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Hew
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crouch will be great i think. There is no one like him in the premier league, a very unique player that must be hard to defend against. Looks like we're selling vassell now aswell. I really hope mr o'leary has got someone lined up. Baros, saviola, keane? Any of these will do. If we don't buy another striker then we are well and truly fucked.
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AdamW
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I'll have it, Dave... I was meant to be working next Wednesday... PM me if you've still got it, please 
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Dave w.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:41 Post subject: |
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| do any of the reds on here want a ticket to the champions league game |
That seems suspiciously like touting to me!
You wouldn't be allowed to ask that question on ebay! |
doesn't touting involve inflated prices? as far as i know i'm at liberty to sell a ticket at face value. and if it was ebay i could sell an envelope for £10, with the ticket thrown in as a free gift. (or have they cracked down on that sort of thing yet? not that i've ever done this myself, of course).
adam, i'll send you a pm now. |
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F-H
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 06:14 Post subject: |
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| doesn't touting involve inflated prices? as far as i know i'm at liberty to sell a ticket at face value. |
There was a piece on the cricket show on C4 about the inflated prices for Lords tickets. A spokesperson from ebay was interviewed and said that they were restricted by legislation and not allowed to resell tickets on the site for football. However there was nothing they could do about cricket, wimbledon, gigs etc.
Also I'm sure I remember that in the light of the Taylor and Popplewell reports the statement that police could arrest people who had bought tickets for a friend and handed them over outside a footie ground if no money changed hands or even if it did at face value.
Which, quite frankly, makes the whole touting issue a farce. |
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Dave w.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 18:42 Post subject: |
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nothing ebay can do? surely they can decide what items to list or not list on their own site!
you're probably right about re-selling being illegal, even at face value. i think i've heard of people being arrested for doing that outside anfield while the real touts go about their business unhindered.
to say that the taylor report has been enforced selectively would probably be a bit of an understatement... |
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John Mc
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| Celtic just got beat 5-0 by some team I've never heard of in the Champions League. I feel sorry for Wee Gordon Strachan, I like him. |
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Dave w.
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how difficult is it to get tickets for Premiership games these days? I know it varies depending on the opponents, and I'm sure I haven't a hope in hell of getting into Anfield for the Man Utd game, but I'm hoping to go to some other game in the next few months (maybe the West Ham one) |
i've got a season ticket, so i don't have first hand experience, but i think if you post an application to arrive on or before the first day they go on general sale you should get a reasonable number over the course of a season. there have been quite a few games in the last couple of years that haven't sold out, or only sold out just before. there's no problem getting tickets for midweek league games, but the travel's worse. man utd and everton tickets are usually sold to people who've got stubs from specific other games, so they're no-go in terms of going to as one-offs.
pre-season, with both cl qualifiers selling out quickly might imply that the champions of europe will be more popular next season.
artmedia bratislava? eek. maybe we'd be better drawing a known quantity like everton in round 3
if we get through
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discoRdance
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 22:48 Post subject: |
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thanks for the info, Dave. Didn't have any trouble in the past but the opposition was always some dross like Norwich or Sheffield Wednesday, and I've not been over since the '90s... so have forgotten what I even did. Know an Everton fan over there... do you think it'd be worth it, sitting among a load of bluenoses just to see the derby? Her bf is a Liverpool fan, tho... hmmm...
damn, the West Ham game is on a Saturday.
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Dave w.
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| i think you'd need a pretty thick skin to sit with the blues at a derby. i haven't ever done it myself, and being surrounded by people shouting "murderers, murderers" at me doesn't relly appeal. and you wouldn't be able to celebrate our goals. how bad it would be probably depends on what part of the ground you go in. wouldn't recommend the park end, gladwys street or lower bullens. |
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John Mc
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My uncle had an everton season ticket in the 80's/early 90s and i always used to go to the derbys at Everton in the gladwys street end and don't remember it too bad, there seemed to be plenty of reds around us (the last one i went to was the 4-4, Dalglishs last game in charge so it was a few years ago). But i did go the derby at Anfield a couple of years ago (0-0, Nigel Martyn was amazing) and the atmosphere seemed more tense than it used to be. Its possible that I was young and innocent before and has always been like that but it definitely seemed like things have got worse.
I must have watched the European Cup final 10 times since i got home, i'll be gutted when the season starts properly cos in my mind we're really good now and i've washed away all memories of losing to Southampton and Birmingham and Palace and Burnley and......
Is there anyone here who doesn't reckon Chelsea will win the league? |
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Dave w.
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i always used to go to the derbys at Everton in the gladwys street end ... the last one i went to was the 4-4, Dalglishs last game in charge. |
were you in the group of reds in the gladwys street for that game that the cameras focused on after every goal we scored that night? i was on tv in istanbul, y'know. just before the teams came out. for about a second. they cut it out of the official dvd apparently. bastards.
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Is there anyone here who doesn't reckon Chelsea will win the league? |
no |
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Tommy Tynans Lovechild
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jeff in chicago
hope your daughter is a lucky omen!! off to a winning start! not the greatest of games and, well, 1-1 would've been fairer but we were due a late late winner against reading and what better time than yesterday, 1 minute into stoppage time and Chadwick won it for us! Right in front of over 4000 travelling fans! Top scenes of celebrating, i even managed to put me back out during them but it were worth it!!!
pne won away too so happy championship fans in bc land... for now! |
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Kris
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 21:54 Post subject: |
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....so happy championship fans in bc land... for now! |
None more so than me! 
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sparky
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none more so than me you mean, we were brilliant and completely ran the game down at watford, 2-1 by no means reflected our dominance - we took our foot of the gas and toyed with them in the second half, some top quality passing football.
by spooky coincidence, preston and plymouth both play the same three teams first - watford, derby and reading. going off yesterday's performances we could both have the full nine points by saturday, though it never works out like that does it? certainly i would predict that plymouth will beat watford on tuesday night anyway.
we have derby county tomorrow night in a televised game, and another spooky thing, it is the fourth time we have played them in our last six games!
and a week on saturday we have sheffield united at brammall lane, which looks another easy three points to me (!) |
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jeff in chicago
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 16:18 Post subject: Plymouth whoops Reading |
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TTLC...
I told Campbell (that's the two year old's name) that her team had won!
She says she "wants a popsicle"
That's the spirit!
The four year old stood outside the locked bedroom door of her 12 yr old brother and shouted that he "was a loser" following the Charity shield match...hilarious.
Funnier still...watching highlights of Benfica-Juve, Pavel Nedved takes some Benfica player down really hard. My 4 year old, in a low, very serious and slow voice just looks at the player being attended to and says "Get...Up "...jeez |
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