The Economics of the World Cup
Infographic showing how much it costs to sponsor the World Cup and other costs.
Also : What the teams make for playing in the world cup/last 16/QF/SF/Final
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Avast is still alive!!!!, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:14,
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These tables have one glaring omission
it fails to take account of the Blatter Kickback Index...
• 2007: Fifa's South Africa World Cup committee awards Swiss firm Match AG exclusive £342m hospitality rights.
• 2010: Match AG – co-owned by Sepp's nephew's firm – award a £260,000 "liaison services" contract to Fifa World Cup committee chief executive Danny Jordaan's brother. Jordaan says South Africa's Mail & Guardian is "malicious" for making the deal public. "Why ask about a conflict of interest? What conflict? I have nothing to do with it... Match AG are independent." (Sepp's message to Fifa's Congress on 3 June: "We are one happy football family!")
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:20,
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oof....
• 72: Number of marked-up match tickets a German tout tried to sell in Johannesburg. Fifa: "We will prosecute all those trying to exploit the World Cup ... Fifa's tough action will stop fans being cheated."
• 5,400: Number of marked-up World Cup tickets Fifa VP Jack Warner's family company tried to sell in 2006, for a £500k profit. Sepp: "Jack is a wonderful, loyal friend! He's a very competent man."
A Nigerian guy went down for three years last week for having 30 tickets
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:37,
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how do these men do it?
they run one of the largest, most profitable organisations on earth and yet they dont seem to be subject to any sort of regulation and they are accountable to no-one.
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I thought he was just asking an honest question...
I mean, if it's ok with everyone else, I'd like a slice of the cake too ;)
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Claws of Doom I am no longer infected, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 18:07,
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