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Funny really, I agree with much of what you say, and yet take a different conclusion. How the club stopping people taking the piss causes you to lose a bit of loyalty is unclear to me. By contrast I feel more loyal to the club because they are showing they are looking out for people like me...

But some of the main differences between those transfers are nothing to do with Cucurella. Arsenal stumped up 50m at the start of the transfer window to sign White. If Man City had done exactly the same for Cucurella we'd have accepted it and he'd have gone in good standing. Whereas if Arsenal...

If that is a real photo, then I think it's taken after he kicked it and the ball is quite high in the air at that point

Yeah, but I guess in this case the club did offer to reverse his ban, presumably for this reason, and give it to his son. He just decided to serve his sons punishment. We wouldn't have 15 pages on this if it was the son that was banned

Well it was, I tried to buy a ticket three or four days before the game and it was sold out. Fair enough, not complaining, but it did sell out.

I'm not comparing myself to the season ticket holder, they justifiably deserve the perks. Its the people they give the ticket to that take advantage of the perks that annoys me.

20 over score 141/0 - we saw lower totals in the recent T20 World Cup 50 over score 305/3 - would be a pretty impressive total in a One-Day International If they'd played all 90 overs we'd have scored over 600 in the day. I remember Edgbaston 2005 when we scored 400 on the first day and that...

Its actually impossible in a 3-team group for two teams to play-out a 0-0 draw in the final game and both go through. But there are obviously collusion possibilities, e.g. when a 1-0 suits both sides (unless they both beat the other team in which case its a moot point anyway, or there's some...

I really disagree with this. A season ticket was only ever a bonus for people who knew they could make every single game. In the old days, if you knew you could only make two thirds of the games, and weren't loaded, you just bought matchday tickets. Now it seems people want their cake and eat...

Absolutely, lovely afternoon here, great weather to watch cricket

What could have happened is that he is on his son's Friends and Family? We can buy tickets and assign them to those people, with all the tickets received together. In those circumstances this seems harsh, because the Friends and Family system means a ticket can be bought in your name without...

Haven't bothered posting my results for some time, but I did like today's pattern, it's a first for me Wordle 525 2/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I thought Henderson was a really smart sub, Bellingham might as well not have been in the pitch really, and together with Grealish sparked some life into them for the final 15. Up to Henderson coming on it was all US, so can hardly complain about that one

The PL of course is rich clubs hoarding money and players and trophies and resulting in a totally uneven playing field. The World Cup by contrast is just the best players from each country, you can't buy players from other countries (well, unless you're Qatar lol) - its a much purer form of the...

You watch the premier league and don't quite realise which countries all the players come from. The premier league players in this Portugal side - Bernardo Silva, Neves, Bruno Fernandes, Ruben Dias, Cancelo - alongside Ronaldo - is pretty scary. Would be even scarier if Jota was fit.

No, you want a divide to justify your position. Hence your last sentence.

I get it, I do, but I think its just letting them win. We didn't choose this country to host the world cup, but thats not out fault, the fans nor the players, its still the world cup, the peoples game, not the suits' game, and that's how I'm treating it.

Don't you think that the World Cup belongs to the people of the World? It doesn't belong to FIFA, or to to the Qatar government, or to any of the uber-rich multi-national sponsors. f*** FIFA, f*** the rulers of Qatar, I'm not going to let them take away my enjoyment of the people's game. If...

I actually miss the days when our message board was regularly posted on by fans of Reading, Cardiff, Stoke and Brizzle as we battled promotion from the lower leagues. And Orient, although they never deigned to challenge us for promotion. In the premier league the fans of other teams are...

You're not though, you're on this thread, engaging with what is going on, which by definition means you're not boycotting the World Cup :thumbsup: