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

[Furball]

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.

Surely if any club wanted to give their fans a freebie then they could buy the tickets and take the hit?

 

[sledger]

Have just looked into this more, and apparently FA rules notwithstanding, Chelsea aren't even allow to give away tickets as part of their licence (which seems unnecessarily punitive imo)

 

[GIMH]

Surely if any club wanted to give their fans a freebie then they could buy the tickets and take the hit?

I wouldn’t have thought so. As otherwise I expect you’d see it happen with joke outfits like Salford and Forest Green who have lots of money but no fans. Salford laid on £12 coaches to Prenton Park last September but there were still only a couple of hundred supporters there. Investing in tickets instead of coach subsidies would see a bigger uptake for many reasons.

Clubs get a certain amount of comps and beyond that I think everything has to be above board. I guess as sledger says the powers that be don’t want rich clubs buying themselves an off field advantage? Probably some financial crime related elements to the rules too I would guess. There’s also a fairness argument I suppose in that if the home team are limited to how low they can make prices, then the away team buying tickets and giving them away would be in effect doing the same thing.

 

[sledger]

chelsea now withdraw their request lol

 

[grecian]

chelsea now withdraw their request lol

TBF it was quite funny while it lasted, I guess they don't care much about PR ATM, but still. Get Ashley in sort 'em out, change the name of the statium To "Sports Direct Ground", Matthew Harding end can change to "20% off" get them to play in SD's colours, hey they've got the blue part just change the shorts to red. Sell all their best players and replace them with ones that are okay but just got relegated. bish-bash-bosh job done

What everyone deserves.

 

[wpdavid]

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.

Oddly, I think our track record against City is better at The Etihad than at Selhurst Park. No idea why; probably just one of those anomalies. And as you say, our recent track record against Liverpool is horrid. It sounds like we got a bit lucky last night tbf.

 

[Aritro]

Was wading through the reaction to Chelsea's request wondering what the big deal was until I realised the game is at the Riverside. Hahaha, you bunch of ****ing *****.

 

[Uppercut]

Fred has been very, very good under Rangnick.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Manure still managed to out wretched Chelsea.
In real football. Plymouth 1 Portsmouth 0.

 

[Niall]

Going to be a lot of grumbling about the referee from Utd fans and to an extent I get that, he was absolutely awful, Elanga fouled in the run up to the goal and was clueless when it came to Madrid's gamesmanship, but ultimately Utd created absolute **** all and lost all discipline in the second half when all they needed was one goal and this is far from a peak Simeone team.

On Ralf, , what was the logic of bringing on Rashford when you need a goal?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Oddly, I think our track record against City is better at The Etihad than at Selhurst Park. No idea why; probably just one of those anomalies. And as you say, our recent track record against Liverpool is horrid. It sounds like we got a bit lucky last night tbf.

You were very good tbf. Vieira set you up perfectly to play against the false 9 system.

City should still have won 2 or 3 nil by the end (Bernardo and Laporte both contrived to miss 2 sitters apiece) but you were well worth your point IMO. Connor Gallagher especially impressive.

 

[GIMH]

My god league 2 is so tight

 

[grecian]

My god league 2 is so tight

Yeah, on Exeweb everyone was saying after Mansfield beat us that they were certainties to go up, within 3 matches they've gone from 2nd to 10th.

Gotta say, would be confident, but losing Nombe again means we’ve not got a focal player up front, 3 loanees been brought in to try to do it, but none are much cop IMHO. We'll see, time for someone to become an hero and become a club legend.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Have just looked into this more, and apparently FA rules notwithstanding, Chelsea aren't even allow to give away tickets as part of their licence (which seems unnecessarily punitive imo)

I saw someone speculate that this sanction was also related to Roman's suspected money laundering, in which case you probably don't want the club to be involved in transactions of goods and services at non-market prices

 

[sledger]

Good from Arsenal this

 

[sledger]

Haha goddamn it

 

[sledger]

Ramsdale now being scolded for committing the being beaten at the near post = error fallacy

 

[sledger]

Ergh

Oh well

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not sure if Chelsea season tickets include Champions League matches. If not they could get their wish of playing with no fans in the home QF.

 

[Furball]

What the **** happened in Turin?