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Birmingham City’s stadium proposal.

60K+ seats, 5 year build at a cost of ~£1-1.5B, for a team sitting 9th in the Championship..

Tom Brady confirming that “NFL games will come”.

Lets hope we don’t also see the NFL trend of higher ticket prices using dynamic pricing at the expense of local fans?
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
5/5

Trump on World Cup Host Country Mexico.

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
4/5

Trump on moving games away from host city Seattle..

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
3/5 Infantino looking very nervous as Trump & Noem talk about Venezuelan gangs…a reminder Venuzeula are a FIFA member…

Thread
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
2/5 Infantino thanking Trump and glad to be “At Home” at the White House…

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino once again at the White House and once again ignoring FIFAs political neutrality rules.

Summary of video highlights below.

1/5 Trump gloating about record ticket sales at the most unaffordable World Cup of all time.

Thread of 5 videos.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is the “record business” Trump keeps referring to….
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
All this follows just a week after Edi Rama - Prime Minister of Albania called Infantino “the Emperor of Football” and joked about Infantinos trips to the Whitehouse.

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Thread of posts below.
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
FIFA Code of Conduct:

“In dealings with government institutions, national and international organisations, associations and groupings, persons bound by this Code shall, in addition to observing the basic rules of art.14, remain politically neutral”

🚨POLITICALLY NEUTRAL🚨

Yet Infantino said this ⤵️
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I think this is the “record business” Trump was referring to….
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Trump: ”If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, and I would say, let's move it to another location. And he would do that,"

FIFA / Infantino = MAGA lapdog.
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM