The Premier League Thread

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
fran-MLs little camera said:
I read somewhere that some clubs quote tickets sold and others the actual number attending....it was said that Saints were a club who reported the head count not tickets sold.
Click to expand...

If we are then we are one of a very few.

I'd like to see the real attendane figures of all of those.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
I read somewhere that some clubs quote tickets sold and others the actual number attending....it was said that Saints were a club who reported the head count not tickets sold.
Click to expand...
Arsenal, for example state tickets sold. So even when there are rows of seats empty, as during this season, their figures say they fill up the place. Which, in terms of money, they do. That's all they are really interested in anyway.

Not sure that Southampton are taking a better, clearer approach however. On many occasions you'll hear that Saints have 'sold out' at St Mary's, yet the actual attendance, at the match, reports lower. Of course, when 32.6K people buy tickets there are bound to be a very small percentage who don't actually make it, but it means that empty seats are visible. In recent years, on the odd occasions when all the time and financial windows tumble into place, I can never go to a match that I particularly want to. I've sort of given up these days. I've seen those empty seats and sometimes wondered if they were properly empty or not. This is why an extra 4-8K seats would be great at St Mary's, but even then I suspect they may be taken up semi-permanently before too long.
 
Remember when Hull reported their attendance for a match, and judging from those at the ground and views of the stands, this number was about 10k too high.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...igation-alleged-tapping-stoke-city-schoolboy/

Liverpool up to their old tricks....accused of offering a financial inducement to a Stoke City schoolboy to switch. The lad is now in limbo between both clubs....perhaps his parents should have been more careful.
Click to expand...

Whilst I have absolutely zero sympathy for Liverpool and their tactics, the parents could have kept the lad at Stoke City and nothing would have happened. It appears that he was well taken care of there.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
Gary Neville has suggested that no team should be able to sack a manager during the season. You have to finish with the man you start with. Bit tough on all those unemployed managers who sit waiting by the phone. And although you can feel sorry for managers who lose their jobs (sometimes unfairly), they are usually well recompensed. They don't get a few hundred in redundancy. And it could make managers complacent. Interesting talking point, but can't see that idea being adopted.
Click to expand...

They could have their own 'sack' windows. ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: ChilcoSaint and davecg69
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back