nicko31
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Not a great look really. Where do Albion stand on this?
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[Football] Premier League Clubs use of private jets
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Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Thunder Bolt
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For goodness sake, don’t tell anybody the team flew to Wembley from Brighton in 1983.
Who cares? The Riffrafferati have ruined flying, need to close airlines that do not have first class.
Did they? I thought they flew from their hotel base much closer to Wembley than Brighton!For goodness sake, don’t tell anybody the team flew to Wembley from Brighton in 1983.
Edit: Seems it was from Riddlesdown High School in Purley.
- Nov 11, 2009
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I wholly support the team doing so if it means the players have more rest time.
Aviation doesn't pollute as much as shipping which is double and increasing, so anyone attacking a few PL clubs when industrial polluters like China build more coal powered plants really is pissing in the wind.
Does that fact force us to stop buying cheap goods, from a country that is increasing coal power and knowing that is then shipped to UK which is twice as polluting?
When we've done our bit, we'll have every right to insist heavy scheduled PL players sacrifice rest by taking 6-8 hour coach journeys.
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that that sending something via air is between 15 and 50 times worse for the environment than via sea.
nicko31
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Taking a private jets is probably the most carbon intensive thing am individual can do.
In November 2021 the Premier League signed up to the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, which brings together sports organisations from all over the world to achieve climate change goals.
How serious are they, is this just more greenwashing?
League commits to UN Sports for Climate Action Framework
Premier League joins sports organisations across the world in commitment to achieve climate change goals
www.premierleague.com
I'd like to see all PL clubs agree not use them for domestic use. For International travel they should use commercial airlines.
I notice the FA are on the fence as usual, very weak...
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Not sure how easy it is to get to Aston Villa by boat.
Hudson Hawk
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But they flew home and landed in the BHASVIC school field, as i saw them land.
Barham's tash
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Oh I don’t know. Jump on a steamer from Shoreham or the Marina, up the Thames estuary, along the Thames to Limehouse, Grand Union Canal to Brum then there’s actually an Aston Spur!
Braggfan
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Im fairly sure the albion fly to most away games north of London, and have done for a long time.
I did a tour of the training ground a while back and they were saying about they prefer to fly to away games as its less tiring for the players. It means they can get back home in a couple of hours rather than gone midnight if they go by coach.
I did a tour of the training ground a while back and they were saying about they prefer to fly to away games as its less tiring for the players. It means they can get back home in a couple of hours rather than gone midnight if they go by coach.
arewethereyet?
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Yes they do, my office is a few feet away from the VIP suite they go through each time they fly.
mikeyjh
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I've looked a few times at journeys teams have taken flying to away games, it's almost always marginal how much time is saved. Take Brighton to, for example, Villa. 3 hours 10 right now according to Google. I assume Brighton would fly from Biggin Hill? Toy have to load up a coach at Lancing, drive to Biggin Hill, fly to (assume) Birmingham, offload and on top coach, drive to Villa park. Difficult to see how you're going to save much, especially given the environmental cost ...
Cornwallboy
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As long as we win away I couldn't give a s**t if we fly to places, so if it means flying to Bournemouth and Soton and Crawley (Gatwick be handy to land at) then so be it. I wonder how any hand wringing 'it's disgusting' types are flying off on holiday this year.
KZNSeagull
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It's not the journey the team makes per se but the other journeys the plane makes in order to pick up the team. An example given was a plane flying empty from Inverness to Bournemouth to collect the team.
Ooh it’s a corner
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And stop calling him Percy!
RandyWanger
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But if you have enough money, like everyone who flew private to the WEF, COP etc you can justify it by paying for a carbon offset scheme to make the flight 'net zero' and carry on as you were. That **** Bill Gates is a prime example. Emissions will be another tax on the poor, don't fuel the fire by being outraged as shit like this.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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I read that this morning but was hoping to find an actual list of the flights made.
i.e. how many times have BHA (who along with Bournemouth and Newcastle have the most 'valid' reasons to fly) actually flown to/from games this season.
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