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This has been weighing heavily on me, and I can’t stay quiet about it any longer. I am 71 years old. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend five World Cups, starting in 1986. Those tournaments weren’t just events to me, they were life chapters. They were about connection, about culture, about standing shoulder to shoulder with people from every corner of the world, united by the game we love. But what I’m seeing now breaks my heart. The current dynamic pricing strategy for the upcoming World Cup feels completely detached from the very soul of football. Yes, this tournament is being played mostly in the United States, and yes, it’s a premium market. But football was never meant to be a luxury product reserved for the highest bidder. It belongs to the people. Always has. I looked back fondly at USA 94 and everything we did then to fill stadiums and bring the game to life for Americans who were just dipping their toes into the water of the beautiful game. Right now, it feels like the average, passionate supporter, the ones who save for years, who travel across continents, who bring the color, the noise, the spirit, are being pushed out. Replaced by a model that prioritizes revenue over reality. That’s a dangerous road because once you lose the authentic fan, you lose the essence of what makes the World Cup special. I say this not just as a fan, but as someone who has spent a lifetime in and around the game. During my time at EA SPORTS, we stood shoulder to shoulder with FIFA when they needed it most. Our game kept millions of fans connected to football and to the World Cup when trust in the organization was at its lowest. We helped carry the flame. Which is why this moment feels even more disappointing. This may well be one of the last World Cups I have the chance to attend and I find myself wondering if the game I’ve loved all my life is slowly drifting away from people like me, and far more importantly, from the next generation who deserve to feel what I felt in 1986. The World Cup should unite the world. Not divide it by price. Football deserves better. And so do the fans. Come on @FIFAcom , sort this out… It’s not too late.

@Abihabib I literally don't know a single person who thinks like that, even my ex-Hezbollah barber wishes they didn't exist at this point. We can be angry at multiple entities at the same time... Self loathing Christians cozying up to Iran are a huge part of the problem.. So stop it.

@ObHerr @NXT4EU The noise you hear is the air leaking from your empty head. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herri…

@NXT4EU How about all noise it makes ?

Germany is set to build the tallest Wind Turbine in the world, reaching a staggering 366 meters high! Why such a tall structure? Because wind is much stronger at that altitude, providing a stable flow of electricity around the clock. It provides electricity for 30.000 people.

@archer_rs Stop including Alaska

A future EU economic and geographical power block that would dwarf the world.

@txgermanbre French people watching the Brits and Germans argue on who has better food

German food is infinitely better than the British food. I will die on this hill.

Trump's second term will be the disastrous equivalent to Brexit for the UK, with a lot more people dying.

@OlenaHalushka @arnocast They're basically creating a new EU within the EU already as a stepping stone to that (the E6 - Germany France Italy Spain NL and Poland). You cannot change the actual EU without "breaking the rules", and we all know how much the Germans love ordnung.

The EU is dead if they don't find a way to change decision-making from unanimity to qualified majority. Even if Orban loses, russia will soon buy a new little helper among the European leaders. The problem is far deeper than Orban.

Still happy to trade this... just the EU part though, NATO is probably already dead.

@BuckOnTwidder Pretty sure Citadel's PnL right now is not what you think it is.

there are guys on here who don’t know how to cook themselves eggs trying to trade oil against Citadel

@Amena__Bakr You also make sure that none of the attacks have time to be reported properly by unleashing the JD Vance / Trump / Hegseth trio of positive headlines all morning to make sure the US open provides the exit liquidity they all need.

I’m new to ceasefires…. Can someone explain to me is this how they work ? They agree to “ceasefire” and then attacks continue?

So is this the new US strat ? Have JD Vance blurt out positive stuff during European hours (while he's in Hungary), Trump tweet random stuff from the crapper in the morning, then just have Hegseth literally NOT SHUT THE F UP until the US open ?

@WagieCapital I trade European hours and so far I can tell you that it has NOT worked... The tweeter in chief + Vance are just constantly yapping on how amazing this all is. Let's see what happens once they get their exit liquidity filled.

Seems like this is one of the more obvious rallies to fade

@POTFES Adding Alaska is a bit ambitious...

SOON

@BarakRavid @laurnorman @MarcACaputo @axios Damn it I left the office how am supposed to fade your "news" now...

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Progress has been made in the past 24 hours in the negotiations between the U.S. & Iran, though reaching a ceasefire deal by President Trump's 8pm deadline still looks like a long shot, four sources tell @MarcACaputo & me. Read out story on @axios axios.com/2026/04/07/ira…

@stelzner_n1150 how much are you willing to lose if you're wrong? Given that this is the consensus view ?

Nothing will happen tonight because Trump knows it would cause a global recession and $200 oil. He isn't that stupid.

@clashreport Apparently he's not just Putin's little mouse, but also the US'. Hexit gonna happen without Hungarians approving it.

JD Vance: Bureaucrats in Brussels are doing everything they can to hold down the people of Hungary because they don’t like the leader who has actually stood up for the people of Hungary.

@rationalaussie how much do you make if you're right, vs. if you're wrong. This view is literally consensus at this point, hence my question.

Trump will Taco. The tell is that his rhetoric gets increasingly deranged the worse things are going for him - that's how he negotiates. He has to make everyone believe he has genuinely lost the plot. If the Iranians think he's mentally unwell they might actually believe he'll nuke them. Hence why his tweets the past few days sound like a madman about to destroy their civilisation. He's not gonna drop a nuke, this is just how he negotiates when he has no actual leverage. He's trying to create leverage that doesn't exist by artificially creating what is most scarce: fear of consequence. I fully expect to wake up 8 hours from now to a headline something along the lines of 'we were so close to giving the orders, I called them and I said - listen listen we can always take them back to the stone age next week if we need to but I'm hearing good things - tremendous things - from the much more reasonable Iranians we've been speaking with. Excellent things. Very positive developments. And so I've informed my team to hold off on dropping the BIG bombs just a little longer. Let's see! PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP' And just like that stonks will rip and we'll be waiting until the market closes end of week for more aggressive escalations.

@zoecabina Surely you mean the women and not the men.

Armenians are hot

@BarakRavid @LiveSquawk Please stop retweeting this fraud

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@nntaleb "Bloomberg" Named after Michael Rubens Bloomberg, who is absolutely not biased when it comes to this topic.

This imbecile is a Bloomberg journalist.