Jute Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 I see the yanks are just using this tournament as an excuse to fleece folk at every turn. Both Boston and New Jersey charging massive mark ups on on transport to stadiums in Foxboro and New Jersey. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/17/new-jersey-world-cup-matches-train-ticket-prices https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly797p1399o Can see this being a terrible World Cup to attend as a fan. Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/
tlg1903 Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 3 hours ago, Jute said: I see the yanks are just using this tournament as an excuse to fleece folk at every turn. Both Boston and New Jersey charging massive mark ups on on transport to stadiums in Foxboro and New Jersey. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/17/new-jersey-world-cup-matches-train-ticket-prices https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly797p1399o Can see this being a terrible World Cup to attend as a fan. Agreed and I'm going. Genuinely starting to regret it a wee bit now Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282580
OrlandoDon Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 5 hours ago, Jute said: I see the yanks are just using this tournament as an excuse to fleece folk at every turn. Both Boston and New Jersey charging massive mark ups on on transport to stadiums in Foxboro and New Jersey. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/17/new-jersey-world-cup-matches-train-ticket-prices https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly797p1399o Can see this being a terrible World Cup to attend as a fan. I don’t see it as just the yanks. It’s modern football. Tickets, travel, trains, food at games etc, everything is jacked up. Not a fans game any more. 1 Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282581
RicoS321 Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 4 hours ago, OrlandoDon said: I don’t see it as just the yanks. It’s modern football. Tickets, travel, trains, food at games etc, everything is jacked up. Not a fans game any more. I get discount on first bus for attending a Dons game. In the European based world cups, transport is always cheap to games. It does seem like the yanks are making an extra big effort to coin it in here. Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282583
Jute Posted April 19 Author Report Share Posted April 19 9 hours ago, OrlandoDon said: I don’t see it as just the yanks. It’s modern football. Tickets, travel, trains, food at games etc, everything is jacked up. Not a fans game any more. At last Euros in Germany the transport from the city centre to stadiums was free. We also got discounted travel between cities on trains. ETA - Actually the transport on match day at the Euros was free in the region. For example for first game in Munich I stayed in Augsburg and travelled in from their to Munich for free on match day. 1 Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282588
manc_don Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 Is it the yanks or is it the FIFA mafia? I’d probably say both, a country up there with Qatar and Russia as to not deserving the rights to host it. Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282590
Jute Posted April 19 Author Report Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, manc_don said: Is it the yanks or is it the FIFA mafia? I’d probably say both, a country up there with Qatar and Russia as to not deserving the rights to host it. From the stuff I have read it seems to be local authorities saying that a different party signed up to World Cup bid and now it’s a different administration they want FIFA to foot the bill for the transport. Also seen some of local authorities wanting FIFA to foot bill for increased security needed during the World Cup. All these costs are supposed to be factored in to the bid but as I said above the various local authorities all seem to be saying they didn’t sign up to the bid and are not going to foot the bill someone else agreed to. Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282595
Jupiter Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 Only $15 for a bus in Kansas city https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/world-cup/article/kansas-city-bus-tickets-stadium-world-cup-games-c9phdpxbn Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-282637
swaddon Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 I saw that some places are not going to be charging as much as they said they would for transportation now. Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-283926
Jute Posted May 23 Author Report Share Posted May 23 Looks like high prices might be putting folk off. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9q34pxv79eo Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-284485
Jute Posted May 28 Author Report Share Posted May 28 New York and New Jersey state attorney’s are investigating FIFA over World Cup ticketing practices. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/27/new-york-new-jersey-investigation-fifa-ticketing Quote Link to comment https://dev.donstalk.co.uk/topic/10836-robbery/#findComment-284728
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