A larger problem,” it said, “is that soccer is not generally a widely supported sport in New Zealand and attracting fans to stadiums in the coldest months of the year was always going to be a hard sell.”
Well, gee, it sounds like you shouldn’t have decided to host the Women’s World Cup there. I understand that it’s ideologically “better” than admitting women don’t sell tickets, but you’d think some of the people in the FIFA administration wouldn’t be happy to have their business choices called out as incompetent like this.
This quote also girds into the same territory as all the Hollywood types calling fans racist when shitty movies do shitty at the box office. Not as explicit or as angry, but kind of a lighter touch version of it. Still directly blaming and calling out the people you’re supposed to sell the product to.
Well, gee, it sounds like you shouldn’t have decided to host the Women’s World Cup there. I understand that it’s ideologically “better” than admitting women don’t sell tickets, but you’d think some of the people in the FIFA administration wouldn’t be happy to have their business choices called out as incompetent like this.
This quote also girds into the same territory as all the Hollywood types calling fans racist when shitty movies do shitty at the box office. Not as explicit or as angry, but kind of a lighter touch version of it. Still directly blaming and calling out the people you’re supposed to sell the product to.