Just helps to prove - if any further proof was needed - that FIFA are total digustoids
Probably because someone might fill them with something and throw it at the players.
As opposed to someone might buy a filed bottle from Coca Cola and throw it at the players.
Most probably they won’t sell anything in bottles. In London they only sell water in the bottles with wide opening without a cap and everything else in plastic glasses. In Switzerland they don’t sell anything in bottles at all.
Au contraire
Water, sodas and juices sold at World Cup stadiums will be supplied exclusively by long-time FIFA sponsor Coca-Cola when the tournament starts next Thursday.
I think FIFA like to keep their filed stuff to themselves, who knows what skeletons they might find in those files.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
In plastic cups, no?
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That’s a tough read. I opened the article thinking “Well, this will be another case of people not reading the small print…” (shame on me) but, no.
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What puzzles me is, what does the guy who’s going to the Embassy the day before his flight think he will accomplish? An explanation? A reversal? Accountability in any form?? That’ll be the day.
If you are in danger of losing 10,000 quid on the trip of a lifetime, you’d probably try anything. Poor bloke.
You mean Embolo? He was not allowed to enter visa-free with ESTA so he went to the embassy to apply for visa.
He is flying to LA right now, BTW.
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Water bottle ban’s been lifted.
And
It’s almost childlike how they consistently make PR gaffes then realise the optics later, when the media has handed them their collective arse on a plate. Don’t they have PR people thinking of this stuff BEFOREHAND?
Astonishing.
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It has parallels to other dictators like Trump.
They have stupid ideas and their yes men are too frightened to tell them to forget it.
Not exactly lifted but lightened perhaps. You still can’t bring in the bottle you bought on your walk to the stadium and you still can’t bring an empty bottle to fill yourselves in the stadiums.
These policies increase the incredible waste from single use plastics by discouraging re-use.
Why? If it’s a factory-sealed transparent bottle it will be allowed (according to the article above).
Not if you opened the bottle.
For future reference: i.e. if any silly persons suggest holding the Olympics in Switzerland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fifa-world-cup-benefits-vancouver-bc-9.7225612
If Vancouver and Canada make money hosting the World Cup, it would make them the exception rather than the rule, according to the authors of a 2022 peer-reviewed study on the economics of the Olympics and the World Cup.
“Are the Olympics and the Football World Cup profitable for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), who own the rights to these events? Yes, very much so,” the authors wrote. “Are they profitable for the organizing committees that need to put them on? Sometimes, but not very often. For the host city and government? Hardly ever.”
Usually, it’s a transfer from public funds to private accounts (stadiums, food, lodging).
After all the complains of “density stress” I doubt anyone would attempt to organize an event like that here.