stevegrant

The people who go to games now will be the main beneficiaries, they are already in possession, they'll just be able to pay less money to do so. It will not increase the likelihood of A N Other who hasn't been for a decade of getting a ticket for a big game. If anything, it will just increase the proliferation of the black market sale of tickets as a wannabe tout won't need as much of a bankroll to buy up half a dozen season tickets in other peoples' names, safe in the knowledge that it's a guaranteed profit every other week.

Do you think if they reduced the price of every ticket that it would stop the tourists? Clearly everybody would, if given the option, choose to pay less for tickets. With most PL grounds sold out every week, the only people that really benefit are those who already go. Most clubs operate schemes which ensure those who attend most regularly get priority, so how would reducing the price help those who can't go now because they can't afford it? All it would do is provide a different reason as to why they can't go, i.e. there aren't enough tickets to satisfy the demand.

So in summary, none of you know for sure. There we go then.

To be fair, this does assume that Clattenburg didn't simply forget which pocket had which card in. The crucial thing here is that there doesn't have to be contact, merely intent. The way he went in was an open invitation for the referee to send him off - exacerbated by the reaction of Payet rolling around and the likes of that little scrote Noble getting in the ref's face.

There's a cost involved in appealing, but if the club thought they had a chance of overturning it, that wouldn't be anything like a problem. The only theoretical issue is the "frivolous appeal" rule where an extra game can be applied to the ban if the appeal panel think the club's wasted their time.

Some Fratton Facts: They've won just 5 out of 15 home league games this season, and they've not yet beaten a team currently in the top 14 of the division. They've beaten the bottom 3, Barnet (18th) and Crawley (15th). This is their third season in League Two, and they have won 25 out of 61 of their home league games in that period, losing 17 and drawing 19. They have only beaten one team home or away who were subsequently promoted that season (Rochdale in 2013/14).

Yep, likely to be this. Corporates get priority access to away tickets as well, I believe.

Looks like there's plenty left. Only 7 in block 24 (right in the corner), but 60 tickets still available in block 23.

Tahar El Khalej on Kieron Dyer.

All that table shows is that we've played away at Man United (cap 76k), Arsenal (60k), Man City (55k), Newcastle (55k), Sunderland (48k) and Chelsea (42k). Arsenal haven't played away at Man United, Man City, Newcastle or Sunderland yet, so their average will increase as a result. Not quite sure what the point of that table is, really, it doesn't really prove anything, even at the end of the season. You'd actually expect the clubs with smaller stadia to be nearer the top as they'll have one fewer game at a low-capacity stadium to bring their average down.

There is a collection option, but I think the site said something about them not being sure when the tickets will be ready to send out, which suggests they don't actually have the tickets in their possession yet.

Good to see the club charging £6.20 for "recorded delivery" of these tickets, despite the service costing just £1.73 via Royal Mail...

Well the club has quite specifically said it's a Promotion XI so I won't be expecting either to be there.

Well yes, considering he scored as a result of being allowed to do so.

Are you REALLY going to take the "it wasn't offside" angle when replays showed that TWO of their goals could have been flagged offside in the buildup? Yes, they were very close, but having any part of the body that can legally play the ball in an offside position is offside. The video footage conclusively proved that Rooney was offside for the first goal and Martial was offside for the third.

His 45 minutes in a crap defeat at home to Leicester (goals from Nugent and Matt Mills, FFS) clearly made an impression Now at Roma and doing reasonably well for himself, which has come as a surprise to everyone, I think.

I don't think there'll be too much of a problem there, with it coming so soon after the end of the season (which I expect is why that particular date was chosen) they should all be able to play some part. Morgan Schneiderlin has pretty much confirmed he'll be playing on his Instagram feed, which suggests there won't be a problem for internationals.

All as sub, unsurprisingly.

I saw him play for Sutton United at the start of last season, he was ****ing terrible. Released after a couple of games.

If we are strictly talking about players who made league appearances in our two promotion seasons, that means the following are eligible (appearances in brackets): GK: Kelvin Davis (91), Bartosz Bialkowski (1) DF: Frazer Richardson (54), Dan Harding (36), Ryan Dickson (23), Jose Fonte (85), Danny Butterfield (44), Radhi Jaidi (31), Aaron Martin (18 ), Joseph Mills (2), Dan Seaborne (27), Danny Fox (41), Jos Hooiveld (39) MF: Morgan Schneiderlin (68 ), Jason Puncheon (23), Guly do Prado (76), Dean Hammond (84), Adam Lallana (77), Lee Holmes (11), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (34), Oscar Gobern (11), Richard Chaplow (58 ), Dany N'Guessan (6), Dale Stephens (6), Paul Wotton (2), Jack Cork (46), Iago Falque (1), Ben Reeves (2), Steve de Ridder (30) FW: Rickie Lambert (87), Jonathan Forte (11), Lee Barnard (42), David Connolly (41), Nicholas Bignall (3), Billy Sharp (15), Tadanari Lee (7)

Scousers in "thieving ****s" shocker.

I'd largely agree with that sentiment, and it's something Celtic fans warned us about when we signed him, that he feels like he can coast through games against lesser opposition but will turn it on against the big boys. It does seem as though a penny may have dropped with him in the last week or two...

Which part of that statement isn't fair and/or accurate?

And deleted within half an hour of said announcement. The integrity