No, being uncomfortable with my state government paying $10million for a one off soccer game does not make me a troll. You thinking it does, identifies you as a member of the soccer persecution complex brigade. Have a proper think about it, its 20% of the entire ffa tv rights. Theis a reason you "win" the rights to these sort of things - you offer more money than anyone else did!
Have a look at the massive jump in OS and interstate visitors Melbourne/Victoria has had over the past 15 years. Thats has to be due to something it dosent just happen.
I put it down to the "events" programme the Kennett Govt started and has been built on and continued by successive governments both Labor and LNP
These strategies take years to show results and that is what is happening now.As I said before $10 million is a small price to pay for this international event.