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Things you really hate about the Premier League

At least read your own stupid, shit-stirring posts. This advice: "You sound like you need a holiday old chap." :facepalm:

The subject of this thread is the Premier League not holiday advice. If you have nothing on topic to contribute, please fuck off.

An observation is not advice, as in sure you are well aware. Anyway, enough is enough, let's draw a line and move on.


It was reported in the paper today that Spurs seem to be the latest club to have a rethink on upping prices next year. Following a meeting on Wednesday the supporters trust said they help 'positive talks'
Hopefully this thing will run and run between all clubs. With all the current negative publicity and the current media spotlight what club will dare raise prices now next season?
I'm not daft enough to think this is problem solved, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Hopefully.
 
Here's another crap thing I remembered.

Players who are paid to wear those garish 'Beats' headphones for the cameras as they walk the 20 paces from the team bus to the stadium.

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An observation is not advice, as in sure you are well aware. Anyway, enough is enough, let's draw a line and move on.


It was reported in the paper today that Spurs seem to be the latest club to have a rethink on upping prices next year. Following a meeting on Wednesday the supporters trust said they help 'positive talks'
Hopefully this thing will run and run between all clubs. With all the current negative publicity and the current media spotlight what club will dare raise prices now next season?
I'm not daft enough to think this is problem solved, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Hopefully.
Yes and no. Inflation is near-zero and pay-rises are exactly zero for many people at the moment. So price stagnation is just that - it's not in any way a meaningful cut, and yearly rises predicated on the idea that everyone gets a pay rise every year can no longer be taken for granted.

I'd characterise it as an end to stepping in the wrong direction, but not quite as a step back in the right direction.
 
Yes and no. Inflation is near-zero and pay-rises are exactly zero for many people at the moment. So price stagnation is just that - it's not in any way a meaningful cut, and yearly rises predicated on the idea that everyone gets a pay rise every year can no longer be taken for granted.

I'd characterise it as an end to stepping in the wrong direction, but not quite as a step back in the right direction.

Yeah I'd agree. Also the pricing structures are so complex ('prices frozen for blocks a, n-q and b in categories A, D and F but raised in the remainder unless you purchase them on Tuesday mornings whilst wearing a hat') I think a lot of clubs will freeze the top seats, as Liverpool have seen that's what draws the flak, while sneaking the rises in elsewhere.
 
I could go see the New York Knicks for cheaper than it is to see Liverpool play. Given the relative capacity of stadiums for b-ball and football, it does come over as somewhat greedy to be charging £70 plus quid for a game ticket.
 
tbh the nyk probably more enjoyable to watch.

Only because you can get beer at a baseball game.

Or whichever one of those made up septic sports the 'knicks' play. Where did they get that name anyway, did they used to be the varsity team of the national college of incompetent surgeons?
 
Knickerbockers? I guess every other possible name for a team was already taken when these guys were formed huh?
 
Air Emirates hostesses pointlessly standing on the pitch as the Arsenal players come on or just standing around 'looking pretty' like and adding 'glamour' it's the fucking 1970s or something. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

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I believe the thing that the headphones are wearing to be infinitely worse :rolleyes:


Here's another crap thing I remembered.

Players who are paid to wear those garish 'Beats' headphones for the cameras as they walk the 20 paces from the team bus to the stadium.

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In the Emirates it's more like the 1870's where womenfolk are concerned

Air Emirates hostesses pointlessly standing on the pitch as the Arsenal players come on or just standing around 'looking pretty' like and adding 'glamour' it's the fucking 1970s or something. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

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Those fucking ridiculous Arsenal flags - complete with permanently on-hand lackeys to lift them up on cue to create a TV-pleasing 'event' - are a perfect example of what's wrong with the game. The 'spectacle' has to be controlled by the club - either because the fans are incapable of creatng anything themselves or because they want to get something that looks good for their global TV-rights-boosting appeal.

If I was an Arsenal fan I'd be rightly embarrassed by them.

I like that mahoosive flag that goes up - it lets me know, all the way at the back of the pub, that Giroud might have actually scored for a change. Although that anticipation is usually met with the reality it was a deflection off Flamini's arse. But in answer to the question - Chelsea.....and everything that followed Abramovich.
 
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