Mailbag: What is going on with ticket prices for the World Cup?
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It's going to cost a lot of money to go to this summer's World Cup. So what will happen to the atmosphere at games? And just how many people on X are going to tell you that it's actually perfectly justifiable to charge hundreds of dollars for a seat in Row Z?
Marcus, Luke and David return to Friday's discussion about the true cost of the 2026 World Cup. Plus, is Unai Emery the best Premier League manager of the last five years apart from Pep? The lads also discuss which of the Prem's long-standing records looks the hardest to break and what's more important: football or love?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Football Rambled Mailbag. |
| 0:04.1 | World Cup tickets, Unai, Emery and Premier League Records are the orders of the day. |
| 0:07.7 | It's Tuesday, 16th of December. I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Luke Moore. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm David Carledge. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:27.2 | Good to have you with us for The Mailbag, |
| 0:29.2 | a very special show, of course, at the Football Rainbow, |
| 0:32.1 | where you can ask us quite literally anything. |
| 0:34.5 | And one or two of the questions later in the show, |
| 0:35.6 | we'll testify to that. |
| 0:38.1 | So get in touch on X Blue Sky, Instagram, at Football Ramble. Comment on YouTube. Email us show at footballamble.com and of course, |
| 0:42.0 | friends of the ramble, you get priority because you're our favorites. Patron.com |
| 0:46.0 | forward slash football ramble or sign up on YouTube. Let us begin, gentlemen, with this from Bertie, |
| 0:52.7 | who gets in touch on email. He says, |
| 0:55.8 | Hi, Ramblars. Following on from your chat about the World Cup ticket prices, I was chatting |
| 1:00.3 | with a friend in the US, and I wanted to share their perspective. They told me the prices |
| 1:05.3 | were unsurprising, given that there are much higher wages in the US and that sport is a luxury good there. Even before FIFA is involved, looking around the studio, I think I know what your answers are going to be. It's just tedious, isn't it? It's tiresome. I carry on, Luke. This might explain why the tickets have been priced higher than previous World Cups. Might explain it, Luke. Doesn't? Does it not? |
| 1:27.6 | No. |
| 1:27.8 | Okay. |
| 1:30.9 | This leads me to ask two questions, Bertie. |
| 1:41.8 | It's good for two questions, Marcus. How do you feel about that? Is he a friend of the ramble? Well, I think the first one is going to be answered quite quickly. Okay. Firstly, is this in any way justifiable? That's your practice question, Bertie. |
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