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KEVIN McCALLUM: US World Cup disaster spells bad news for Fox
Does Donald Trump watch Fox Sports? Does he watch football? Soccer, not football, that is. He watches American football, or at least the anthems. He most certainly watches Fox News. Would he have spared a moment for the people at Fox Sports this week? In 2011, they signed a deal with Fifa for the English-language rights to broadcast both the 2018 and 2022 Soccer World Cups in the US for more than $400m. On Tuesday night, the US men’s football team lost 2-1 to Trinidad and Tobago and failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986. Fox Sports executives would have spat the dummy. ESPN executives would have been forgiven a small smile. Fox bid four times as much as ESPN did for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. And then the US made sure that there is no home team for them to cheer on. The US national men’s team are known by the roll-off-the-tongue moniker of USMNT, probably to make sure no one mistakes them for the women’s team, the one that wins World Cups and Olympic m...
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