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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
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Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,141 Views)
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In The Heat of Lisbon
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19 Jun 2016, 03:13 PM
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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20 Jun 2016, 09:37 AM
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eTims offline?
I get an announcement saying 'This account has been suspended.' eTims, that is, not mine.
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20 Jun 2016, 09:46 AM
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The effing state of that
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20 Jun 2016, 10:32 AM
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- 20 Jun 2016, 09:37 AM
eTims offline?
I get an announcement saying 'This account has been suspended.' eTims, that is, not mine. me too, what's happened, have they been forced to clsoe the site?
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old greennose
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20 Jun 2016, 01:06 PM
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eTims back online.
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20 Jun 2016, 03:40 PM
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Ched Evans, who faces a retrial over rape allegations in October, has joined League One side Chesterfield on a one-year deal.
Former Wales striker Evans was jailed in 2012 for raping a 19-year-old woman, but had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in April.
The 27-year-old, who has always denied the charges against him, was released from jail in October 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence.
His last professional game was in 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36575406
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20 Jun 2016, 07:43 PM
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So apparantly a Swedish division 7-player was given a second yellow for letting out a massive fart during a game on Friday
Unsportsmanlike conduct apparently
There's an interview with the poor sod in Aftonbladet and it's is basically nothing but puns from the reporter - it's a work of juvenile genius (that would, unfortunately, take a better translator than me to render into English with the requisite skill)
One of the opposition players is quoted as saying that it could be heard from quite a distance away
Link to the article in Swedish
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20 Jun 2016, 07:54 PM
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- 20 Jun 2016, 07:43 PM
So apparantly a Swedish division 7-player was given a second yellow for letting out a massive fart during a game on Friday Unsportsmanlike conduct apparently There's an interview with the poor sod in Aftonbladet and it's is basically nothing but puns from the reporter - it's a work of juvenile genius (that would, unfortunately, take a better translator than me to render into English with the requisite skill) One of the opposition players is quoted as saying that it could be heard from quite a distance away Link to the article in Swedish ffs
lineker shat himself on the pitch and he's a national treasure
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henrikisgod
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21 Jun 2016, 04:06 PM
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Ibrahimovic announces he's retiring from international football.... I thought he already had
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21 Jun 2016, 05:05 PM
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- 21 Jun 2016, 04:06 PM
Ibrahimovic announces he's retiring from international football.... I thought he already had He wants to devote all his time to the hoops
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Gothamcelt
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22 Jun 2016, 07:31 AM
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Season ticket prices across Europe. Celtic the dearest in Scotland according to this.
How do Scottish football season ticket prices compare to the rest of Europe?
Spoiler: click to toggle GARY ARMSTRONG WE rank the cost of following your top-flight team and see how it matches up with the likes of England, Germany and Spain. BEING a football fan in Scotland is a costly vocation. We fork out fortunes following our teams all over the country in often freezing conditions and, depending on the club, it’s not always a pleasant pursuit. We shell out hundreds of pounds before a ball has even been kicked to book ourselves a seat at the home of our favourites. And we do it out of unwavering loyalty – no matter the price. But are we getting fleeced? Are season tickets way more expensive in the Scottish Premiership than the rest of Europe’s top flights? Here Record Sport Online rates the prices. (Cheapest adult season tickets in SPFL for 16/17 season; final general sale prices after early bird offers) Hamilton £150 St Johnstone £265 Ross County £300 Aberdeen £319 Hearts £325 Motherwell £325 Inverness £330 Kilmarnock £330 Partick Thistle £340 Rangers £375 Dundee £385 Celtic £416 The average price of a Premiership season ticket is £321.67 which works out £16.93 a game. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUEThe entrance fee to Jamie Vardy's party is £395. That's the cost of a 2016/17 season ticket for the English champions, Leicester City . Meanwhile, the cheapest way to watch 19 games of Jose Mourinho's Manchester United is to snap up a season ticket in the Stretford End for £532. Across town, 19 games to witnessing Pep Guardiola lead his new team at noisy neighbours Manchester City costs as little as £299. And westward along the M62 at Liverpool , a season ticket in the Kop, the least expensive stand inside Anfield, will cost you a grand total of £685. In the capital? A cheap-seat at the Emirates prices at a whopping £1,014...and that's with Arsenal having frozen ticket prices for this year. Drive down the Kings Road to Chelsea ? Almost half the price of the Gunners at £595. With the substantial increase in TV revenue for the 2016/17 EPL season, it has been calculated that every top-flight team could offer a stadium-full of free tickets for the entire season, and still rake in every penny of what they made 2015/16. Have the clubs taken the fans up on this proposal? No. CONTINENT’S TOP LEAGUESIf you were to spend your Saturday afternoons in Turin taking in the Old Lady of Italian football Juventus , the minimum you would pay is £384.98 for the privilege. A little further south, in the Italian capital, a seat at the Stadio Olimpico to cheer on AS Roma would be £238.64. This price also includes for one Coppa Italia match as well as the 19 Serie A games, although in this spot in the stadium you may be forced to share your half-time pizza with a Roma ultra in the famous Curva terrace. And what of Germany? The country oft-praised for offering the ultimate football fan experience? For as little as £100.43 you could become a brick in Borussia Dortmund 's famous yellow wall (and they wonder why they never have enough money to stop their star players moving to Bayern). Throw free transport to and from the stadium into the mix, as is commonplace with all football tickets in Germany, and you are getting a pretty tasty deal. Next stop France. Is the City of Love also the City of cheap football? Not quite. A season ticket at the Parc de Princes to watch reigning French champions PSG will set you back at least £346.42. Well, how else do you think they afforded Zlatan's wages? (aside from Qatari investment...). A billionaire's playground on the French Riviera? Perhaps if you're in corporate hospitality. Roughing it in the Stade Louis II away from the prawn baguette brigade with the everyday AS Monaco supporter will take as little as £138.74 from your wallet. What about Spain and the chance to watch what is now the god i really have a chip on my shoulder about the English? Well at Barcelona you can feast your eyes on Messi, Neymar and Suarez for as little as £103. The prices are similar at Real Madrid and in part this is due to both clubs being registered associations where its "socies"/members/fans "own" them. Over the boder in Portugal supporters of Benfica and Porto also pay around £100 a year. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-scottish-football-season-ticket-8238085#mmcxuIJKuL8Ll2Vj.99
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22 Jun 2016, 08:36 AM
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- Gothamcelt
- 22 Jun 2016, 07:31 AM
Season ticket prices across Europe. Celtic the dearest in Scotland according to this. How do Scottish football season ticket prices compare to the rest of Europe?Spoiler: click to toggle GARY ARMSTRONG WE rank the cost of following your top-flight team and see how it matches up with the likes of England, Germany and Spain. BEING a football fan in Scotland is a costly vocation. We fork out fortunes following our teams all over the country in often freezing conditions and, depending on the club, it’s not always a pleasant pursuit. We shell out hundreds of pounds before a ball has even been kicked to book ourselves a seat at the home of our favourites. And we do it out of unwavering loyalty – no matter the price. But are we getting fleeced? Are season tickets way more expensive in the Scottish Premiership than the rest of Europe’s top flights? Here Record Sport Online rates the prices. (Cheapest adult season tickets in SPFL for 16/17 season; final general sale prices after early bird offers) Hamilton £150 St Johnstone £265 Ross County £300 Aberdeen £319 Hearts £325 Motherwell £325 Inverness £330 Kilmarnock £330 Partick Thistle £340 Rangers £375 Dundee £385 Celtic £416 The average price of a Premiership season ticket is £321.67 which works out £16.93 a game. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUEThe entrance fee to Jamie Vardy's party is £395. That's the cost of a 2016/17 season ticket for the English champions, Leicester City . Meanwhile, the cheapest way to watch 19 games of Jose Mourinho's Manchester United is to snap up a season ticket in the Stretford End for £532. Across town, 19 games to witnessing Pep Guardiola lead his new team at noisy neighbours Manchester City costs as little as £299. And westward along the M62 at Liverpool , a season ticket in the Kop, the least expensive stand inside Anfield, will cost you a grand total of £685. In the capital? A cheap-seat at the Emirates prices at a whopping £1,014...and that's with Arsenal having frozen ticket prices for this year. Drive down the Kings Road to Chelsea ? Almost half the price of the Gunners at £595. With the substantial increase in TV revenue for the 2016/17 EPL season, it has been calculated that every top-flight team could offer a stadium-full of free tickets for the entire season, and still rake in every penny of what they made 2015/16. Have the clubs taken the fans up on this proposal? No. CONTINENT’S TOP LEAGUESIf you were to spend your Saturday afternoons in Turin taking in the Old Lady of Italian football Juventus , the minimum you would pay is £384.98 for the privilege. A little further south, in the Italian capital, a seat at the Stadio Olimpico to cheer on AS Roma would be £238.64. This price also includes for one Coppa Italia match as well as the 19 Serie A games, although in this spot in the stadium you may be forced to share your half-time pizza with a Roma ultra in the famous Curva terrace. And what of Germany? The country oft-praised for offering the ultimate football fan experience? For as little as £100.43 you could become a brick in Borussia Dortmund 's famous yellow wall (and they wonder why they never have enough money to stop their star players moving to Bayern). Throw free transport to and from the stadium into the mix, as is commonplace with all football tickets in Germany, and you are getting a pretty tasty deal. Next stop France. Is the City of Love also the City of cheap football? Not quite. A season ticket at the Parc de Princes to watch reigning French champions PSG will set you back at least £346.42. Well, how else do you think they afforded Zlatan's wages? (aside from Qatari investment...). A billionaire's playground on the French Riviera? Perhaps if you're in corporate hospitality. Roughing it in the Stade Louis II away from the prawn baguette brigade with the everyday AS Monaco supporter will take as little as £138.74 from your wallet. What about Spain and the chance to watch what is now the god i really have a chip on my shoulder about the English? Well at Barcelona you can feast your eyes on Messi, Neymar and Suarez for as little as £103. The prices are similar at Real Madrid and in part this is due to both clubs being registered associations where its "socies"/members/fans "own" them. Over the boder in Portugal supporters of Benfica and Porto also pay around £100 a year. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-scottish-football-season-ticket-8238085#mmcxuIJKuL8Ll2Vj.99 Cheers for that, very interesting
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22 Jun 2016, 03:10 PM
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Much hilarity on ITV4 tonight:
The Hand of God: 30 Years On Today on ITV4 from 10:15pm to 11:15pm A look back at one of the most talked about games in the history of football. A few short years after going to war over the Falkland Islands, England and Argentina faced off in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup in front of more than 114,000 fans in the Azteca Stadium. Diego Maradona scored possibly the two most famous goals of the past fifty years. First he punched the ball past Peter Shilton, later describing the goal as being scored 'a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God.' Then four minutes later he scored one of the most brilliant goals of the century. England pulled a goal back and had a chance to equalize, but Argentina held out and went on to win the World Cup. With contributions from Glen Hoddle, Peter Shilton, Terry Butcher, Gary Lineker, Steve Hodge and Kenny Sansom.
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22 Jun 2016, 03:13 PM
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Season ticket prices across Europe. Celtic the dearest in Scotland according to this. How do Scottish football season ticket prices compare to the rest of Europe?Spoiler: click to toggle GARY ARMSTRONG WE rank the cost of following your top-flight team and see how it matches up with the likes of England, Germany and Spain. BEING a football fan in Scotland is a costly vocation. We fork out fortunes following our teams all over the country in often freezing conditions and, depending on the club, it’s not always a pleasant pursuit. We shell out hundreds of pounds before a ball has even been kicked to book ourselves a seat at the home of our favourites. And we do it out of unwavering loyalty – no matter the price. But are we getting fleeced? Are season tickets way more expensive in the Scottish Premiership than the rest of Europe’s top flights? Here Record Sport Online rates the prices. (Cheapest adult season tickets in SPFL for 16/17 season; final general sale prices after early bird offers) Hamilton £150 St Johnstone £265 Ross County £300 Aberdeen £319 Hearts £325 Motherwell £325 Inverness £330 Kilmarnock £330 Partick Thistle £340 Rangers £375 Dundee £385 Celtic £416 The average price of a Premiership season ticket is £321.67 which works out £16.93 a game. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUEThe entrance fee to Jamie Vardy's party is £395. That's the cost of a 2016/17 season ticket for the English champions, Leicester City . Meanwhile, the cheapest way to watch 19 games of Jose Mourinho's Manchester United is to snap up a season ticket in the Stretford End for £532. Across town, 19 games to witnessing Pep Guardiola lead his new team at noisy neighbours Manchester City costs as little as £299. And westward along the M62 at Liverpool , a season ticket in the Kop, the least expensive stand inside Anfield, will cost you a grand total of £685. In the capital? A cheap-seat at the Emirates prices at a whopping £1,014...and that's with Arsenal having frozen ticket prices for this year. Drive down the Kings Road to Chelsea ? Almost half the price of the Gunners at £595. With the substantial increase in TV revenue for the 2016/17 EPL season, it has been calculated that every top-flight team could offer a stadium-full of free tickets for the entire season, and still rake in every penny of what they made 2015/16. Have the clubs taken the fans up on this proposal? No. CONTINENT’S TOP LEAGUESIf you were to spend your Saturday afternoons in Turin taking in the Old Lady of Italian football Juventus , the minimum you would pay is £384.98 for the privilege. A little further south, in the Italian capital, a seat at the Stadio Olimpico to cheer on AS Roma would be £238.64. This price also includes for one Coppa Italia match as well as the 19 Serie A games, although in this spot in the stadium you may be forced to share your half-time pizza with a Roma ultra in the famous Curva terrace. And what of Germany? The country oft-praised for offering the ultimate football fan experience? For as little as £100.43 you could become a brick in Borussia Dortmund 's famous yellow wall (and they wonder why they never have enough money to stop their star players moving to Bayern). Throw free transport to and from the stadium into the mix, as is commonplace with all football tickets in Germany, and you are getting a pretty tasty deal. Next stop France. Is the City of Love also the City of cheap football? Not quite. A season ticket at the Parc de Princes to watch reigning French champions PSG will set you back at least £346.42. Well, how else do you think they afforded Zlatan's wages? (aside from Qatari investment...). A billionaire's playground on the French Riviera? Perhaps if you're in corporate hospitality. Roughing it in the Stade Louis II away from the prawn baguette brigade with the everyday AS Monaco supporter will take as little as £138.74 from your wallet. What about Spain and the chance to watch what is now the god i really have a chip on my shoulder about the English? Well at Barcelona you can feast your eyes on Messi, Neymar and Suarez for as little as £103. The prices are similar at Real Madrid and in part this is due to both clubs being registered associations where its "socies"/members/fans "own" them. Over the boder in Portugal supporters of Benfica and Porto also pay around £100 a year. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-scottish-football-season-ticket-8238085#mmcxuIJKuL8Ll2Vj.99
Cheers for that, very interesting £416 is minus the sevco games
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22 Jun 2016, 03:29 PM
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Season ticket prices across Europe. Celtic the dearest in Scotland according to this. How do Scottish football season ticket prices compare to the rest of Europe?Spoiler: click to toggle GARY ARMSTRONG WE rank the cost of following your top-flight team and see how it matches up with the likes of England, Germany and Spain. BEING a football fan in Scotland is a costly vocation. We fork out fortunes following our teams all over the country in often freezing conditions and, depending on the club, it’s not always a pleasant pursuit. We shell out hundreds of pounds before a ball has even been kicked to book ourselves a seat at the home of our favourites. And we do it out of unwavering loyalty – no matter the price. But are we getting fleeced? Are season tickets way more expensive in the Scottish Premiership than the rest of Europe’s top flights? Here Record Sport Online rates the prices. (Cheapest adult season tickets in SPFL for 16/17 season; final general sale prices after early bird offers) Hamilton £150 St Johnstone £265 Ross County £300 Aberdeen £319 Hearts £325 Motherwell £325 Inverness £330 Kilmarnock £330 Partick Thistle £340 Rangers £375 Dundee £385 Celtic £416 The average price of a Premiership season ticket is £321.67 which works out £16.93 a game. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUEThe entrance fee to Jamie Vardy's party is £395. That's the cost of a 2016/17 season ticket for the English champions, Leicester City . Meanwhile, the cheapest way to watch 19 games of Jose Mourinho's Manchester United is to snap up a season ticket in the Stretford End for £532. Across town, 19 games to witnessing Pep Guardiola lead his new team at noisy neighbours Manchester City costs as little as £299. And westward along the M62 at Liverpool , a season ticket in the Kop, the least expensive stand inside Anfield, will cost you a grand total of £685. In the capital? A cheap-seat at the Emirates prices at a whopping £1,014...and that's with Arsenal having frozen ticket prices for this year. Drive down the Kings Road to Chelsea ? Almost half the price of the Gunners at £595. With the substantial increase in TV revenue for the 2016/17 EPL season, it has been calculated that every top-flight team could offer a stadium-full of free tickets for the entire season, and still rake in every penny of what they made 2015/16. Have the clubs taken the fans up on this proposal? No. CONTINENT’S TOP LEAGUESIf you were to spend your Saturday afternoons in Turin taking in the Old Lady of Italian football Juventus , the minimum you would pay is £384.98 for the privilege. A little further south, in the Italian capital, a seat at the Stadio Olimpico to cheer on AS Roma would be £238.64. This price also includes for one Coppa Italia match as well as the 19 Serie A games, although in this spot in the stadium you may be forced to share your half-time pizza with a Roma ultra in the famous Curva terrace. And what of Germany? The country oft-praised for offering the ultimate football fan experience? For as little as £100.43 you could become a brick in Borussia Dortmund 's famous yellow wall (and they wonder why they never have enough money to stop their star players moving to Bayern). Throw free transport to and from the stadium into the mix, as is commonplace with all football tickets in Germany, and you are getting a pretty tasty deal. Next stop France. Is the City of Love also the City of cheap football? Not quite. A season ticket at the Parc de Princes to watch reigning French champions PSG will set you back at least £346.42. Well, how else do you think they afforded Zlatan's wages? (aside from Qatari investment...). A billionaire's playground on the French Riviera? Perhaps if you're in corporate hospitality. Roughing it in the Stade Louis II away from the prawn baguette brigade with the everyday AS Monaco supporter will take as little as £138.74 from your wallet. What about Spain and the chance to watch what is now the god i really have a chip on my shoulder about the English? Well at Barcelona you can feast your eyes on Messi, Neymar and Suarez for as little as £103. The prices are similar at Real Madrid and in part this is due to both clubs being registered associations where its "socies"/members/fans "own" them. Over the boder in Portugal supporters of Benfica and Porto also pay around £100 a year. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-scottish-football-season-ticket-8238085#mmcxuIJKuL8Ll2Vj.99
Cheers for that, very interesting
£416 is minus the sevco games Cliftonville is £130
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22 Jun 2016, 07:06 PM
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So apparantly a Swedish division 7-player was given a second yellow for letting out a massive fart during a game on Friday Unsportsmanlike conduct apparently There's an interview with the poor sod in Aftonbladet and it's is basically nothing but puns from the reporter - it's a work of juvenile genius (that would, unfortunately, take a better translator than me to render into English with the requisite skill) One of the opposition players is quoted as saying that it could be heard from quite a distance away Link to the article in Swedish
ffs lineker shat himself on the pitch and he's a national treasure The Guardian have now done what I could not be bothered with and done an article about it
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22 Jun 2016, 07:44 PM
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Season ticket prices across Europe. Celtic the dearest in Scotland according to this. How do Scottish football season ticket prices compare to the rest of Europe?Spoiler: click to toggle GARY ARMSTRONG WE rank the cost of following your top-flight team and see how it matches up with the likes of England, Germany and Spain. BEING a football fan in Scotland is a costly vocation. We fork out fortunes following our teams all over the country in often freezing conditions and, depending on the club, it’s not always a pleasant pursuit. We shell out hundreds of pounds before a ball has even been kicked to book ourselves a seat at the home of our favourites. And we do it out of unwavering loyalty – no matter the price. But are we getting fleeced? Are season tickets way more expensive in the Scottish Premiership than the rest of Europe’s top flights? Here Record Sport Online rates the prices. (Cheapest adult season tickets in SPFL for 16/17 season; final general sale prices after early bird offers) Hamilton £150 St Johnstone £265 Ross County £300 Aberdeen £319 Hearts £325 Motherwell £325 Inverness £330 Kilmarnock £330 Partick Thistle £340 Rangers £375 Dundee £385 Celtic £416 The average price of a Premiership season ticket is £321.67 which works out £16.93 a game. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUEThe entrance fee to Jamie Vardy's party is £395. That's the cost of a 2016/17 season ticket for the English champions, Leicester City . Meanwhile, the cheapest way to watch 19 games of Jose Mourinho's Manchester United is to snap up a season ticket in the Stretford End for £532. Across town, 19 games to witnessing Pep Guardiola lead his new team at noisy neighbours Manchester City costs as little as £299. And westward along the M62 at Liverpool , a season ticket in the Kop, the least expensive stand inside Anfield, will cost you a grand total of £685. In the capital? A cheap-seat at the Emirates prices at a whopping £1,014...and that's with Arsenal having frozen ticket prices for this year. Drive down the Kings Road to Chelsea ? Almost half the price of the Gunners at £595. With the substantial increase in TV revenue for the 2016/17 EPL season, it has been calculated that every top-flight team could offer a stadium-full of free tickets for the entire season, and still rake in every penny of what they made 2015/16. Have the clubs taken the fans up on this proposal? No. CONTINENT’S TOP LEAGUESIf you were to spend your Saturday afternoons in Turin taking in the Old Lady of Italian football Juventus , the minimum you would pay is £384.98 for the privilege. A little further south, in the Italian capital, a seat at the Stadio Olimpico to cheer on AS Roma would be £238.64. This price also includes for one Coppa Italia match as well as the 19 Serie A games, although in this spot in the stadium you may be forced to share your half-time pizza with a Roma ultra in the famous Curva terrace. And what of Germany? The country oft-praised for offering the ultimate football fan experience? For as little as £100.43 you could become a brick in Borussia Dortmund 's famous yellow wall (and they wonder why they never have enough money to stop their star players moving to Bayern). Throw free transport to and from the stadium into the mix, as is commonplace with all football tickets in Germany, and you are getting a pretty tasty deal. Next stop France. Is the City of Love also the City of cheap football? Not quite. A season ticket at the Parc de Princes to watch reigning French champions PSG will set you back at least £346.42. Well, how else do you think they afforded Zlatan's wages? (aside from Qatari investment...). A billionaire's playground on the French Riviera? Perhaps if you're in corporate hospitality. Roughing it in the Stade Louis II away from the prawn baguette brigade with the everyday AS Monaco supporter will take as little as £138.74 from your wallet. What about Spain and the chance to watch what is now the god i really have a chip on my shoulder about the English? Well at Barcelona you can feast your eyes on Messi, Neymar and Suarez for as little as £103. The prices are similar at Real Madrid and in part this is due to both clubs being registered associations where its "socies"/members/fans "own" them. Over the boder in Portugal supporters of Benfica and Porto also pay around £100 a year. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-scottish-football-season-ticket-8238085#mmcxuIJKuL8Ll2Vj.99
Cheers for that, very interesting
£416 is minus the sevco games No it's not.
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22 Jun 2016, 11:03 PM
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I think the notts based lads have monoply on this one
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25 Jun 2016, 08:40 AM
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As long as I get to watch them twice at Parkhead getting pumped, go ahead.
‘Play Celtic v Rangers abroad or it will lose global appeal’
Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH The man who wanted to stage a Celtic-Rangers derby at Wembley says the fixture must go on the road or else it will lose its global appeal forever. The two Glasgow clubs will be confronting each other in next season’s top flight following a four-year absence of the sort of league confrontations that gave Scotland’s bitterest footballing rivalry an international renown. However, Charlie Stillitano, the Relevant Sports chairman whose company is behind the International Champions Cup that will see Celtic play Leicester City, Barcelona and Internazionale next month, believes that without creating a new audience for the rivalry it will fade into obscurity beyond these borders. “We had the idea for a Rivalry Cup in America. They tell me I’m insane!” said Stillitano, who claims he believes in respecting brands and meritocracy – despite attracting controversy earlier in the year by holding discussions about a breakaway European super league that involved the big five footballing nations. “The plan was to have River-Boca, Celtic-Rangers, Roma-Lazio – all the really friendly rivalries. “One of the things that was strange is that some of these games really translate well into North America. We think a Celtic-Rangers rivalry in the US wouldn’t be anywhere near like it is in Scotland. The idea was to do one in Toronto, one in Boston and that it would be a fun thing to do. “We just could never make it work – due to genuine concerns over security. “But these are the types of events we should do before this rivalry dies. Or that it becomes so local that people don’t understand the beauty of Celtic-Rangers. We want to host it away from Scotland, whether that is Wembley, Asia or North America. I’d like to do it every year, or at least every couple of years. It’s completely safe in North America but I also think it could be managed at a place like Wembley. They are used to the biggest events in the world. How could they not handle it? “One of the problems you have with clubs like Celtic and Napoli, who have fans all around the world, is that the support is dying in these
places. “It’s a challenge because the kids are all growing up supporting other teams. If we don’t start taking Celtic-Rangers across the world, then the support is only going to be local for these teams. Then, eventually, it will die out across the world because the kids of Celtic fans now follow Barcelona or Bayern Munich instead.” Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/celtic/play-celtic-v-rangers-abroad-or-it-will-lose-global-appeal-1-4163163#ixzz4CZhD0vJ9 Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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25 Jun 2016, 10:37 AM
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- Gothamcelt
- 25 Jun 2016, 08:40 AM
As long as I get to watch them twice at Parkhead getting pumped, go ahead. ‘Play Celtic v Rangers abroad or it will lose global appeal’Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH The man who wanted to stage a Celtic-Rangers derby at Wembley says the fixture must go on the road or else it will lose its global appeal forever. The two Glasgow clubs will be confronting each other in next season’s top flight following a four-year absence of the sort of league confrontations that gave Scotland’s bitterest footballing rivalry an international renown. However, Charlie Stillitano, the Relevant Sports chairman whose company is behind the International Champions Cup that will see Celtic play Leicester City, Barcelona and Internazionale next month, believes that without creating a new audience for the rivalry it will fade into obscurity beyond these borders. “We had the idea for a Rivalry Cup in America. They tell me I’m insane!” said Stillitano, who claims he believes in respecting brands and meritocracy – despite attracting controversy earlier in the year by holding discussions about a breakaway European super league that involved the big five footballing nations. “The plan was to have River-Boca, Celtic-Rangers, Roma-Lazio – all the really friendly rivalries. “One of the things that was strange is that some of these games really translate well into North America. We think a Celtic-Rangers rivalry in the US wouldn’t be anywhere near like it is in Scotland. The idea was to do one in Toronto, one in Boston and that it would be a fun thing to do. “We just could never make it work – due to genuine concerns over security. “But these are the types of events we should do before this rivalry dies. Or that it becomes so local that people don’t understand the beauty of Celtic-Rangers. We want to host it away from Scotland, whether that is Wembley, Asia or North America. I’d like to do it every year, or at least every couple of years. It’s completely safe in North America but I also think it could be managed at a place like Wembley. They are used to the biggest events in the world. How could they not handle it? “One of the problems you have with clubs like Celtic and Napoli, who have fans all around the world, is that the support is dying in these
places. “It’s a challenge because the kids are all growing up supporting other teams. If we don’t start taking Celtic-Rangers across the world, then the support is only going to be local for these teams. Then, eventually, it will die out across the world because the kids of Celtic fans now follow Barcelona or Bayern Munich instead.” Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/celtic/play-celtic-v-rangers-abroad-or-it-will-lose-global-appeal-1-4163163#ixzz4CZhD0vJ9 Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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