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Well, surely publicly subsidised West Ham United wouldn't defraud HMRC - that would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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I suspect that the system will feel more broken this season than it has before. I'm usually in the top bracket for away games, sometimes the second, but I feel it's wrong that I get additional points for buying tickets to a game, when I can only get a ticket due to the points I already have...

"We're going up as f***ing champions!"

... and in particular the comment: "... 70’s line-up Utopia. Chris is old school. He MUST have been tempted." I would have.

Those consecutive away games against Charlton and Peterborough that we won 3-0 and 4-0 iirc. It seemed almost wrong seeing an Albion team look untouchable.

Brexiteers whined for 40 years. They were never told that they didn't have a right to an opinion. So why are they trying to tell me that I can't? The result of an advisory referendum doesn't prevent people having contrary views, any more than a General Election result does. You're like a Boro...

Me too! I'm not blaming all of us!

You've just demonstrated the exact opposite. In a democracy, people can disagree. Saying that older people have benefited from 40 years of EU-inspired peace, stability and prosperity, then pulled up the drawbridge for younger generations who have grown up as European citizens and will now...

This government is committed to ending Freedom of Movement. The EU parliament will insist on rights being reciprocal. So, unless the UK approach changes pretty dramatically then, in two years' time, my kids and I will not have the right to live, work, and study in the other 27 EU countries...

That gives you a reason to be blasé, but for the half of us whose only way of having a EU passport is our UK citizenship, we won't have the *right* to live/work/study in the rest of the EU anymore, unless the government does a massive u-turn on freedom of movement.

... and not the fact that, if Brexit goes ahead, I'll be giving up a passport that gives me the right to live, work and study in 28 countries - and it'll be replaced by one that enables me to live, work and study in one. How on earth can people be so blasé about this?

I'm sure Barber's approach to things make sense looking at the balance sheet on a match-by-match basis. But this sort of thing (which, iirc, we were planning to do not long after moving to Falmer, until the ticketing system changed) would, I suspect, be much better for expanding the fan base...

That has probably been true until now. But if they can find a way of staying in the EU through independence, with May setting the UK on course for hard brexit, then that might all change.

Bloody Kraftwerk

I'd go for Theusz Hamtaahk by Magma. Not just non-English, but non-Planet Earth, as it's sung in Kobaian, an 'alien' language their drummer made up. It's a work of genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYnuhIlnIU

Hughton's post-match interview on Player last night made it sound as though Forren is very much signed for cover, so I don't see any reason for Uwe to feel umdermined. Mind you, the man himself sounded really ambitious, wanting to get into the team and help Albion to the Premier League.

Besides this not being a good way to go about solving something, I have to say that if you're a 50+ year old long-term fan (that'll be me), the suggestion that you'd have to show ID simply to attend a domestic match is quite emotional, and not in a good way - it's way too reminiscent of a time...

How about saying they think there's an issue and why it's important, showing some evidence of it and the scale of it, then consulting with fans over what, if anything to do about it?

Fair question. And as I hinted, I'm not a hotshot lawyer. But it's very hard to imagine them being able to *insist* on a ID check and ticket match either in the street or inside the stadium being visited. We're not talking about Falmer here.