James
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@LeeBeeSW @FinnAFC But you do have SC members who have been going for decades when it was £55+ a tkt and through not so good times through their SC so should they just be thrown to one side?
🇦🇷😳 Marcelo Bielsa back in 2024: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline. It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore." "If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football." "For me, the introduction of technology (like VAR) does a lot of harm to football. This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal." "As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."
Southampton away tickets sold out to Gold, Platinum and Travel Club members on Zero away credits. There’s still some Manchester City away tickets remaining.
🚨 WATCH: Robert Jenrick launches a competition where Nigel Farage will pay for a year's worth of household energy bills for an entire street
Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
In terms of financial resources, competitiveness and depth of quality, the Premier League’s strength is unquestionable. And Arsenal, nine points clear, are a top team. nytimes.com/athletic/71276… But this Champions League knockout stage has brought sobering illustrations of a gulf in attacking/creative quality between Real Madrid (Vinicius Jnr, Valverde etc — with Mbappe, Bellingham, Rodrygo injured), PSG (Kvaratskhelia, Barcola, Dembele, Doué, those midfielders, those full backs), Bayern (Kane, Olise, Musiala, Diaz etc) ... and teams whose main creative/attacking stars have struggled for inspiration in the Premier League this season. There are clearly other factors — intensity of the schedule, intensity of the matches, the return to a more physical/attritional playing style — but the lack of elite-level creative/attacking quality in the Premier League has been a concern all season. It has absolutely been underlined so far in the Champions League knock-out stage, where Manchester City (second best defensive record in the PL this season) and Chelsea (joint third best) respectively conceded five goals to Real Madrid and eight goals to PSG. I wouldn't rule out Arsenal to win the Champions League because, unlike the others, they have an outstanding defence. But right now, with Manchester City and Liverpool in a state of expensive flux and Chelsea fixated on an utterly flawed recruitment strategy, it has hard this season to look at the top end of the Premier League and enjoy or applaud the quality of the football. In the Champions League knock-out stage, a drop in quality, as well as a couple of soft underbellies, has been exposed nytimes.com/athletic/71276…
London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy