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    We're the Famous Tottenham Hotspur and we're going to Madrid (Travel Thread)

    Could be a three year commitment but paid annually?
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    We're the Famous Tottenham Hotspur and we're going to Madrid (Travel Thread)

    Different points for Gold and Silver season ticket holders too. I think it's an extra +10 points a season along with whatever attendance at the game gives you.
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    Carabao Cup draw - The road to Wembley (Via Milton Keynes!)

    All I know is that West Ham are currently expecting their game to be played on the Tuesday.
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    Carabao Cup draw - The road to Wembley (Via Milton Keynes!)

    Neither us or City will want to do that. Look out for our game being scheduled on the Tuesday and the City game being pushed back to later in the season.
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    Fixture & Ticket News 2017/18

    I don't personally think £25 for a child membership is outrageous. It's the fact that's it's increased by such a large percentage that's ridiculous
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    They have apparently taken professional advice on the valuation for a sale, but I wonder whether they have looked at keeping the freehold and selling the leasehold. A professional operator like AEG or SMG would bring the shared resources and links to promotors to keep bringing in more events...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    But it's not now, and it wasn't before or after the FA bought the old Wembley to redevelop. In 1999 it was The FA who fought off a bid by the US company which later became LiveNation. The land surrounding the stadium, including the Arena, is already owned by a US hedge fund. Perhaps The FA were...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Funny thing is that I'm not really "loyal to The FA" having worked there. Many aspects of the organisation are as as poor as any other that I've worked for, but it just gets more media attention. I saw a few regimes come and go, and wouldn't rate the current one very highly. The FAs...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Selling Wembley is a reasonably good idea. However this goes to the heart of the problem. When the current Chief Exec restructured it appeared that a £10m offer for the first option to buy wasn't finalised. Fast forward two years and now they're considering what seems like a low-ball offer...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Unlikely that much can go wrong for the FA, but there's more risk for the Football League. There are only 10-11 actual FA events at Wembley each year. There's a constant call for the FA Cup semis to go back to neutral grounds, say half of Internationals are rotated around the country, there's a...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    1. Building basic facilities shouldn't be the sole responsibility of the FA. This country has suffered from a chronic and ever reducing level of investment from local authorities. Cuba isn't a great example to be honest, there will always be a talented handful of individuals who rise to the...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    But the concept of a national team is very different to club football. When the England teams travel around the country they are always at 'home'. Germany, Spain, Italy, France.... none have an exclusive home stadium. If The FA sell the stadium... they take England on road, FA Cup Semi Finals...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Then they should know better, because that number is multiples of the actual amount. As I said, Wembley's Financial Statements are online and show that the stadium hasn't hit £10m total capital spend in any year since it opened.
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Where do you get your numbers from? I used to work there and it cost nothing like £50m. The accounts for the year are online so you can see they have never spent anything like that in capital since the stadium opened. The business case was simply to create a recess so that the concert stage...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    As someone who worked for the FA/Wembley I can tell you that is completely wrong. Shad Khan grew up in Pakistan as a fan of English football when Wembley was probably the most iconic stadium in the world. Now he is a billionaire and can afford to buy it. Plus talk was that he never got on with...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    That's so wrong it's ridiculous. You're referring to the FA Council (the blazers) who don't actually have any involvement in the dayvto day running of the organisation. Were the FA obsolete pre 1999? Back then they didn't have the national football centre at Burton either.
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    While the NFL games are in the current format then both stadiums will host games. If an owner decides to move their team to the UK, then the team owner will decide where they want to be based and the staging agreements with either Spurs, Wembley or both will end. Shad Khan would go to Wembley...
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    FA Considering Selling Wembley

    Not at all. This is an idea that has been discussed within The FA/Wembley for at least 4 years. The fact that it's made it to the press now shows that there is a chance it will happen. The FA didn't own the old Wembley until it was purchased to knock it down. The current Chief Exec is more...
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    Season Ticket Renewal Talk

    Not worth arguing about but maybe someone has exaggerated what they've told you. The largest private boxes at Wembley were 20 seaters and that company didn't have one. 400k was only really possible if they bought a Champions League Final as UEFA charged the equivalent of a full year for the one...
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    Season Ticket Renewal Talk

    The largest boxes at Wembley used to be around 250k a year, and prices have come down over the past couple of years. So they must have quite a large bar bill!
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