World Cup: Where are the large-scale public screenings/…
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World Cup: Where are the large-scale public screenings/ open air events?
RANT: Why are almost all the World Cup venues in London ticketed/ mostly have capacity topping out in the high hundreds. Where are the big venues and public screenings?
Why is it that all these other continental European countries know how to put together a couple of large screens and get thousands (or even tens of thousands) of people together in big squares and public spaces. Sometimes they even open up stadiums or proper parks for it. Why can we not do this?
Let me gues: councils + regulation? Responsibility/liability worries?
Fear over terrorism or crowd troubles?
The biggest proper venues I can find in London top out at a few hundred people, and even those usually need bookings or super early queuing. I can’t be the only one who’d love something proper in Trafalgar Square or a BST-style huge setup in Hyde Park. I guess at best there will be an O2 open for the final if you can get a ticket, but that's it? Right?
We’re a football-mad country, so why do we always end up with smaller, more restricted options while other places go all out with proper public fan zones?
Anyone else feel the same? Or is there something big happening that I’ve missed?
#local
RANT: Why are almost all the World Cup venues in London ticketed/ mostly have capacity topping out in the high hundreds. Where are the big venues and public screenings?
Why is it that all these other continental European countries know how to put together a couple of large screens and get thousands (or even tens of thousands) of people together in big squares and public spaces. Sometimes they even open up stadiums or proper parks for it. Why can we not do this?
Let me gues: councils + regulation? Responsibility/liability worries?
Fear over terrorism or crowd troubles?
The biggest proper venues I can find in London top out at a few hundred people, and even those usually need bookings or super early queuing. I can’t be the only one who’d love something proper in Trafalgar Square or a BST-style huge setup in Hyde Park. I guess at best there will be an O2 open for the final if you can get a ticket, but that's it? Right?
We’re a football-mad country, so why do we always end up with smaller, more restricted options while other places go all out with proper public fan zones?
Anyone else feel the same? Or is there something big happening that I’ve missed?
#local
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