Club World Cup - Summer 2025

swintonjamie said:
What an odd way to report on it.GG

Seeing the Flamengo fans around today and how excited they all are for this tournament then seeing ‘our’ media just shows the snobbery

They did a massive piece on Trent’s first match which was strange given they don’t see this as a proper tournament
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The BBC, Guardian and many British media companies are hostile to links between FIFA and Saudi Arabia. Dan Roan wrote an article entitled ''Fifa, the Club World Cup and Saudi Arabia' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjrne75xdqjo explaining this. We can agree or disagree with that view but it seems to be colouring their football coverage. So far the football has been good. The South American clubs are doing very well. The crowds are not brilliant, possibly because many games are played in the early afternoon in the week day, but they are similar to other global football events. The demands of global TV are leading to games through the day. That's not apathy which is the strong BBC line, its just reflects the clash between global time zones and the local time when US fans have leisure time. Regardless of that the South American, Moroccan and Egyptian support has been vibrant and the South American clubs are doing well.

There are issues with rest and the football calendar but the game should be fairly reported. The BBC has decided to denigrate this tournament. It gets easier for them to do that when Liverpool and Man Utd fans would like to believe that it is meaningless. That's their coping mechanism. Most football fans though will be excited by the CWC and that will grow as the competition progresses.
 
Marvin. said:
The BBC, Guardian and many British media companies are hostile to links between FIFA and Saudi Arabia. Dan Roan wrote an article entitled ''Fifa, the Club World Cup and Saudi Arabia' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjrne75xdqjo explaining this. We can agree or disagree with that view but it seems to be colouring their football coverage. So far the football has been good. The South American clubs are doing very well. The crowds are not brilliant, possibly because many games are played in the early afternoon in the week day, but they are similar to other global football events. The demands of global TV are leading to games through the day. That's not apathy which is the strong BBC line, its just reflects the clash between global time zones and the local time when US fans have leisure time. Regardless of that the South American, Moroccan and Egyptian support has been vibrant and the South American clubs are doing well.

There are issues with rest and the football calendar but the game should be fairly reported. The BBC has decided to denigrate this tournament. It gets easier for them to do that when Liverpool and Man Utd fans would like to believe that it is meaningless. That's their coping mechanism. Most football fans though will be excited by the CWC and that will grow as the competition progresses.
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Great post. Virtually everything the BBC produces is politically biased. SKY's motives for attacking the CWC are more commercial because they don't have any broadcast images and DAZN is a rival. Roan is an absolute disgrace. His social media feeds are distorted and twisted to represent his personal political views. People like him are why the BBC has lost all credibility. In the interest of balance I would say that there are still many honest BBC reporters (in London and Salford) who try to be impartial but the overall culture is the problem. It is a management failure and a lot of their own staff there are well aware of it.
 
It looks like Group B is the "Group of Death".

PSG win to go through v Seattle, but if AM win also it will be 3 on 6 points. AM need to beat Botafoga by 2+ to go through.

I don't think a team has ever gone out of a WC on 6 points, there were two 3 x 6 point group games in 1994, however there were 24 teams and Argentina and Belgium who both lost their last games already knew they were through.

In the Euros in 2004 there was a 3 x 5 point group which Italy knew a 2-2 draw in the other match would knock them out no matter how much they won by as head to head was used first by Uefa, and it did.

Warming up a bit now.
 
Well I’m really enjoying the tournament so far….caught about 75% of the games most of which have been entertaining for one reason or another.

Don't listen to the BBC, the average attendance is over 30,000 and will only increase as the tournament progresses it is just that the stadiums are huge.

PSG vs Atletico was over 80,000

The PSG upset against Botafogo has had 665,000 views on YT in 5 hours. The actual attendance was 54,000.

The game is global whether England likes that or not. We are too busy destroying the PL to notice.

If you haven’t caught any games I highly recommend it. If you are part of the Little England nonsense more fool you, if just dont fancy it then fair enough…
 
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LOVING the Club World Cup. What a festival of football on display.

I have my alarm set for 2am every night.

Do not want to miss AC BUMBACLART VS AYE CARUMBA FC

Then the pinnacle game tomorrow GOOSE BALLOON UTD VS MEN WTH BALL CLUB

I'm actually hallucinating from lack of sleep.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Well I’m really enjoying the tournament so far….caught about 75% of the games most of which have been entertaining for one reason or another.

Don't listen to the BBC, the average attendance is over 30,000 and will only increase as the tournament progresses it just that the stadiums are huge.

PSG vs Atletico was over 80,000

If you haven’t caught any games I highly recommend it. If you are part of the Little England nonsense more fool you, if just dont fancy it then fair enough…
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I have watched a lot of matches as well. Benfica/Boca was a classic. Some great football. Much more entertaining than the tedious group stages of international football including the Euros and the WC. The BBC coverage has been dire. Slagging it off at every opportunity instead of concentrating on the football. I can only assume many of their so-called reporters are office-based and don't go to many games. The proper fans seem to be having a fantastic time from what I can see. I am gutted I can't be there for health reasons.
 
citymad said:
They're hurting big time. We'll be hearing crickets if we win the trophy.
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To be fair if we weren't playing I wouldn't be that interested myself.I'd like to win it, but rather we just used it to bed in new players.Don't think the competition is a great idea, wouldn't be upset to see it scrapped.
 
blueparrot said:
To be fair if we weren't playing I wouldn't be that interested myself.I'd like to win it, but rather we just used it to bed in new players.Don't think the competition is a great idea, wouldn't be upset to see it scrapped.
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I feel the same about the Champions League once we get knocked out so you have to allow for personal bias in evaluating its worth. Something the media conspicuously fails to do. A world league of some description is inevitable so I'd much rather we were in the tent pissing out.
 
Newman Noggs said:
I feel the same about the Champions League once we get knocked out so you have to allow for personal bias in evaluating its worth. Something the media conspicuously fails to do. A world league of some description is inevitable so I'd much rather we were in the tent pissing out.
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Not really, I watched the CL semi finals and finals and was interested, doubt I'll watch any CWC games we aren't playing in. Can't see it continuing in this form especially if teams like Madrid, PSG, Bayern, us start to see it impact on their seasons after Christmas and into the latter stages of the CL .
 
blueparrot said:
Not really, I watched the CL semi finals and finals and was interested, doubt I'll watch any CWC games we aren't playing in. Can't see it continuing in this form especially if teams like Madrid, PSG, Bayern, us start to see it impact on their seasons after Christmas and into the latter stages of the CL .
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I see where you are coming from but this tournament is mostly good for us. Several players aside, e.g., Dias, Bernie, Gvardiol..., most players need minutes, e g., those who were injured for prolonged periods, squad players, new players, etc. It will help us start stronger.
 
alexmcity said:
I see where you are coming from but this tournament is mostly good for us. Several players aside, e.g., Dias, Bernie, Gvardiol..., most players need minutes, e g., those who were injured for prolonged periods, squad players, new players, etc. It will help us start stronger.
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I am well into this tournament. Last season I was excited by it, but I worried how our squad could handle the fatigue given we were very stretched. Now its upon us I am thinking about winning a trophy in the face of overwhelming hostility. The BBC seems set against it because they think FIFA is close to Saudi Arabia, and probably they are also playing to the gallery of Liverpool and Man Utd fans who want to rubbish it because they aren't in it.
 
blueparrot said:
Not really, I watched the CL semi finals and finals and was interested, doubt I'll watch any CWC games we aren't playing in. Can't see it continuing in this form especially if teams like Madrid, PSG, Bayern, us start to see it impact on their seasons after Christmas and into the latter stages of the CL .
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Of course, it's a personal choice, but I'd far rather see teams I've never seen before than the usual "top" European suspects. What's not to like about the prospect of playing Boca Juniors ? Al Hilal educated me. I imagined they were crap but they looked far better than I expected against Madrid. Anything that breaks the G14 stranglehold on football is fine with me, in fact, I love it, and the more annoyed the media gets, the more I love it.
 
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