Don’t come to this World Cup, please.

• resident of a host city

Banning insulated water bottles in California… that might actually be a bigger backlash than building stadiums with slave labor.

FIFA taking cues from Trump on PR. Do awful things, lie, don’t acknowledge the criticism, never apologize, keep doubling down. Maybe he could leave office and go join their board?

Roughly translated to “if we stop people bringing water in we can then sell it to them at exorbitant costs”.

One man’s health risk is another man’s business opportunity (at least in capitalism).

“If they allowed it last year and originally for this tournament then I find the security argument a bit hard to believe,” Evain said. “It shows water is unfortunately still seen as a commodity but it’s not, it’s a matter of health. We don’t know how expensive a bottle of water will be inside the stadium because no prices have been published.

“Fifa explained previously that part of their response to the heat risk was the water bottles. So what does it mean now to take it away, and what mitigation measures are they taking? It’s already a very expensive World Cup. People will look for alternatives or just not drink water when they should.”

I bet there’s FIFA reusable bottle merch. Also, I recall venues took away our bottle caps because of popping bottles being mistaken for gunshots a few years ago, so you have to pray nothing gets slipped into it, or that it gets knocked over, or that you have to go into the bathroom with an open container. I’d call everyone getting fucking sloshed on beers instead a greater risk to the environment.

FIFA is a mafia-like structure, and they get more emboldened world cup after world cup.

Use the $15 bottles once, fill them with piss, dispose responsibly on the field.

FIFA said it was “prioritising safety and security of everyone [who has invested a bunch of money] involved”

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WTF