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Madrid's highest regional court has struck down the rezoning of the land where the Vicente Calderón's is built, judging it to be against regional laws. This makes Atlético's sale of the Calderón and subsequent move to a new stadium unfeasible.

 

The suit was brought by a supporters group that was opposed to the move.

 

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Actually these numbers are slightly improved as the nation is finally pulling out of recession, but they are still really worrying. TVs forcing schedules that completely shit on the fans don't help at all, also insane pricing schemes that punish casual fans (the ones you want to try to convert into regulars).

 

Teams like Espanyol or Getafe were pulling 70% average 5-6 years ago, for example. Our average was in the mid 80s% under Guardiola but we're spoiled children.

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Why are attendances generally much lower than in Germany and England? Are ticket prices higher? The experience? The location of stadiums and teams in the country?

 

Several reasons:

 

1) Recession. Attendances have cratered these past years. We've had it bad down here (still do).

2) TVs shitting on fans from great height. The scheduling of games is absolutely bonkers. As an example, today we have two 22.00 kickoffs, on a weekday! People have to work tomorrow, those two games will have terrible attendances as a result. The reason is so tellies can show our game (20.00 kickoff) and then the other two, without Barça's game killing the audience of the others.

3) Unreasonably high ticket prices for casual fans. STs are priced allright, but people wanting to attend just a few games per season are put off by the prices. You can't attract new fans like that. Many clubs have answered falling match income by increasing ticket/ST prices in order to gouge their most loyal fans, which has created a vicious circle.

4) No tradition of away travel.

 

Also, due to chance there's a few teams with large followings (Betis, Zaragoza, Sporting...) that aren't in La Liga nowadays.

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The brilliant Madrid game on Sunday started at 6 or 7pm. Great for me. Ridiculous for the fans.

 

20% adult unemployment too.

 

Yeah, the games are exclusively scheduled around maximizing TV audiences for every game - matchgoing fans are just props.

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Also the Spanish FA has implemented a third party ownership ban, as part of UEFA's European-wide ban of the practice. All current contracts will be respected but no new contracts involving third party ownership can be signed by Spanish clubs. That means players finishing their contracts can't extend them until their ownership status is resolved.

 

However, the Spanish club owners association (alongside the Portuguese one) have appealed the prohibition to the EU competition authorities, as they consider it to be "restriction of trade".

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Pretty nice interview with Xavi in one of our regional papers. Says one of his unfulfilled dreams is playing for Athletic Club (not that he could have done it).

 

Says that he's so obsessed with his pitch role that he sits in a corner in rooms and restaurants so he can have a good view of the room and how people are disposed in it :lol:

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Pretty nice interview with Xavi in one of our regional papers. Says one of his unfulfilled dreams is playing for Athletic Club (not that he could have done it).

 

Says that he's so obsessed with his pitch role that he sits in a corner in rooms and restaurants so he can have a good view of the room and how people are disposed in it :lol:

 

:laugh:

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CD San Serván, a Regional Preferente (Spanish 5th tier) team, tricked their rivals in the promotion playoff race via twitter. They tweeted they had lost the last game of the regular season, despite having won. Thinking they had already secured a playoff place, their rivals Racing Valverdeño conceded a draw - this, in fact, gave San Serván the coveted spot.

 

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CD San Serván, a Regional Preferente (Spanish 5th tier) team, tricked their rivals in the promotion playoff race via twitter. They tweeted they had lost the last game of the regular season, despite having won. Thinking they had already secured a playoff place, their rivals Racing Valverdeño conceded a draw - this, in fact, gave San Serván the coveted spot.

 

:lol: That's some idiocy there

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