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| I haven't got a problem with this idea. Many of the arguments against are bollocks. So what if the ordinary fan can't go... this 39th game is just like another away game. Only a minority max 3,000 can usually go to away games only; the arguments make it sound like everybody is losing out. Also the league isn't a level playing field anyway; any game can be affected by a poor refereeing decision; you play teams at different times when they might be affected by injuries and suspensions etc...this is luck, just like who draw in the extra game. And then they come up with the bollocks global warming issue; as soon as anybody uses this in any argument I automatically switch off. Some people just don't like change and progress; I think if the internet was about in the 1950s people would be coming out with all these objections about the formation of the European Cup. |
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| This is a genuine question and I'm not trying to be smart, but why all the opposition to an EXTRA game? I can't see the harm in introducing it for a trial period of three years, I'd certainly love to go to a game like this, or is that being too simplistic? |
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| I'm match going, had my season ticket since 1977 and been going since the early 70's. I never miss at home, it's an extra game, so no one is missing out really. I know that they have started doing this in the NFL and I have to admit, the New Orleans Saints season ticket holders I know aren't happy about the Wembley game, but the American sports fan is NOWHERE as loyal or fanatical as their European counterparts, they don't even go to their 'road' games during the season in their own country. I think we're being a bit insular in our outlook on this subject, we're lucky because we have a team that goes regularly into Europe but I can see fans of some 'smaller' teams actually embracing this idea. As I said, a three year trial period would be a good guide to people's thoughts on the idea. As an example, I can guarantee that if Liverpool were to play Everton in New York there would be 30,000 minimum travelling from Merseyside to watch it. |
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| Not a bad idea on the face of it. We're in 2008, football for the true/ordinary supporter ceased to exist in 1992/93. In my opinion we've left it 15 or 16 years too late to start the fight for the sport. I'm probably coming to the end of my match going days and if I'm really true with myself I only keep my season ticket up year after year so my son can have it, I'd be surprised if I'm still going in 3 seasons time; if he said he wasn't arsed about going then I'd have no hesitation in packing it in. But football and English football in particular will continue to evolve with or WITHOUT the match going supporter, globalisation and technology will take football to another level within the decade. |
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