Just want a quick gauge of what the group feels about World Cup Coverage before it’s upon us.
I get the overall feeling that Lemmy isn’t really down for sports coverage in general and there’s a large dislike of Fifa in particular.
But if you all want round by round coverage, I’ll put up a sticky.
If you say “Not World News”, I’ll yank any article that gets posted and re-direct them to some sports related community.
Personally, I don’t think any sports is “News”, but hey, that’s just me!
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Sports isn’t News, there’s specific communities that can handle it, we don’t need it here too.
I’m a football fan and wouldn’t want it with just 2 exceptions:
- Winner of WC
- A newsworthy non-sport related event happens at any game
There’s a footy community at https://sopuli.xyz/c/football, let’s all use that eh? 😁
newsworthy non-sport related event
I need to know if the organisation of the event is such a cluster cluck as they say it’s going to be.
As a non sports fan I would also like to know exceptional sport related events like: Brazil 1:7 Germany. And maybe general status of competition like who made it to semi-finals and finals.
All that for to sports. If it was Brazil 1:7 Germany because ICE sent the Brazilian team to El Salvador, that goes to “news”.
Sport news is news. However most sport news is not significant enough to make “front page”. What would make front page are some records etc. World cup is really important event. For humanity not just for sport fans. It is on pair with olimpic games. While I do not want to know who won in some random sport I do want to know if some significant records were broken or other significant stuff happenig.
The same goes for celebrities. I do not wan to know what happened to kardashians. But I want to know if Melania Trump died of cancer.
I do not think “news” community is meant only of “geopolitical news”.
I very much like sports. They belong in sports-specific communities though, not news communities, unless they’re actually making news. Like how FIFA is under investigation for fixing ticket prices. Or how the DOJ launched an investigation into FIFA for bribery but were dismissed by a judge saying bribery isn’t a priority of Trump’s administration. Or how Mexico will host the Iranian team because the US won’t let them stay overnight.
Even those more actual-news stories belong in world cup communities for now due to the volume of stories coming out. I would strongly prefer this community not become 25%+ world cup posts for the duration of the cup.
Hadn’t heard the Mexico angle, last I saw Iran was slated to play in Seattle, but maybe that’s a day trip thing and they are staying in Mexico.
I’m expecting the protest angle in Seattle to be very strong for the Iranian game. June 26th.
Bonus: They are demanding Pride flags be removed.
not world news, there’s specific communities for that. And speaking of that particular cup, coming from a soccer obsessed country, there’s been zero excitement in our local news either.
I think a sticky would be fine. It is “world news”, but I don’t think it is a very popular topic here. Than you can relegate all WC posts to that sticky.
