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FIFA be absolutely raging if he’s still injured for this World Club Cup.

Probably what would happen, but still feels a bigger downgrade than Willock just coming in at LCM.

It’s probably more concerning that Burn’s on 8, given the lack of available cover for him.

Then they died and I went to prison for manslaughter. FTM.

In which case I’ll upgrade him to massively unlucky!

2 out of 30 is 6.66% so if the average is 16.5%, he’s obviously been pretty unlucky, but he’s not miles and miles away from the norm. 5 out of 30 would average, but there’s no doubt someone out there sitting at 8 out of 30 and probably not realising they’ve been very lucky.

Not really, if you were 1 out of 8, you’d be at 12.5%, so just about the average. There’ll obviously be someone out there who’s 2 out of 8, and luck has decreed that they’ve effectively got your ‘1’. However, fully appreciate that the maths is no consolation when you just want to get to a game.

Pushing the ‘modern day’ bit mind!

If he’s on 400 bags a week, he’s got Bahamas written all over him when he retires.

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That’s the bit that’s somewhat problematic…

Wouldn’t surprise me. And for all the pros and cons, it really would make touting massively more difficult. They have it at one of the main stadiums in Turkey (forget which one) but I think that was more related to hooliganism than anything else.

Be interesting to see how they actually implement it. Unless they’re planning on installing face recognition at the turnstiles (extremely doubtful), it’ll probably be manual checks where you get pulled aside upon entry. If these manual checks were targeted, i.e based on info that there’s a different person in the seat every game, then that’s probably no bad thing. If they’re just random, might be a bit more likely to piss people off.

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I’d love to think so too. It’s not my billion and half quid getting thrown into this mind…

They do right now, I agree, but I think that’s a) because it’s so hard to get a ticket (outside of being clued up about resale) and getting a ticket for any game is a really big deal for many at present b) we’re on the upward part of the journey - we’ve won one (magical, magnificent) league cup, will the excitement and the buzz still be same for our fourth one, to go with our 3 league titles, 2 FA Cups, and a CL? Personally, I’m not opposed to them going bigger than ~65k, but I can at least see why they might be reluctant.

66/1 for us to score twice in the first 10 mins. Get into them!

The reason they seem to want to err on the lower side of capacity, is because availability stifles demand. At the minute, you’ve got ballot success rate at something like 20%, probably less, which results in a lot of members applying for every single game, regardless of opposition, because they know how hard it is to get into any game. If you build a big mega, super-duper, monster stadium, that makes it a lot easier to win a ballot, the theory will be that demand will drop off because people can be more choosy about what to apply for because there isn’t overarching threat of never getting to a game.

If they keep letting him get away with what he did to Elliot in the last minute, there’s a chance.

Confirming what everybody already knew. Not one for us I don’t think, despite him obviously being very, very good.

Villa’s games either side of playing us will be the second leg against PSG and an FA Cup semi final.

This is all absolute gold for PIF. A monumentally big event being reported on globally, with no doubt every report referencing the owners. Whether that’s ’sportswashing’ or not is up to every individual to decide, but it’s firmly put to bed the ‘are PIF still interested?’ question if it hadn’t been already.

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