There’s bad news and then there’s even worse news for our dear old chums at Manchester Bankrupt. There is a thing called base rate – interest rates are worked out on that. It stands at 5%, which means that your mortgage costs you a bit more than that – maybe 7%. So it is with…
This is not the only day I have felt bad about football. Like when we lost to Wrexham in the Cup – I can still remember the feeling the next morning. Took me days to get over that. Or when we lost 6-1 to Manchester Bankrupt (or Manchester U as they were known in those…
Bischoff and Coquelin – both played for about an hour in the reserve game vs Stoke City – Bischoff went off first after around 55 minutes – presumably a sensible precaution for a guy who hasn’t played for a year or whatever it is. Coquelin: I don’t know why he went off – but we…
Nearly a year ago the major football clubs in Europe agreed to drop their legal case against Uefa and Fifa over injuries sustained by players while playing for countries rather than clubs. As a result the clubs now get some money from the countries when there are international tourneys. But as we have seen the…
From 1 January 2009 Fifa – the organisation described by a judge in a legal case over sponsorship as having “lied and lied and lied again” in its evidence – is to try and stop the transfer of teenage players across national boundaries. In future a committee, selected by the discredited organisation, will examine the…
The Tiny Fantasists who inhabit a “football club” in Tottenham High Street, have been told by Office of Fair Trading that they should not ever tell their fans that tickets are non-refundable under any circumstances. It is a basic, and obvious point, and you don’t need to be a lawyer to know how wrong they…
The Lord Wenger has made it clear that come what may the Infants School XI will always play in the Diddly Widdly Carling Cup – rather amusingly when most of them are not allowed to get involved with the sponsor’s product. Now that the club has been drawn against Plymouth in the 3rd round of…
The point of life is to keep changing. (OK no one else has to follow my dictum of course, but that’s what has kept me going all these years, and it seems to serve me well). So today I am venturing (in an hour or so) to do something very different. Instead of sitting watching…
Funny old game. At half time it was Bristol 1 Arsenal 0. Or if you were watching the other one it was the Russians 1 Arsenal 0. Given that Arsenal had won every single game this season, and last season the score at Bristol, where I was, was a bit of a shock. You know…
Well, that’s the theory. VAT comes down on Monday from 17.5% to 15% and there is, of course, VAT on ticket prices. So will we see a decline in prices? If Arsenal applied the discount then £50 tickets would be priced £48.94. Since they won’t do this then the club is in effect raising prices…
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