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💭   Empty seats are everywhere at the Club World Cup. But does this miss the real point?

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Put in a wider context, the attendance issues that have emerged during the tournament perhaps aren’t quite as embarrassing as they seemIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the Club World Cup so far, it’s that images of nothingness can still generate strong reactions. Empty seats – which are apparently a festering scourge upon the game of football or a tragedy representing the plastic bankruptcy of American soccer fandom and/or the Club World Cup – have been commonplace in the competition’s opening dozen games. Social media is awash in panoramic photos of empty banks of seats, informing you that this image, so obscene in its emptiness, was taken a mere 45 minutes before kickoff – or ...

The Guardian (Opinion)     Jun 18, 2025