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‘The perfect job’: meet the fans being paid to watch all 104 World Cup games in Times Square

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‘The perfect job’: meet the fans being paid to watch all 104 World Cup games in Times Square
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A Liverpool fan and an influencer explain what it’s like to be hired for a Truman Show-style experimentWhen Kevin Kotoko heard that he had been selected as one of Fox’s chief World Cup watchers he had no hesitation in accepting. What self-respecting football fan could turn down the opportunity to be paid $50,000 (£37,000) to take in all 104 games at this World Cup, after all?The only issues were that he would have to watch every match in a custom-built viewing cube in the heart of Times Square a

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