Gillingham Match Rearranged

I was thinking the opposite. Unless there is a change of fortunes, I can imagine many people would prefer France v Australia to 20th v 22nd (as they are now) in League 2.

Yeah England have been appalling recently and a world cup mid season which will clash with lower league and non league doesn't lead to a very appealing prospect. Maybe some people would rather watch a world cup game on TV than attend a game in person, but if we're doing a bit better at the time it shouldn't affect the attendance that much. It's not like it's an England game or a world cup final.

Besides given that we weren't able to attend football matches for the best part of 1 and half years recently I enjoy going to games in person even more now. I drove up to watch my home town team (Burgess Hill) play away at Met Police in East Molesey the other week because I enjoy going to games more than watching Premier League football on TV.

I think it's also stuff like the way workers have been treated in Qatar and the human rights issues that have made me not enthusiastic about it.

As for your second line, for me personally that's applied to a lot more things as well as football during the post-Covid era, I've had much more of an appetite for going to events than I did before 2020 (especially stuff which is affordable and you feel you are really supporting the players by being there). Maybe it's because of not taking as much of these things for granted after what happened

I'll be there.
It's only France V Australia, it's not as if it's England playing.
There's plenty of other World Cup matches to watch.