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« Reply #4470 on: Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 13:17:26 » |
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In terms of Swindon, it's been a long time since Town had that bit of unwanted news in the press.
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« Reply #4471 on: Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 13:40:43 » |
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Except when it's us it's "soapy tit wank @ swindle goin bust soapy tit wank". When it's everyone else it's "How have the FL allowed this to happen?".
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« Reply #4472 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 11:54:12 » |
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« Reply #4473 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:00:13 » |
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I read that At. Madrid have only sold 50 tickets for their SF game. And rightly so. Fans taking a stand If this was a EPL tournament, fans would be out there in their thousands. |
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« Reply #4474 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:09:20 » |
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I read that At. Madrid have only sold 50 tickets for their SF game. And rightly so. Fans taking a stand
If this was a EPL tournament, fans would be out there in their thousands.
Spanish fans notoriously don't travel, even to away games in Spain. |
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« Reply #4475 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:13:05 » |
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"Valencia insisted that as cup winners they should automatically play the final and threatened legal action over the fact that they were due to receive €3m, compared with the €8m each promised to Madrid, Barcelona and Atlético. The money was adjusted to €6m for Barcelona and Madrid, €3m for Atlético and €2m for Valencia, with a further €1m for each of the finalists." "Hey, that's not fair!" "Okay, we'll give everyone less and you an ever smaller percentage of what the top teams earn." "Deal!" I know that's not the important takeaway from this story, and for some reason it surprised me the most. |
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« Reply #4476 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:49:32 » |
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« Reply #4477 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 13:08:18 » |
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This isn't new is it, I recall watching a Swindon game in this very way previously. |
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« Reply #4478 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 16:07:34 » |
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If anyone is in any doubt as to Salford spending powers... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51031407 |
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« Reply #4479 on: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 19:03:22 » |
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Not looking for a new manager are they?
This is the type of thing that Lansdown does at Bristol City when they need to cover debts or ship in another player.
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« Reply #4480 on: Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 10:56:39 » |
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Coventry playing at "home" to Birmingham in the FA Cup 4th round. Speaking about the prospect... Pep Clotet said: “I have been in professional football 20 years and I have never played away at home. It’s a little bit weird. |
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« Reply #4481 on: Thursday, January 16, 2020, 10:57:00 » |
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« Reply #4482 on: Thursday, January 16, 2020, 11:01:46 » |
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Just sent that to a Villa supporting work colleague. |
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« Reply #4483 on: Thursday, January 16, 2020, 11:02:39 » |
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Just sent that to a Villa supporting work colleague.
I got it from a Birmingham supporting mate, unsurprisingly! |
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« Reply #4484 on: Friday, January 17, 2020, 13:24:57 » |
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I know a lot of you will think this belongs in the "What's right" thread, but irrational hatred of Bournemouth aside, this is just one example, suspect there are many more. This kind of spending is just unsustainable "Premier League survival is vital. During the 2017-18 season, it was revealed that 89 per cent of the club’s revenue came from the top-flight television deal. And of the £119 million they received in TV money that season, £102 million was spent on wages. Bournemouth have placed salary-reducing relegation clauses in players’ contracts, thought to be around 25 per cent, but the financial impact of dropping back down to the Championship would still be seismic. “If we got relegated, I dread to think what would happen to this football club,” said one source. “OK, you’d have the parachute payments, but there’s no money coming in, there’s a big wage bill and after five years in the Premier League, what do we really have to show for it?”" Taken from https://theathletic.com/1517096/2020/01/16/crisis-bournemouth-howe-ibe-solanke/ (quoted the bits above in case you can't get to it as it's behind a paywall, albeit with some initial free access so you might) |
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