used to show adverts<\/a> on some US networks. <\/p>\n“I get that it’s the World Cup final, but it’s the most-watched event in the world already and I don’t think you need to add these things to it,” he tells us.<\/p>\n
“Being a football fan in a stadium, by the end of half time people are quite restless.”<\/p>\n
Platten, 28, has been travelling around the host nations to watch World Cup games for the last month.<\/p>\n
He says he is “curious to see how the half-time show affects the game in general”. <\/p>\n
Ifab have previously rejected proposals to extend football half-times beyond 15 minutes, citing concerns over player welfare and the potential for injury after prolonged inactivity.<\/p>\n
“You’d almost have to make a sub at half time because of player welfare,” Platten notes.<\/p>\n
He adds: “They’re not thinking about that, they’re just thinking ‘oh we can have Justin Bieber on stage’ but Messi’s in a World Cup final – I think he’s slightly more important.”<\/p>\n
Glover agrees and says she is “not sure football needs” a half-time show.<\/p>\n
“The World Cup this year feels very American, I’m watching coverage in the US and you’ve got so many adverts, they barely do any analysis,” she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But British football content creator Ellis Platten is “not a fan” of some initiatives at this year’s World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-699452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}