• Summzashi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The person I was responding to called it “like being in a righteous army”, that doesn’t apply to millions watching on their couch. I’ve been working in a venue that hosts Champions League matches regularly for almost 2 decades. What the person I responded to said is very accurate, and very exclusive to football.

    There’s no football stadium in the world that even remotely holds the amount of spectators a grand prix pulls.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I’ve never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.

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        4 months ago

        I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.