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***Official English Football Season 2021/22***

Niall

International Coach
I'm not sure how the respective results compare, but Palace always seem to be a pain for Man City when they play and then to compound things roll over for Liverpool.

Looking at the fixture list for both sides, Liverpool have it trickier, have to travel to Arsenal and obviously City.
 

Uppercut

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Given city won that weekend, Liverpool wouldn’t have won the title even if they’d beaten Palace. But it was still one of the funniest games.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Haha yes, the images of crying Suarez and scowling Gerrard make me smile just thinking about them even now
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
The best Palace v LIverpool game was that one where Liverpool were closing in on the title and were 3-0 up with 10 mins to go
Just after the Gerrard slip I believe. I was overseas so never saw the Palace game but got the impression they were trying to pile the GD on as they were likely to finish level on points with City. But that was never happening anyway, I think City won 4-0 the following night. And hence they imploded.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Given city won that weekend, Liverpool wouldn’t have won the title even if they’d beaten Palace. But it was still one of the funniest games.
That's with hindsight though. I think they needed to rack up the goal difference but who knows how the season pans out if Liverpool don't **** it up.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Chelsea want the Boro game to be behind closed doors because they can’t sell any more tickets to their fans.

Ignoring how insane a request that is. Why can’t the home club just sell tickets to the away end to the Chelsea fans?

We have to do that a few games a season. The % due to the away club could just go into a holding pot, no?
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Haha it's ****ing dire

They are rightly being derided by essentially everyone, including their own fans

what a shower
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Ignoring how insane a request that is. Why can’t the home club just sell tickets to the away end to the Chelsea fans?
Assuming it's Middlesbrough who are the home team, I doubt they'd want the liability that might arise from selling away end tickets to anyone who wanted them, particularly to an away support as cunty as Chelsea's.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Presuambly there's nothing stopping Chelsea just giving their tickets away to their fans either
Someone somewhere would have to stump up the cash for the tickets though. I don't think you can charge one set of fans an admission price while letting in the other set without paying.

If Chelsea gave away 4,000 away end tickets at £30 a pop (for arguments sake) they still need to stump up £120,000 to buy the tickets to then give them away. Are they allowed to do that under their current arrangements?
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
I don't see why they couldn't tbh

Might not make logical sense, but if they buy the tickets they'd be able to give them away, use them as toilet paper, set them on fire, or do whatever they want with them (apart from sell them) as far as I can see

In any event this whole incident is a truly hilarious PR miscalculation, what on earth were they thinking
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Nah. FA rules prevent that tbh. You aren't allowed to sell tickets below x. I am fairly sure Chelsea as an organisation wouldn't be allowed to buy the tickets as a way around this.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
interesting, did not know this

I wonder what the rationale for that rule is

Something to do with preventing unfair competition I guess
 

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