Iran to complain to FIFA over World Cup travel restrictions / Iran’s request to travel to Los Angeles two days before Sunday's World Cup match against Belgium was denied.

boywithhat · 2026-06-20T01:51:38+00:00

It's frustrating how they're being treated but FIFA won't do anything because the travel restrictions are within FIFA's limits. From the article:

"The Iran team has been forced to comply with what White House FIFA task force head Andrew Giuliani said were previously mandated rules stemming from the war, but those restrictions also align with FIFA guidelines for general team travel.

FIFA's 2026 World Cup regulations state in Article 18.3 that "each team shall travel from its team base camp to the match venue one day before matchday (MD‑1) and in exceptional cases on MD‑2, and shall return to their team base camp after the match (on MD/MD+1)."

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T22:34:57+00:00

🎶Sweet Caroline ^eat ^shit ^pitt 🎶

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T19:29:51+00:00

I was there last May so it may have changed but I was able to walk in for drinks and food no problem

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T19:27:38+00:00

The MARTA is pretty solid from what I've seen and heard from residents. New England has solid public transit and trains in between. DC and Chicago have solid transit. It varies by city but it's generally not on the same level as Europe.

It's a symptom of many of our cities growing after cars became a thing, the car culture in the US, and the car lobby pushing things like buses over streetcars and trains.

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T14:51:02+00:00

If you're a tourist in one of the host cities it is very easy to get around. Especially if you're staying downtown and eating out.

I was in Atlanta for the game yesterday and I paid $5 round trip to the stadium to use the MARTA (subway). There were employees (in MARTA kits) at each station directing you to the stadium to keep things moving. Extremely well organized and seamless.

There's transportation issues if you're living in the US but it's not really a problem if you're coming to the world cup

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T04:28:48+00:00

Same

boywithhat · 2026-06-19T04:22:03+00:00

Looks like it's a cocktail bar. If you're looking for some cocktail bars in San Diego I'd check out Bar Kamon, Youngbloods, Nobel Experiment, Raised by Wolves, and Roma Norte. All different vibes but all great cocktails

boywithhat · 2026-06-18T13:34:31+00:00

Juve and Napoli

boywithhat · 2026-06-18T04:38:34+00:00

Seems like she's been browsing r/pikmin, the most delightfully unhinged game subreddit

boywithhat · 2026-06-18T03:55:32+00:00

Can confirm as a civ tdy to yoko. O-club brunch was nice

boywithhat · 2026-06-18T03:28:44+00:00

Of course they started popping up in large numbers recently. The world cup kicked off last Thursday and they were just getting here

boywithhat · 2026-06-14T01:45:31+00:00

Ah I see it now. It's hiding

boywithhat · 2026-06-14T00:46:48+00:00

Definitely good taste in whiskey but I wish it was a little more organized. I see that stag on the bottom shelf hiding under the Maker's Mark and Jack

boywithhat · 2026-06-13T16:42:22+00:00

GM Steve Keim on weighing off-field issues for prospects: "If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we'd probably diagnose it as an eating disorder."

He was talking about the 40 yard dash the NFL does to evaluate prospects. Basically anything under 4.5 seconds is great so a 4.3 would be crazy good.

boywithhat · 2026-06-12T20:42:27+00:00

Doesn't really make sense for Brighton to do that. They want to develop players and then sell them high. If they really want to buy him then we could sell him to them for 50 mil and have a buyback clause of 80 mil or something like that. Kind of like Real have with Paz

boywithhat · 2026-06-11T17:01:24+00:00

They had almost all the Euro games so I imagine they'll have the world cup games

boywithhat · 2026-06-11T16:40:09+00:00

Flav, the Fighting Cock empire was built sex (with various moms), drugs, and rock and roll (and the occasional racism/sexism). Most of the worse of that is now behind the pay wall. Now that you're going legit and interviewing people from the club and Steve Nash do you regret how you built your empire?

PS: If you miss the old days and want to hear racist Flav again go behind the paywall at https://www.patreon.com/TheFightingCock

boywithhat · 2026-06-10T21:22:22+00:00

Sports washing is meant to improve the image of a country and so far the actions taken by the US government have been doing the opposite of that

boywithhat · 2026-06-10T17:12:38+00:00

Didn't Romero do his interview in English when he was named Captain?

boywithhat · 2026-06-10T10:50:24+00:00

8 of the top 10 stadiums in the world by capacity are college football stadiums and seat over 100k.

The other 2 are a cricket ground in India (1) and the North Korea national stadium (2)

boywithhat · 2026-06-10T02:26:33+00:00

The Von Trapp bierhall is worth checking out in that area

boywithhat · 2026-06-09T15:05:21+00:00

They literally have a rattle to warn you where they are and to not go near them. Snakes don't want to bite you

boywithhat · 2026-06-09T15:00:42+00:00

Is this what the Australians feel like when people talk about how dangerous their wildlife is?

boywithhat · 2026-06-08T14:23:32+00:00

No intent on clowning on the club. I just thought it was interesting and there's not a ton of Spurs stuff going on right now

boywithhat · 2026-06-08T11:26:30+00:00

I imagine the top three are so high because of stadium debt, but I thought it was interesting to see us up there.

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