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nuxvomica

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22. Britbox has an hilarious series on planning the World Cup

Sun May 24, 2026, 06:04 PM

12 hrs ago

It's fictional and staged as a documentary narrated by David Tennant, focusing on Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) who is hired as "Director of Integrity", a joke all by itself considering FIFA's history. It's a sequel to W1A (Ian at the BBC) and Twenty Twelve (Ian planning the London Olympics).

That aside, FIFA has a bad reputation to begin with but the whole peace-prize crap dug them in deeper.

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Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout [View all] BlueWavePsych 15 hrs ago OP

Kansas City is interesting Renew Deal 14 hrs ago #1

I live relatively near KC indusurb 10 hrs ago #33

This is being discussed across the planet malaise 14 hrs ago #2

Understandibly Renew Deal 14 hrs ago #3

You nailed it malaise 14 hrs ago #4

Not only did you nail it with all the governmental misuse of power... slightlv 12 hrs ago #26

We are not bdamomma 10 hrs ago #35

How about the rooms in Canada and Mexico? You know, the countries without Trump. dem4decades 14 hrs ago #5

Not great here as well. Disaffected 13 hrs ago #8

Maybe so, but what about Mexico? TheRickles 12 hrs ago #16

I dunno, never been there. Disaffected 10 hrs ago #34

Toronto has not seen a surge in hotel bookings. Wiz Imp 12 hrs ago #19

Majority of unsold game tickets are in the US. Wiz Imp 12 hrs ago #20

But FIFA has relased 40% of the hotel bookings for Mexico City TheRickles 9 hrs ago #37

That's not many unsold tickets RussBLib 9 hrs ago #39

I believe those numbers are very misleading. Wiz Imp 8 hrs ago #44

who knew a government behaving like fascists could be a bad thing Skittles 13 hrs ago #6

Not surprising, folks don't want to get tossed Disaffected 13 hrs ago #7

Hockey. Now there's a sport! paleotn 13 hrs ago #11

YES! Disaffected 10 hrs ago #30

I've listed ways to improve soccer in the past. cab67 12 hrs ago #15

Boring 😳❗️ La Urraca 11 hrs ago #27

Meh, Disaffected 10 hrs ago #31

If you've ever watched a football game in a pub GenThePerservering 6 hrs ago #48

Are they boycotting . . . AverageOldGuy 13 hrs ago #9

By my count, 78 of the 104 total games are in the US. That's exactly 75%. Wiz Imp 12 hrs ago #18

America is back baby! MAGA! IronLionZion 13 hrs ago #10

This does not surprise me one bit. ShazzieB 13 hrs ago #12

was going to say this. cab67 12 hrs ago #14

Go figure orangecrush 13 hrs ago #13

if I didn't live here, barbtries 12 hrs ago #17

We bdamomma 10 hrs ago #36

There are two reasons for this jmowreader 12 hrs ago #21

Bizarre. Disaffected 10 hrs ago #32

Yep. Insane prices awesomerwb1 7 hrs ago #46

Britbox has an hilarious series on planning the World Cup nuxvomica 12 hrs ago #22

I have BritBox and will have to check it out. Thanks! IronLionZion 9 hrs ago #40

No surprise. Joinfortmill 12 hrs ago #23

I'd say Trump fucking the world over is main reason pfitz59 12 hrs ago #24

Just an idea to boost ticket sales.. Permanut 12 hrs ago #25

Something that might actually work better jmowreader 8 hrs ago #43

Most of them are sanctuary cities. Trump threatened to divert planes IcyPeas 11 hrs ago #28

Don't know about other cities edhopper 11 hrs ago #29

in Los Angeles, too MurrayDelph 9 hrs ago #42

You just had to go elect the fucking asshole a second time. Initech 9 hrs ago #38

Where they stand? RussBLib 9 hrs ago #41

Gosh! It's almost as if soccer fans around the world had decided not to visit the USA struggle4progress 8 hrs ago #45

I wonder who Trump will decide to blame the poor turnout on. ShazzieB 6 hrs ago #47

I'm north of Seattle and this is a soccer loving area GenThePerservering 6 hrs ago #49