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I love the new kits each season.  It's part of the pre season.  Why do people feel that they are forced to buy the latest one?? 

there is peer pressure, particularly on children, to have the latest kit

adults don't like to wear the old one either

fwiw i don't wear them but have come up against it with my kids. you don't give in, and wait for christmas and birthdays etc,

its £40+ per shirt, extra for lettering. costs a fortune. Especially if you have a soft spot for Borthwick-Jackson, i expect

seriously though, it's too much.

there is absolutely no need for a new kit each season, the norm used to be every two seasons which was reasonable, unless a sponsor changed etc

Agree with most of them. Ticket allocations for big cup finals (FA,CL) should be more weighted towards fans of the teams playing as well. Most of the time is the clubs biggest match in years (maybe ever) and they only get 1/3 each because 1/3 is allocated to people who have no affiliation with the teams and are just there for the free day out.

no as recently as five years ago the "two year rule" was in place

its pertinent because so much of the demand is under 18s based. Clubs are just exploiting fans, treating them as customers rather than what they are, which is a grouping of fans whose passion compels them to buy them

the goodwill they would get from re-asserting a formal two year rule would be enormous

there is peer pressure, particularly on children, to have the latest kit

adults don't like to wear the old one either

fwiw i don't wear them but have come up against it with my kids. you don't give in, and wait for christmas and birthdays etc,

its £40+ per shirt, extra for lettering. costs a fortune. Especially if you have a soft spot for Borthwick-Jackson, i expect

seriously though, it's too much.

there is absolutely no need for a new kit each season, the norm used to be every two seasons which was reasonable, unless a sponsor changed etc

Leicester still charge per letter.

Football shirts look ridic on any adult, when not playing football, irrespective of lettering. Worse still if accompanied by cords or joggers like some Posh fans I've seen

Well, I think you've just lost all the neutrals wanting Leicester to win the title.

Safe standing. Most away fans just stand all game anyway, and the home fans surrounding them follow suit. Just get a designated area.
Cheap(er) beer, but also the catering can vary from edible to turgid. Why can't KFC have little stands in the grounds and on the concourses?
Why can't the TV schedule be organised and published in line when train fares go on sale? So they have until 12 weeks before a game to fuck about with the schedule, and then if they alter a fixture from there on in then some form of compensation for those who booked up and have since been left out of pocket due to a TV change. Even just rail vouchers to put towards the next booking or something. There should definitely be something in place meaning fixtures can't be touched less than a month before kick off.

... You don't stand at the Opera, or Ballet.

you can buy standing tickets for some Opera and Ballet. Not trying to be awkward.... just saying.

Unrealistic - the fixed equipment cost for a KFC is huge, & could not possibly be economically viable on Match Days only. Cracking grub though.

Cheaper/better beer? No no no. That can only end badly.

Kit changes every year? Daft to blame the Clubs for that. As long as folks buy them, they'll keep changing them.

Tannoy music after a goal? Are you kidding me? It's not pyjama cricket. BAN IT.

Safe standing? No such thing, especially if combined with cheap beer. How many disasters do we want before we realise that grown ups should sit down? You don't stand at the Opera, or Ballet.

Unrealistic - the fixed equipment cost for a KFC is huge, & could not possibly be economically viable on Match Days only. Cracking grub though.

Cheaper/better beer? No no no. That can only end badly.

Kit changes every year? Daft to blame the Clubs for that. As long as folks buy them, they'll keep changing them.

Tannoy music after a goal? Are you kidding me? It's not pyjama cricket. BAN IT.

Safe standing? No such thing, especially if combined with cheap beer. How many disasters do we want before we realise that grown ups should sit down? You don't stand at the Opera, or Ballet.

you can buy standing tickets for some Opera and Ballet. Not trying to be awkward.... just saying.

Dortmund do safe standing pretty well. That stand behind the goal is huge, and has thousands upon thousands in it every home game. Biggest stand in Europe I think I'm right in saying. And converts very easily to an all seater for Euro games.

Would love some popcorn chicken or a boneless banquet before the game.....or now. Sigh.

the article quotes

Compensate fans if late fixture changes - How late? How much compensation? Seems like a legal minefield that is probably best left undetonated.

Introduce safe standing - I'm not sure such a thing exists. Clue is in the name. Calling it "safe standing" rather illustrates how unsafe it is.

Ban tannoy music after goals - Yeah it's utter bollocks. Do away with tannoy "MCs" altogether.

Better and cheaper beer - Agree with this. Blokes are out for 3 or 4 hours before the match in the local so knocking a quid off a pint is hardly going to cause riotous drunkedness.

Prevent clubs from using secondary ticket partners - Agree to a certain extent. Smaller clubs don't necessarily have the resources to implement a ticketing system profitably.

Move the FA Cup final back to 3pm - Don't care. I'll watch it at 3pm or 5:15pm.

Stop kits being changed every season - Not a chance this will ever happen. Grown men wearing kits are a travesty so charging them for a new kit every season leaves less disposable income for them to commit other atrocities.
Sometimes children have to understand that no means no. Not a bad thing.

Introduce wi-fi in grounds - If you thought vuvuzelas were annoying then wait until you have 40,000 simultaneously tweeting about how overrated Michael Carrick is. People moaning about ticket prices then spending half the game looking at their phone.

Restrict number of loans clubs can make - Bring back emergency loans, for goalkeepers only. Whole system is ridiculous.

Adjust prices more fairly for restricted view seats - Buyer beware. Normal ticket £50, restricted view ticket £35. I'd rather watch it in the boozer.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/12151557/After-Liverpool-ticket-price-climb-down-what-are-other-changes-fans-want-to-see.html


agree with these? what else?


i thoroughly agree with not changing kits every season. having experienced it recently, late fixture changes are bad too

tannoy goal music is very irritiating!

for several years, when we scored, "Chelsea Dagger" by the fratellis

I hated it. lets listen to the crowd go bonkers please, don't need it

in recent years, its Kasabian, who are at least a Leicester band, and i don't mind it so much

but still would rather have nothing

It is undoubtedly a fact that atmosphere's in grounds pale compared to what they were even ten years ago, though. several reasons for this, but one will be that the gentrication of an all sitting crowd means its become a less visceral experience much of the time.

It's worse when individual players have their own them track for when they score!!

KFC equipment is more expensive than Mc Donalds ?

Sorry David, but I don't know what equipment they use, I'm not common enough to frequent MacDonalds, I have standards, & taste, & stuff like that.

you can buy standing tickets for some Opera and Ballet. Not trying to be awkward.... just saying.

Tommy

how did you end up in Kazakhstan? what's the story behind that?

(nosey of blonde)

Never knew that.

Where do they congregate?

I managed a first in English language and set about wasting it as much as I could. Got a job with a major gambling firm, holding numerous varied roles then got married to a teacher. Recession hits, prospects wain and my wife gets offered a job in Kaz so I figured I/we had nothing to lose. Undertook a TEFL and an IELTS teaching course and rocked up in Almaty as a high end English language tutor.

How very interesting.
I am visiting Almaty in April.
2 weeks in Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Not sure if serious, but the Royal Opera House has standing tickets.  We went in the cheapest seats a few years ago.  Was an experience.  I would recommend it, after all the upgrade cost us a billion or so.  It is such a nice building, and a waste to leave it to the hoorays.   

I did a count at the interval.  There were 8 bottles of beer and precisely a gazillion bottles of champagne.   Think there were 6 bottles of beer left at the end of the break and we drank exactly 2.

you might not be up for it but if you wanted to do a thread describing Kazakhstan, life there etc, put some pictures up sure a lot of people would be interested

my travel bug lapsed with family and commitments a long time ago, cant imagine ill ever do the former USSR countries

no problem if not, but i think kazakhstan is a first for here

I'd love to have a crack at it mate. I need to know -
A) where to post it
B) how to link pictures

you might not be up for it but if you wanted to do a thread describing Kazakhstan, life there etc, put some pictures up sure a lot of people would be interested

my travel bug lapsed with family and commitments a long time ago, cant imagine ill ever do the former USSR countries

no problem if not, but i think kazakhstan is a first for here

That's cool. If you need a place to crash or someone to show you 'the sights' then I'm sure I can be hospitable enough.

I didn't know, but you can't tempt me to go.

My love for opera is almost as intense as tikay's for a show called The Celebrity T20 Wrestling in the Jungle On Ice Song Contest.

Well played Everton.   

Great news that away games are capped. I spent £41 going to villa park earlier this season for some crap football, but worst of all they couldn't/ wouldn't serve alcohol in the away end.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham were the four clubs who voted against the £30 ticket cap

just lol

It is reported on bbc as unanimous? 

Obviously good news

In my opinion being charged £16 for a conference south game is a bigger scandal than being charged £40 for a premiership game.

Same goes for League Two and League One

gate receipts a much bigger proportion of club income. not as easy to cut

across the 20 clubs in the prem this will cost £33m and all 40 are at least £40m better off from the new deal so its not a big cost to do it

Find this whole thing incredible.  Waiting for Prada to be told they can't sell their shoes for £500 a pair and have to reduce their prices to topman shoe level circa £80 because they are a top end luxury brand and have to appeal to the masses because your average joe who earns the minimum wage can't afford them and we have to pander to his needs because he should be able to afford a luxury product.

Truely comical how a business with a fixed supply of product (ie seats in their stadium) is told how they should under price their product.

Find this whole thing incredible.  Waiting for Prada to be told they can't sell their shoes for £500 a pair and have to reduce their prices to topman shoe level circa £80 because they are a top end luxury brand and have to appeal to the masses because your average joe who earns the minimum wage can't afford them and we have to pander to his needs because he should be able to afford a luxury product.

Truely comical how a business with a fixed supply of product (ie seats in their stadium) is told how they should under price their product.

No doubt about that

However purely on what you are watching you will struggle to see a bigger difference in quality in any sport for something quite closely priced.

Since i have started scouting a lot of "old boys" tell me they cant afford to support their non league side that is madness. Obviously players are paid at that level far to much for their ability.