Football

You listening to Mariah right now?

The ars team looked fairly strong but playing Bendtnar and expecting to score a goal is properly funny

Nice to see the away fans being charged £10... west ham got charged £5 for burnley. Norwich got charged £46 for watching their team get mauled my man u.

Well done to Assaidi for that cracking strike last night as well.. good lad

For those wanting to know about points and spends.
http://transferpriceindex.com/

again.

It was £10 for the bottom tier and £20 for the upper tier. I think these are the prtices that Arsenal were charging their own supporters. Chelsea only charge £20 for League Cup matches and £35 for CL group stage games.

All clubs have been given a sum from television money to spend on their away support. At long last the television companies and FA have realised that way support makes atmosphere. A loud group of away supporters will get the home crowd singing and make the televisual experience all the better.

Chelsea have been providing subsidised travel to some games, particularly in the North East and have subsidised the away ticket prices for one of the games up there.

I shan't be rising to all the Chelsea numpties who are starting to emerge from the woodwork...

Is that the famous woodwork that Liverpool hit so often?

We will really miss Flamini over the next 3 games as we have the last three. :(

http://www.theguardian.com/football/quiz/2013/oct/29/are-you-a-football-hipster

Did anyone take the football hipster quiz yesterday?

We all took it before it was cool.

Is that the famous woodwork that Liverpool hit so often?

Last season, no the season before.. we won that competition easily

the glory just blurs after a while

We will really miss Flamini over the next 3 games as we have the last three. :(

I sincerely hope so

And the one before that we won the beach ball hitting competition with ease

A Chelsea supporter that I know, Dave Johnson of CFCUK, went down to the tube last night to travel home after the match. He saw a couple of Arsenal supporters on the platform.

"Have you been waiting long?"

"About ten minutes" they replied.

"I thought it was more like eight years and counting"

Did they throw him onto the track?

Klopp extends his contract with Dortmund to 2018.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/30/jurgen-klopp-signs-new-contract-borussia-dortmund-2018

Like the idea of Klopp staying with Dortmund and fending off Bayern and trying to win a European Cup with the yellow and black. He joined them in 2008, and if he stays to the end of his new extension it will be a decade with the team, which in new Sky Premiership terms is an eternity...Though not sure if the extension is to tie him in as well as insert onerous sums for poaching clubs to pay if they try to lure him away...

The later.

He won't stay their more than another 18 months

And the one before that we won the beach ball hitting competition with ease

I think Sunderland won that sadly

Tenderoni, thought that might be the case, why I'm always wary of contract extensions for players who are doing well, and getting bumps in salary. Always feel its a way for club to insure they aren't screwed over if bigger money club comes calling..

Release clauses are good for that in general, just have a look at the clauses that Athletic Bilbao write in the contracts for their players. Didn't stop Llorente from leaving for nowt but at least he finished his contract and should Juve sell him they'll get a fair whack for compensation. I kind of like the idea of an agreed release clause. Put in something high and get paid accordingly. You perform, your salary increases and as a result the release fee increases. Javi Martinez is a good example of this. Luis Suarez is the polar opposite, so is Wayne Rooney.

^ Did they ever get to the bottom of whether Suarez actually had a release clause? The mentions of it were very cloudy during the proposed Arse move.

I agree with your point though; if implemented clearly they can be rewarding for all three sides.

Seems it was some clause which no one really understood what it meant.
he probably never read the contract fully before signing it. I think it just stated that if a bid came in for £40million+ Liverpool had to tell him about it. That was all

^ Did they ever get to the bottom of whether Suarez actually had a release clause? The mentions of it were very cloudy during the proposed Arse move.

I agree with your point though; if implemented clearly they can be rewarding for all three sides.

It was a clause that said Suarez would be informed of bids over 40mil

His agent/lawyer read that as release clause and clearly fed Wenger & co that info hence the bid.

There's now talk of a new contract (where there will be a release clause I don't doubt)

Partial stadium closure for the vodka swiggers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24749146

This is going to be messy..

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/30/tottenham-new-stadium-local-business-demolition

Not sure why the council let Spurs get away with the £16m renegotiation clause, and Spurs as a club should have taken the hit.

liverpool have been at it for 30 years
good luck