The World Cup and its ironical circus slamming

The FIFA World Cup 2026 has finally come and gone.

But not its ripple effects from it being a very successful tournament.

And this is only to be expected because when about seven million humans participate in a single event, then a lot of ripple effects will be felt from it.

The most significant ripple effect is that an American businessman, Joshua Kushner, probably wowed by the World Cup’s great success, saw the possibility in having a slice of its sweet pie so came up with a $10bn-dollar proposal to have a stake in it.

Whilst it has been shut down quickly enough, sometimes people don’t bite at the first time of asking.

Another ripple effect is people saying that its new initiatives, particularly its much-talked-about halftime show which was double the usual 15-minute halftime break in football, made it a circus.

That comparison, though a complaint, is somehow just instead, because circuses attract people to entertain them, which is also the intention of the World Cup and it did indeed attract and entertain people to the tune of about seven million people in the stadiums physically but much more globally physically still and virtually as well.

So, if the World Cup was a circus, that’s why it was such a huge success.