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Jingleheimer_smyth t1_iwrn013 wrote

How much was he paid to say that

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Important_Muffin_212 t1_iwrnvyt wrote

As above…. Apparently they paid him £150M to be the face of the World Cup. The bloke will do anything for phat money!

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ddt70 t1_iwrqdfg wrote

So that’s about £1,000 per dead itinerant worker?

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Important_Muffin_212 t1_iwrrtyk wrote

Not quite…..

A reported 6500 workers tragically died. Divided by £150,000,000 = £23,076 each. Nice work if you can get it.

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ddt70 t1_iwrs1jt wrote

Yes you’re right.

I thought the number was around 15,000…… so even on that basis I was out by a factor of 10.

Back to school for me!

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Important_Muffin_212 t1_iwrsl7x wrote

Well, either way, it’s a bent World Cup paid for with suitcases full of cash to a load of greedy old men. Think I’ll give it a swerve.

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ddt70 t1_iwrsxik wrote

Yes, me too. I’m sick of everything being reduced to merely a dollar value.

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agoia t1_iwt9ubo wrote

I doubt that anyone will ever know the true number of workers that died for WC2022. It's like trying to quantify Russian soldier losses during the invasion of Ukraine.

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TucsonTacos t1_iwsklg0 wrote

Wasn’t this the World Cup that was expected to go to England that he campaigned for? Or was that the Russian World Cup?

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