World Cup 2026 - USA/Canada/Mexico

Just having a bit of quick fun on The Guardian. I threw in a few surprises.

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafctom said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafctom said:

I’m flying to America next week, starting in Chicago…the first of ten cities on my trip.

Yes, there will be parts of it that will be a ballache, too expensive, too hot, too corporate etc. 

But it’s an event that comes around every four years, and life’s too short to find the negative in everything. 

Bring it on.

For the amount of dough it's costing you I hope you have a bloody good time.

It’s an expensive trip, but genuinely could be a lot worse.

Tickets, accommodation, flights all in this is setting me back about £5-6k for a three week trip. 

If we get to the Final and I end up going back out for it then that number doubles. Even as a member of the England Supporters Club. Thats the part that I find is really disgusting from a price perspective, because they actually take the money off of you (£3k for a ticket) before the tournament and hold onto it!

But that factor aside, it is doable to make the rest of it seem reasonable. I literally pressed the pause button on my TV when Englands name came out the hat so I could start booking flights, hotels etc on free cancellation before anything surged too much. 

Whilst this is not loose change, I would have thought this would have been a bit more.  However, for major tournaments around the world nothing is cheap.

I hope you come back thinking it was money well spent.

We are going out for the three group games - flights including internals, match tickets and 13 nights accommodation (3 Dallas, 5 Boston and 5 NY) has worked out around £7k each. There will be quite a lot of beer tokens required on top of that. We’ve also got tickets for the final and that’s about the same again for match tickets, flights and accommodation but all refundable if we don’t make the final.

is that money well spent? All relative of course but the memories of sharing that trip with my beautiful boys will live long in their memories after I’m long gone. For me that is worth every penny, and if we get to the final and win it? Absolutely priceless.

bobmunro said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafctom said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

cafctom said:

I’m flying to America next week, starting in Chicago…the first of ten cities on my trip.

Yes, there will be parts of it that will be a ballache, too expensive, too hot, too corporate etc. 

But it’s an event that comes around every four years, and life’s too short to find the negative in everything. 

Bring it on.

For the amount of dough it's costing you I hope you have a bloody good time.

It’s an expensive trip, but genuinely could be a lot worse.

Tickets, accommodation, flights all in this is setting me back about £5-6k for a three week trip. 

If we get to the Final and I end up going back out for it then that number doubles. Even as a member of the England Supporters Club. Thats the part that I find is really disgusting from a price perspective, because they actually take the money off of you (£3k for a ticket) before the tournament and hold onto it!

But that factor aside, it is doable to make the rest of it seem reasonable. I literally pressed the pause button on my TV when Englands name came out the hat so I could start booking flights, hotels etc on free cancellation before anything surged too much. 

Whilst this is not loose change, I would have thought this would have been a bit more.  However, for major tournaments around the world nothing is cheap.

I hope you come back thinking it was money well spent.

We are going out for the three group games - flights including internals, match tickets and 13 nights accommodation (3 Dallas, 5 Boston and 5 NY) has worked out around £7k each. There will be quite a lot of beer tokens required on top of that. We’ve also got tickets for the final and that’s about the same again for match tickets, flights and accommodation but all refundable if we don’t make the final.

is that money well spent? All relative of course but the memories of sharing that trip with my beautiful boys will live long in their memories after I’m long gone. For me that is worth every penny, and if we get to the final and win it? Absolutely priceless.

Elthamaddick said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Callumcafc said:

It’s quite straightforward for England who know the paths to the semi final, whichever position they qualify.

Qualify 3rd
R32 -> 1st Group K in Kansas City (Portugal)
R16 -> 1st Group B in Vancouver (Canada / Switzerland) 
QF -> 1st Group J (Argentina) in Kansas City
SF in Atlanta

Qualify 2nd
R32 -> 2nd Group K in Toronto (Colombia)
R16 -> 1st Group H in Dallas (Spain)
QF -> 1st Group D/G in Los Angeles (USA/Belgium)
SF in Dallas

Qualify 1st
R32-> 3rd Group K in Atlanta (as long as 3rd Group K qualified)
R16 -> 1st Group A in Mexico City (Mexico)
QF -> 1st Group C in Miami (Brazil)
SF in Atlanta

Mexico in the Azteca followed by Brazil in the heat of Miami doesn't look easy.

Got a feeling the QF is 5pm local time in Miami as well so just a little bit warm!

I was in Miami last August and it at least has a bit of sea influence and breeze there. We went as far up as Georgia and thats where it got unbearable......