David Beckham

Ja Salford Blue said:
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David Beckham hails the World Cup's fan experience as 'exciting'

Former England captain David Beckham has heaped praise on the quality of Qatar's fan experience at the 2022 World Cup .
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I think when people calm down from the fact it was in Qatar, there will be some very interesting takeaways.

There's an increasing number of reports coming back that the very low level of alcohol made it a much more family, and women friendly environment. That's generally a good thing for your flagship event that represents football to the world (and as opposed to very drunk people openly doing cocaine in the streets and sticking flares up their arses before violently attacking stewards at Wembley last summer)

They gave out hundreds of thousands of tickets for the equivalent of £5-10 which allowed people from a class of people who could never afford any other world cup to go.

Having all the stadiums so close was really good for the teams and fans.

The temporary stadium is potentially a game changing invention, allowing countries to host without building permanent white elephants at great public cost.


As for the time of year, it's an incredibly Euro-centric thing to complain about. At least 50% of the world has to abandon their season for every other world cup - North and South America, Australia & NZ, Africa and even Scandinavia and eastern Europe.

Why not flip it around once in a generation and open up hosting to a ton of countries that could never do it in the summer?


Obviously Beckham is still a ****, but I think there's been some interesting lessons from the world cup being in Qatar
 
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domalino said:
I think when people calm down from the fact it was in Qatar, there will be some very interesting takeaways.

There's an increasing number of reports coming back that the very low level of alcohol made it a much more family, and women friendly environment.

They gave out hundreds of thousands of tickets for the equivalent of £5-10 which allowed people from a class of people who could never afford any other world cup to go.

Having all the stadiums so close was really good for the teams and fans.


As for the time of year, it's an incredibly Euro-centric thing to complain about. At least 50% of the world has to abandon their season for every other world cup - North and South America, Australia & NZ, Africa and even Scandinavia and eastern Europe.

Why not flip it around once in a generation and open up hosting to a ton of countries that could never do it in the summer?


Obviously Beckham is still a ****, but I think there's been some interesting lessons from the world cup being in Qatar
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I get what your saying mate, I've really enjoyed it! its just the all faux outrage from the media that winds me up (human and gay rights)? the disgust over FIFA banning rainbow armbands disappeared after the first game. as did the discussions on how many workers died building the stadiums !
 
domalino said:
I think when people calm down from the fact it was in Qatar, there will be some very interesting takeaways.

There's an increasing number of reports coming back that the very low level of alcohol made it a much more family, and women friendly environment. That's generally a good thing for your flagship event that represents football to the world (and as opposed to very drunk people openly doing cocaine in the streets and sticking flares up their arses before violently attacking stewards at Wembley last summer)

They gave out hundreds of thousands of tickets for the equivalent of £5-10 which allowed people from a class of people who could never afford any other world cup to go.

Having all the stadiums so close was really good for the teams and fans.

The temporary stadium is potentially a game changing invention, allowing countries to host without building permanent white elephants at great public cost.


As for the time of year, it's an incredibly Euro-centric thing to complain about. At least 50% of the world has to abandon their season for every other world cup - North and South America, Australia & NZ, Africa and even Scandinavia and eastern Europe.

Why not flip it around once in a generation and open up hosting to a ton of countries that could never do it in the summer?


Obviously Beckham is still a ****, but I think there's been some interesting lessons from the world cup being in Qatar
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It was an incredible tournament that Qatar put on, they should be proud of what they did.

Not heard a bad comment from anyone that went out there unless they were from journalists, media or minority groups looking for a cheap headline.

The Arab world is a very different one to ours but we could learn so much from them, zero tolerance to crime and anti social behavior No1 for me.
 
I think he's alright, remember when he queued for hours with the general public to pay his respects to the Queen lying in state and did it really quietly so as to not draw any attention to himself and therefore not attracting any media interest?

No, me neither.
 
Looby blue said:
I think he's alright, remember when he queued for hours with the general public to pay his respects to the Queen lying in state and did it really quietly so as to not draw any attention to himself and therefore not attracting any media interest?

No, me neither.
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There’s a lot you can have a go at Beckham for, not sure him standing in a que and everyone around him realising it’s David Beckham is one you can have a go at him for, what’s he supposed to do? Wear a mask?
 
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