Steve McClaren’s Jamaica fall to much lower ranked Guatemala in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. I only saw the second half but thry looked poor and disjointed.
"Weird" doesn't do it justice. It's flat out bonkers. UEFA only sending two teams per country max, yet there's 4 Brazilian teams. Salzburg having only once qualified for the CL knockout phase. Chelsea by winning the CL 4 years ago, despite not qualifying for it the last two seasons. Juventus haven't got past the last 16 in the CL since 2019
1934915830355013695 is not a valid tweet id Thats a pretty good figure for the Chelsea match on Channel 5.
It depends what it is in comparison with. Hard to measure considering this type of tournament. I would probably expect more on free to air TV for an English club senior team in a competitive tournament when there is literally nothing else on TV. Considering the whole thing has been pretty much gifted to Channel 5 through Saudi money I am sure they are happy. England U21’s beat Harry Kane’s Bayern Munich when both games were on at the same time. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-lafc-club-world-cup-35402879
Not a surprise. Look at what they normally show at the same time. Things like cheaply made shows gossiping about the Royal Family.
True and also the demographics are probably a lot better commercially for C5. If the final wasn’t directly clashing with England v Wales at the Women’s Euros as well as potentially the end of the Men’s final at Wimbledon the final could have got 2 million plus.
And stupid rubbish dump shows. Channel 5 has always been a joke Channel. Remember their first ever England game against Poland with the 'ready steady Teddy ' quote. Though he's come a long way that commentator. Forgot his name
3,400 official attendance for the Ulsan Vs Mamelodi match, and I'm guessing that's based on tickets sold rather than people who actually turned up based on the photos I've seen
Fenway Sports Group, the owner of Liverpool, has turned its attention to the LaLiga side Getafe as it looks to develop a multi-club model. (The Times)
Only 40k for Monterey v Inter which was played at 6pm in LA which has a very large Mexican community. Ticket prices must be to blame. Be interesting to see what next year’s World Cup manages for the lesser attractive group stage fixtures. The talk is majority of European team fixtures will be played in the daytime local hours so they not the middle of the night in Europe.
I doubt the World Cup will struggle. It's an event of historic global prestige. Why would the average American care about the Club World Cup when fans in Europe's most football-mad countries don't?
Ticket Prices could put people off as well as possible lower levels of travelling fans than expected. Still they did get incredible turnouts in 1994 and are using some smaller venues this time so non sells outs would be bad.
The world cup will be fine, its like the Olympics, even people who aren't interested in the sport will become interested for a world cup. With the expansion to 48 teams some of the games will invariably struggle to fill stadiums, but that would be the case anywhere. I'd still expect plenty of people to travel too, maybe not as many as would have done previously but certainly European fans will likely be there in force. It'll be way higher tourist numbers than some of the more recent world cups, especially South Africa. You need to put numbers in perspective, tourism to the US has declined, but its still very high in the most visited countries on the planet.