GordonS Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Opening game to be held in Mexico City, final in New Jersey. First final played at a stadium without a roof since the last time it was in the USA. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68200774 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 8 minutes ago, GordonS said: Opening game to be held in Mexico City, final in New Jersey. First final played at a stadium without a roof since the last time it was in the USA. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68200774 Hope FIFA can persuade The Donald to avoid invading Mexico until after their hosting duties are over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Opening game on Thursday; also unusual distributions... ... only 2 games per day for first 2 days of groupstage; then 4 games per day for rest of matchdays 1 & 2; then 6 games per day (at 3 times) for matchdays 3 ... Round of 32 spread over 6 days (only 1 game on day 1 being Sunday 28th June) ... QFs spread over 3 days (only 1 game on days 1 & 2) ... no games on Sunday 12th July 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 54 minutes ago, GordonS said: Opening game to be held in Mexico City, final in New Jersey. First final played at a stadium without a roof since the last time it was in the USA. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68200774 Is that right? They were saying the other day that if Dallas was selected it would have been the first indoor World Cup final. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said: Football feast! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Sanchez Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I'm surprised they aren't having the final at So-Fi. I wonder what the criteria were for choosing. It would be played in daylight whichever time zone it was in, if they aimed for European prime time, as they usually do. I see the BBC haven't noticed that Giants Stadium was demolished years ago and MetLife is a different ground on a different footprint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Patterson Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said: ... no games on Sunday 12th July Nice of FIFA to consider Northern Ireland fans 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 This has probably already come up and I've just forgotten due to advancing senility, but Mexico and Canada get 13 games each, while the Americans get three times their total combined? Pfft. A proper football body would just award the tournament to Mexico in perpetuity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) 28 minutes ago, BFTD said: This has probably already come up and I've just forgotten due to advancing senility, but Mexico and Canada get 13 games each, while the Americans get three times their total combined? Pfft. A proper football body would just award the tournament to Mexico in perpetuity. Average matches held by stadiums per country:- USA 7.1 games / stadium Canada 6.5 Mexico 4.3 Seems a bit rough on the Mexicans but they have got to host it twice already. Edited February 5 by Lurkst 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 2 hours ago, JS_FFC said: Is that right? They were saying the other day that if Dallas was selected it would have been the first indoor World Cup final. They're both right. I think they mean without any cover as opposed to a fully closing roof. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 7 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said: I'm surprised they aren't having the final at So-Fi. I wonder what the criteria were for choosing. It would be played in daylight whichever time zone it was in, if they aimed for European prime time, as they usually do. Recently the final has been at 4pm uk time. I don't think tht will happen now otherwise you'd be playing it at 11am local time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) It was 8 PM (4 PM local) last time it was in the Americas (Rio). Would imagine 3 PM local/8 PM UK for New Jersey. Edited February 5 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, Bully Wee Villa said: It was 8 PM (4 PM local) last time it was in the Americas (Rio). Would imagine 3 PM local/8 PM UK for New Jersey. That one didn't seem as early with it being in the winter. 1994 was the last non floodlit final. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 10 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said: I'm surprised they aren't having the final at So-Fi. I wonder what the criteria were for choosing. It would be played in daylight whichever time zone it was in, if they aimed for European prime time, as they usually do. I see the BBC haven't noticed that Giants Stadium was demolished years ago and MetLife is a different ground on a different footprint. SoFi in Los Angeles is an amazing stadium, far better than the utilitarian Met Life with no cover. It's incredible they built a stadium with no cover for a winter sport in a city that gets rough winters. Not one of the 12 stadiums picked were used in 1994. New Jersey and Boston(ish) are both new builds in the car parks of the previous stadiums, which each lasted 30-35 years before being demolished. 'Murica. 12 hours ago, JS_FFC said: Is that right? They were saying the other day that if Dallas was selected it would have been the first indoor World Cup final. I think the organisers put forward New Jersey and Dallas as options for the final and FIFA chose New Jersey. Maybe they prefer the idea of being in New York. That'll be nice, they'll appreciate it when Trump is handing over the trophy in his home city. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Roofless stadiums in the USA for a World Cup in the middle of summer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) This will be an awful World Cup, (mostly) in an awful country. I will not be watching a single game. Edited February 5 by MazzyStar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, MazzyStar said: This will be an awful World Cup, (mostly) in an awful country. I will not be watching a single game. ^^^ delayed post from November 2022 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 12 minutes ago, BFTD said: ^^^ delayed post from November 2022 No Qatari ever called me “Bri’ish” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Pretty clear that Mexico have only been given 2 stadiums worth of games but they've been split across 3 venues (each Mexican ground has only 4 or 5 games while every other stadium get 6 or 7... indeed New York, Los Angeles and Atalanta get 8 while whoever negotiated for Dallas has managed to bag 9 which is more than Guadaljara + Monterrey combined). Startling how little they or Canada are involved though... each receive only 2x Last 32 and 1x Last 16 ties, no ties at all thereafter, with a sop of the Mexicans getting the opening match. Very much USA with some bolt-ons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) It's shit. Canada is the best of the three from a climate point of view while Mexico is the best for potentially mad fans. USA is very meh. Mexico and Canada should really have demanded at least 25% of the tournament each or told the US they wouldn't vote for their bid. Shitebags. Edited February 5 by Bully Wee Villa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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