[Guinness]

Listening to the build up of the Brazil match on 5live earlier..

Apparently for the quarter final match between Brazil and Colombia everyone was given a songsheet of Brazilian football songs as they entered the stadium. They interviewed someone from the Brazilian media who said that the reason for this was that there were few actual Brazilian football fans who could afford the prices to watch the games and therefore few inside the stadium who knew what to do or sing at an actual football match.

Most tickets had gone, long before the games, to the rich and privileged in a country where the difference between the haves and have nots is far worse than the difference between the lords and serfs in medieval England.

I stand by my original point..only the spongers benefit and it's meaningless to the true football fan. It's not even that much of a spectacle anymore.