Club World Cup - Summer 2025

Can we fix the typo in the news item on the blue moon homepage re the CWC? It’s annoying the living daylights out of me “Blus”
 
In the BBC Live Feed they have a section describing the CWC as a tournament marred with problems:
  • Unfavourable weather conditions
  • Uneven interest in the tournament
  • Huge gulf in quality of teams
  • Fixture congestion and player burnout
  • Politicisation of the sport
  • Rich clubs getting even richer
They seem to have conceded then that there are some well attended games.

Some of the points are valid but the politicisation that the BBC are referring to is a minority stake that a Saudi investment fund has in DAZN the broadcaster. We are supposed to be horrified by this. I am not. The UK is global decline but it can hardly condemn the Saudi state after Britain's role in the middle-east. The BBC's editorial role reflects their imperial political view of the world.
 
Marvin. said:
In the BBC Live Feed they have a section describing the CWC as a tournament marred with problems:
  • Unfavourable weather conditions
  • Uneven interest in the tournament
  • Huge gulf in quality of teams
  • Fixture congestion and player burnout
  • Politicisation of the sport
  • Rich clubs getting even richer
They seem to have conceded then that there are some well attended games.

Some of the points are valid but the politicisation that the BBC are referring to is a minority stake that a Saudi investment fund has in DAZN the broadcaster. We are supposed to be horrified by this. I am not. The UK is global decline but it can hardly condemn the Saudi state after Britain's role in the middle-east. The BBC's editorial role reflects their imperial political view of the world.
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All of us on here know where the, 'uneven interest' stems from.
 
RobinHood said:
All of us on here know where the, 'uneven interest' stems from.
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There are only 20 countries represented, and only small pockets of those countries.

It is always going to have uneven interest. If England had a bid in for a WC or CWC it would be different.

Remember the 1987 Rugby Union first ever world cup and how that was derided? Come 1991 and it was the most important tournament in the world according to the save divs, even composed a classical song to pretend it was a real world cup copying of italia 1990's use of Puccini. 4 years from nothing comp to a marketing pile on.
 
Don't know about the BBC's lack of interest in this, but I only just remembered we'd played this morning when I noticed the Juve game in my calendar...

I'd like to keep the gold badge and the cash is nice, but a global Community Shield in terms of significance.
 
Marvin. said:
In the BBC Live Feed they have a section describing the CWC as a tournament marred with problems:
  • Unfavourable weather conditions
  • Uneven interest in the tournament
  • Huge gulf in quality of teams
  • Fixture congestion and player burnout
  • Politicisation of the sport
  • Rich clubs getting even richer
They seem to have conceded then that there are some well attended games.

Some of the points are valid but the politicisation that the BBC are referring to is a minority stake that a Saudi investment fund has in DAZN the broadcaster. We are supposed to be horrified by this. I am not. The UK is global decline but it can hardly condemn the Saudi state after Britain's role in the middle-east. The BBC's editorial role reflects their imperial political view of the world.
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It's funny how many articles and conversations there are all over the internet and social media about how absolutely no one is interested in the CWC! In my experience, things that aren't of interest don't usually get talked about at all.

This is the first version of an expanded tournament. The media darlings aren't playing in it because they've been too shit to qualify. The group stages reflect the same sort of interest the CL group stages used to get. You get one or two groups where there's a surprise and the rest are the stronger teams qualifying - as expected. Then the last 16 sees a similar story before you're into the juicy fixtures later in the competition. That's exactly how this tournament will go.

The previous format never garnered any attention.

As for low attendances - if the final was at 2am they'd be whingeing about that. A kick off in the middle of the day is shit for local fans but good for European audiences at home. I doubt many English fans would turn up to watch their team play at 3pm on a Monday. Chelsea could play LAFC at Stamford Bridge on a Saturday at 3pm and it wouldn't sell out. The weather is the weather. Seen plenty of English games called off thanks to rain or snow before, so not sure what they expect the competition to do about that.
 
Blue Since 76 said:
Don't know about the BBC's lack of interest in this, but I only just remembered we'd played this morning when I noticed the Juve game in my calendar...

I'd like to keep the gold badge and the cash is nice, but a global Community Shield in terms of significance.
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Seen as Real are wearing a badge now it could be interesting if PSG won it or Real M. Can a shirt have both IC and CWC badges?
 
Keepingthefaithsince1976 said:
There are games on at 8pm tonight tomorrow and Wednesday on 5action channel 33 so hopefully they will schedule Thursday city v juve as well.
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Very unlikely.


This was the original23 games as published by C5, and they even state 5action:

Fixtures on 5:
Inter Miami v Al Ahly 14th June – On 5 - 00.00
Bayern M v Auckland 15th June - On 5 -16:00
Chelsea v LAFC 16th June - On 5 - 19:00
Benfica v Boca Juniors 16th June - On 5 - 22:45
Fluminese v Borussia Dortmund 17th June – On 5 - 16:00
Man City v Wydad 18th June - On 5 - 16:00
Real Madrid v Al Hilal 18th June - On 5 - 19:30
Bayern M v Boca 20th June - On 5 - 01:30
Inter Milan v Urawa Red Diamonds 21st June - 5Action - 19:30
Juventus v Wydad 22nd June - On 5 - 16:30
Man City v Al Ain 22nd June - On 5 - 01:15
Atletico de Madrid v Botafogo 23rd June - 5Action - 19:00
Auckland City v Boca Juniors 24th June -5Action - 19:45
Chelsea v Tunis 24th June - On 5 - 01:00
Borussia Dortmund v Ulsan HD FC 25th June - 5Action - 19:00
FIFA Club WC R16 29th June
FIFA Club WC R16 29th June
FIFA Club WC R16 30th June
FIFA Club WC R16 30th June (City if win group actually 2am BST 01 July, not on 5 if second)
FIFA Club WC QF 4th July (2 fixtures this date, will play this date if 1st in group and progress 50% chance on 5)
FIFA Club WC QF 5th July (2 fixtures this date, will play this date if 2nd in group and progress 50% chance on 5)
FIFA Club WC SF 9th July (can only play this game if 2nd, would play 8th July if 1st)
FIFA Club WC FINAL 13th July

If City win group last 16 on 5, and then 50/50 until 100% final. If not all 50/50 until 100% final.
 
Now FIFA on our case not even a foul gets sent off now Rico has extra 2 game ban ffs
 
Rico given an additional two game ban for a challenge where he was first to the ball by a long way and the subsequent contact was clearly accidental? Not that he’d necessarily have played in these games, but an unbelievable decision by the authorities.
 
Tbilisi said:
Would be great to play a South American team, if results were to fall we could still play Fluminense or River in the Quarters.
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Fluminense fans are the scousers/United fans of South America the cockiness of them in Saudi was unbelievable thought they just had to turn up
 
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