
Missed a pen
Wun the 7-1 odds on the
DRAW!!!

76 cup final £2.50 for standing behind the goal opposite the tunnel end.

Clubs wouldn't survive without cash from supporters.

Ffp stops owners putting cash in to buy players, thus in effect forcing
them to milk fans.

Maybe a football task force would look at that, and allow owners
to add extra funds to make up for reducing supporter prices for tickets.

i was going to anfield in the 80's
kop end 1.50(i was under 16 as well)
and used to get pished on by lazy ****
not going the bog...go in left side
andend up on tother side as was standing
back then, think 18,000 was in kop end
back then

Drug cartel in Mexico are raising
MAYHEM in
Gudajaral

Where the wc been staged

Sounds like its gonna be dodgy
If your going

Do you remember the last USA World Cup in 1994 when Diana Ross "kicked" a penalty in the opening ceremony?
The greatest living American, Donald Trump, put in an appearance at the start of the Ryder Cup.
Donald is certain to feature in the World Cup.
Please, please, please Donald kick a penalty at the 2016 World Cup.
And just to spice it up for his many fans, put Gianni Infantino in goal.

Trump might be in the Scotland squad

LoyalHoncho isn't going to the World Cup, but one of his 20 other usernames could be.

The World Cup is better enjoyed by not going to America and completely ignoring the group stage.

SNC, completely ignoring the group stage is not sound advice for Scotland fans

Scots already have a victory -

The Tartan Army have been given the green light to wear sporrans with their kilts at World Cup matches this summer, the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has confirmed.

Thousands of supporters are expected to travel to the US to cheer on Steve Clarke's side after the men's national team qualified for the first time since 1998.

The World Cup stadium code of conduct states ticket holders are only permitted to bring certain types of bags into stadiums.

Sporrans initially failed to meet the strict security criteria but, following talks between world football's governing body Fifa and the SFA, it has now been agreed fans will be able to wear them.

Why are there co hosts for this world cup , America has 78 of the 104 matches , surely a country the size of America can squeeze in another 26 matches , The 2030 world cup is a joke , 3 matches in South America and the rest in Spain , Portugal and Morocco . also Argentina Paraguay and Uruguay qualify automatically due to the fact they are hosting 1 match , but the real reason is so Saudi Arabia can get the next world cup unopposed due to rotation .

See a UK granny was banged up for 6 weeks in an immigration centre when at the very end of her holiday she was trying to LEAVE the US into Canada and there was something very minor wrong with the paperwork. It's all about the Benjamins for the arresting officers etc.

The cities that Trumps withholding funds from (and some top that aren't) are basically saying very little help or info from fed gov hindering organising and things being descaled.

The best of luck to anyone who goes - it could be a very long and expensive trip!

Lots of Grannys got banged up when Rooney played in America

There has to be more to that granny story. The media will print anything that makes Trump look bad. They may have a prior history of overstaying visas.

There was a story in Ireland recently about a guy who has been locked up over there since last year and he said he had a valid work permit and was married to a US citizen and had applied for a green card in 2025. The media were all over it and even interviewed him over the phone from the detention centre where he said he has never even had a parking ticket over there, a model citizen. Didn't even question him about the 16 years in between.

Turns out he went over there on a 90 day tourist visa in '09, stayed there illegally for 15+ years (overstaying automatically excludes you from seeking naturalisation in the future), was due to be sentenced in Ireland for possession of ecstacy but absconded, lied about this to get his 90 day visa, left a girl pregnant with twins behind him too, has never paid her a penny in maintenance in 18 years and has no relationship with his twin daughters.

Was also previously married over there to a black woman who alleged that he racially abused her before they divorced. There is a valid court order made that he is ready for deportation. The only reason he is still in detention over there is that he refuses to leave despite them offering him $2.6k and paying for his flights. The media swallowed his BS whole and have actually made Trump look good. The public have zero sympathy for him and want him deported back here and sentenced for his drugs charges.

No shortage of stuff to make Trump look bad

He provides daily help of his own to press.

I’m sure most fans would rather get banged up in the USA than get banged up and hanging from a bridge in delightful Mexico.

Trump needs zero help in making himself look bad. Why is it weird and 'more to it' when white people are now beng treated the same as brown people in the uS immigration system?

You don't get arrested and locked up for months for no reason. I've seen it suggested that the woman's husband was living and working over there illegally for more than a decade, that she'd previously overstayed a visa and been banned for 10 years which expired in 2023 and she couldn't explain the basis of her being there when stopped by ICE.

ICE will come out with some sort of a response to that article in the coming days. Guarantee it won't look like her version of events when they do.

They do have a task force that targets white immigrants called Vanilla ICE and they are getting a bad rap.

You don't get arrested and locked up for months for no reason

You do if every single person gets a bonus per body due to the obscene amounts of money now corrupting the system. The border guard, he believes you and lets you go, he gets nowt, he ignores the obvious truth and arrests, he gets dosh and then every one down the food chain gets some. all in or why have the job?
It's basically how the Us judicial system has worked forever, now it is in immigration. Wait until they start ordering detainees to work for nowt or 'slavery' as the rest of the world calls it - again what the us judicial system is run on.

Iran might be giving it a miss

Spyker are you swallowing what the granny says whole?
On what basis are you claiming they get a bonus per body? They get bonuses for joining but that's not the same thing.

That legal training appears to have been wasted.

You don't have a clue about the legalities. They got her on a technicality, harshly, when she re-entered after being refused by Canada. But it looks like her husband overstayed a visa and worked over there for 20 years illegally and she visited him multiple times and overstayed visas previously.

You see Trump stand for election and you are near retirement age, hope he doesn't win, then he does and you still have 2 months to leg it. Then you get the wife over for a last visit touring the country one more time and fúck up the paperwork for your car. I have no sympathy for morons like this and neither do the majority. There are people who were wrongly detained and imprisoned but not for 6 weeks without reason.

6 weeks detention with valid visa and passport.

For helping him pack his suitcase, lol, a technicality,...indeed.

Helping him enter from Canada. A specific offence under their immigration laws. You believe the word of her saying it was for packing a suitcase. It very likely wasn't on that basis. That's my point. Stop swallowing the words of a known visa overstayer whose husband is a 20 year illegal who she's visited and overstayed multiple times.

Ask yourself why they haven't questioned his visa status after 20 years in that article? Why hasn't he been naturalised after 20 years? Why does she need a holiday visa to visit him if he's been there 20 years and is his wife? Basic journalism/obvious questions you ask before printing that are completely absent from that article.

Obama deported 3m in 8 years and it wasn't questioned.

She ain't responsible for him, they never got into Canada, as you know.

So re entering USA, from USA, and her visa was valid, his was not.

She had a previous offence, and served a ban, and obtained
new visa.

They could have deported her, on the technicality,
which of course they did after being locked up for 6 weeks.

She's warning folk, rightly so, about USA.

They more or less asked her to do so by the treatment of her.

Seemingly he was detained for same amount of time
as she was for their various "crimes"

They crossed into Canadian territory, were refused and tried to re-enter the US. There is a distance between the border guards, they aren't right up against each other, as I said, a technicality.

She didn't explain the status of her being on US soil legally when they asked her, so they detained her. Aiding and abetting an illegal (her husband) invalidates any visa she had (the law). They got her on that and she doesn't have a leg to stand on. She's a complete moron and has no regard for US law and doesn't deserve any sympathy.

The US has always had strict immigration laws. Boxers and musicians have been banned from performing there. Just because one President completely disregards the law and opens the borders to at least 4 times the illegals, doesn't make the next president who tries to correct that a bad person. That is actually the proper thing to do.

As I said Obama deported 3m. Hillary Clinton campaigned on deporting illegals. It is not some extremist policy generally but reversal of it is over there after what Biden did. It is happening all over Europe too and it is not extremist there either, just smart and logical policy that has been in place for hundreds of years in the first world. The only people who benefit from it are employers and landlords, slum living and working conditions suit them.

You are conflating locking up a person, for 6 weeks, legally in a country
with a rant on migration.

Its not just her is it lurka ther's Germans. Irish, Aussies (no Isrealis or SA), some who had a very minor thing wrong some with nowt. Either way you have to be pretty dumb to think whatever this granny did, the best way to handle it is to lock her up for 6 weeks. that is where America is atm  She signed on to an early release scheme very early where thy geve her 1k  but they still kept her there passing her from place to place, it all costs. Many (linked to Trump) are making a lot of money out of this - are you saying there isn't all this $ in the system being wasted - what is it there for?

BTW the nhs down south will fail when all the immigrants have gone - its very simple demographics. the baby boomer generation have left Europe but esp the UK in an almighty mess and watching you all die horrible deaths with no care is going to be interesting. BB motto will be:

'My bum hasn't been wiped for a week but at least no brown person has wiped it'

Ss you sit in your own sheet..........

Guess what -  this country has always needed immigration - pretty much every single country does at some point. Go on, read up!

It’s not the genuine migrants who want to work here and contribute to society, anyone with a brain is concerned about, thicko virtue signalling loony lefty.

It’s the 1000s of ILLEGAL immigrants who are entering countries ILLEGALLY, with no intention of working and contributing but instead cause terror and trauma weekly as the facts show.

Sorry, she's technically not legally in the country if she re-enters from Canada with an illegal (her husband). Her visa conditions are breached at that point and she is there illegally at that point. That is the law, look it up if you don't believe me. A technicality, but a lawful arrest all the same. I don't get the sympathy for her and that Guardian article says things like 'her husband's visa had expired' but doesn't tell you that was TWENTY years ago. Completely disingenuous nonsense and I wouldn't believe a word she says.

A lot of the recent immigrants are doing the types of jobs teenagers and students did part-time not too long ago but they were all already housed. It's a race to the bottom, the landlord and employer class benefit greatly it drives up the cost of living for everyone else and puts a massive burden on public services, welfare and health in particular.

You talk about the NHS like it's some excellently run service with no waste. In reality it's been run down deliberately for decades with a view to privatising it. And when you bring in immigrants en masse from the third world, who have poor health relatively and have them working & living in v poor conditions with poor nutrition, that is going to massively outweigh any positive impact from a handful of them working in the NHS.

Quite different to your earlier rant...

There has to be more to that granny story. The media will print anything that makes Trump look bad. They may have a prior history of overstaying visas.

There was a story in Ireland recently about a guy who has been locked up over there since last year and he said he had a valid work permit and was married to a US citizen and had applied for a green card in 2025. The media were all over it and even interviewed him over the phone from the detention centre where he said he has never even had a parking ticket over there, a model citizen. Didn't even question him about the 16 years in between.

Turns out he went over there on a 90 day tourist visa in '09, stayed there illegally for 15+ years (overstaying automatically excludes you from seeking naturalisation in the future), was due to be sentenced in Ireland for possession of ecstacy but absconded, lied about this to get his 90 day visa, left a girl pregnant with twins behind him too, has never paid her a penny in maintenance in 18 years and has no relationship with his twin daughters.

Was also previously married over there to a black woman who alleged that he racially abused her before they divorced. There is a valid court order made that he is ready for deportation. The only reason he is still in detention over there is that he refuses to leave despite them offering him $2.6k and paying for his flights. The media swallowed his BS whole and have actually made Trump look good. The public have zero sympathy for him and want him deported back here and sentenced for his drugs charges.


She's locked up for 6 weeks on a technicality,

And rightly publicising the situation whilst a legally trained person
digs holes on the forum, defending his love, donald Trump.

In reality it's been run down deliberately for decades with a view to privatising it. And when you bring in immigrants en masse from the third world, who have poor health relatively and have them working & living in v poor conditions with poor nutrition, that is going to massively outweigh any positive impact from a handful of them working in the NHS.

imagine if Brexit hadn't got rid of most of the white, healthy hard working (but still unacceptable to brexit voters) eastern europeans who all left and were replaced (as foretold by pretty much everyone who voted remain) by these brown immigrants. Brexit completely negates whatever your argument is (and is part of the cause of)  the present situation - that is impossible to contend.

I hope the usa gets
TOASTED

In fact badly burnt in the wc

You being getting more FUTBOL
New rules to operate

1)Player subed has only 10 secs to leave
Otherwise a 1 minute substion

2)Only 5 SECS FOR throws
Otherwise opposition have the ball

Seems there might be quite a few spare tickets available
Just over 50% sold for the opening game involving the
USA-with 70k capacity

Orange blob having a MARE

As always there is no thought or consideration for the fans , Imagine being a Czech Republic supporter , your first game is in Mexico , then the next is Atlanta , and then of course back to Mexico , surely it should have been all groups have 2 locations close together for the whole group .

Trump trying to get Italy to the wc

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Fans banned from brining in WATER to the stadium
Instead they have to pay $6 dollars a
BOTTLE

Gonna be a medical incidence with this HEAT

Not sure why thought of folk passing out through  the lack of water deserves a laughing emoji.?

FIFA done a
U TURN
Allowing 1 bottle in

Sounds Keir Starmer vibes

When you look at the group fixtures , they are crazy and you wonder how fifa agreed to them , zero thought for the fans , group a 5 games in mexico but for some reason 1 in atlanta , so
czech rep and south africa fans games are mexico , atalanta and then back to mexico , group b 3 games for canada but the other 3 games in usa so back and forwards for the other fans , group e 5 games in usa but again for some reason 1 game in toronto , germany and ivory coast fans , usa then up to toronto before back to the usa . japan fans 1st game arlington then off to mexico before last game in arlington . and they then wonder why the tickets are not selling

Seems beer costs £12.50 in the stadiums
WOT

And add a TIP!!!

Rip OFF USA

"FIFA can confirm that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States.

Iran fans are having their tickets cancelled
FIFA are absolute BS

There are a few Scottish fans had their esta revoked at
short notice... Absolute disgrace

Senegal team detained at passport control for 10 HOURS
While they were strip SEARCHED

Ref who was denied entry handed by UEFA the super cup match

He can then CHILL out!!!

Thousand of empty seats re the opening matches
Average monthly salary in M E X I C O
is just £750
The same cost as the opening match was priced

English supporters got in free in the opening game
Seems security isnt that great
Probably Scallys!!!