It does not feel as if the biggest sporting event on the planet is about to get underway in Canada. Blame staggering ticket prices, FIFA’s tyrannical resale rules and an unglamorous slate of matches in Toronto and Vancouver — Canada’s participation in three notwithstanding.
Thousands of tickets to the opening game in Toronto remain unsold, and not a single match in either city has sold out. This was predictable, given that top-tier tickets for Canada’s opening match against Bosnia and Herzegovina start at $3,000, and those for other matches in both cities start around $600.
I love the game, played it all through my youth but I would never vote to let FIFA pick my pocket.
Toronto’s Grandees had the city’s bureaucrats literally sneak the World Cup in under the eyes of voters.
Someone is getting paid and it ain’t you and it ain’t me.
The World Cup like tax payer subsidized professional sports stadiums are about making rich people richer with your money.
