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To be fair, you could argue that they don’t want to work with local companies and just want McDonalds to come in and cater them. If they want to do it, then it would be possible to work with local companies. As I said, they probably have a general idea of what they use right now, and anyone going into the catering side of it would need to do a forecast and possibly have a few matches where they need to get it right. It’s entirely possible to do, it just comes down to will.

I would fucking love it if he got 2 yellows in his next match.

Yeah, but you have to pay £2,700.

So his 3 match ban has been scrapped. Makes a mockery of both the Premier League, and PGMOL both saying it was the correct call.

What I’m trying to say is that the article will be a lot on conjuncture, opinion etc. There are no real tell tale signs of them selling up in terms of running the club.

There isn’t any suggestion that they are selling us. They are on about a new training ground, new stadium, bringing in a DOF for the women’s team, bringing on new board members etc. It’s all hyperbole.

Yeah, that would be my idea. You have a mix of different vendors. The club will have statistics on what percentage of fans they have in the stadium buying food and such in anyway. It might take a few games to get it absolutely bang on in regards to stock levels etc, but it’s no more or less of a challenge than the club or a catering company doing it.

The club already works with smaller local businesses with the Stack. Both Spurs, and Man City do it, and I think Everton are wanting too as well. Plenty of stadiums in the USA are able to do it as well. It’s entirely possible.

The panel is a mice of ex-pro’s and referees though, isn’t it?

I don’t think they do. You have to remember that Spurs’ stadium is a bit out from central London. It doesn’t have the amount of bars etc that SJP does. On top of this, if we get a say 75k seater stadium, you could have 20k people in the ground earlier than usual and after the match and still have the same amount of people flocking to the city centre. Lastly, there is no reason why the club couldn’t team up with local businesses to have those kiosks ran by them. Get your burger from Meat:Stack, your pint from Anarchy etc all in the ground, both local businesses, and the club earn the money, and you ideally get food better than the overcooked burger Sodexo offer up.

And we are buying Santos.

Their sponsorship deals are still below ours. It think they get less match-day income as well. They have also spent money both in this January, and last summer as well. I doubt that their PSR headroom will be above ours.

We did.

Our history is littered with examples. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27401986.amp Heck, we have even had a penalty incorrectly ruled out after we scored it. This resulted in a 5 minute conversation between the officials to determine what the right result was, and they still got it wrong. Even though this happened in the Championship, the referee was later promoted to the Premier League.

No. We are supposed to be getting long sleeved versions of tops next season, and also the trefoil on one of our away shirts. They were both reserved for other clubs last season. I think our Adidas tie-up has been massively successful. All the shirts have sold well. The Originals training merchandise all sold out, twice over. The Gazelles sold out, the Originals stopped shirt sold well and is largely sold out, the 95-97 home shirt re-make has sold very well.

Every non-top 6 club can give you multiple examples of red cards they have received which are worse. The uproar is because it happened to Arsenal, if it was Wolves who received that red card, absolutely no one would be talking about it.

Doesn’t matter if they do or not, it would be an access to gaining talent from South America. Santos would end up buying everyone in Brazil and elsewhere who showed any promise.

Arsenal fans are kicking off that Michael Oliver has never given us a yellow or red card, this despite the fact that he can’t referee our games because he is a fan. https://www.reddit.com/r/ArsenalFC/s/VeI1C30nZt

That’s generally the plan though.

Get it done.

It’s an excellent move, and shows that we are serious about our women’s team as well. I’m guessing the aim for next season will be promotion into the WSL before they decide to close it off.

The top 6 is not just about league placing. It’s very political. They all vote together, aside for Man City and Chelsea who are more newcomers, they have been instrumental in English football politics since they broke away to form the Premier League. Even since then they have had a hand to play in the attempts to create the ESL. It’s only until recently that controversial refereeing decisions have started to go against them. They have had decades of referees giving them every decision, from the big calls, to the soft yellows that took out an opponents key player out of the game. The media has a love in with them. They tend to get the majority of their games shown on TV. Every sports show, every radio show, all the newspaper headlines are about them. If you were new to football and didn’t have any influences growing up, and in particular live in a no man’s land in the U.K., you wouldn’t support anyone else other than a top 6 club because information and the conversation about anyone else is hard to come across. Even on social media, go on the Premier Leagues Reddit and it’s all them. You can’t put an opinion across against them because you get down voted. The change in KO times for them being on TV helps them create fans across the globe as well. A 12pm Saturday KO is good for those in Asia and the Oceanic to watch. Later KO’s are good for those in America and Canada to watch because it’s during the day there, but before all their major sports start. So even if you want to gain fans across the globe, it’s still harder to do so for a non-top 6 club. The pundits both here in the UK and across the world are increasingly former players of these clubs. Watch SSN and you have an Arsenal fan watching the Arsenal match, and you obviously had Lawrenson for years being a Liverpool love in laughing stock.

I hope our fans reflect like they did with Jonas as they do with Miggy. Jonas was a hate figure up until his cancer diagnosis, then court case against the club. He’s now waved about as if he was a long serving club legend all along.

I’m sad he’s leaving, but I’m happy for him that he’s going back to a club who love him and where his family will be settled.

Well that’s for last season, so hopefully ours has already dropped a little bit. However whatever we lose, we will have to replace, likely on higher wages as well.