The 39th Game

[robbo1874]

One bonus, if we have to play away to Crystal Palace in Melbourne, at least it will be easier to get to.

i'm sure Damo70 would be right behind that proposal!

[Damo70]

One bonus, if we have to play away to Crystal Palace in Melbourne, at least it will be easier to get to.

i'm sure Damo70 would be right behind that proposal!

As it happens Melbourne is my favourite city in the world. We would still lose though.

[lovejoy]

One bonus, if we have to play away to Crystal Palace in Melbourne, at least it will be easier to get to.

i'm sure Damo70 would be right behind that proposal!

As it happens Melbourne is my favourite city in the world. We would still lose though.

For some, I was home by 545 last season!

[RichardBatchelor]

Inter-galactic 40th game next perhaps ?

Yep. It's so wrong doesn't even bear discussion. Greedy t***s.

[brian green]

I think at least three active theatres of war should be included in the venues, say Aleppo, Kabul and the Crimea but only after Scudamore had personally checked out the lie of the land carrying a large union jack.  In the event of a SNAFU the tabloids could blame a Scud missile.

[peter w]

This is like an unpopular tax rise. You leak it in December and everyone rounds on it. Nothing is released or said officially by the govt and it dies a death. A couple of months later its leaked with slightly more information and to more catcalls the govt announce they are looking at a whole range of taxation and policy areas. Come summer the issue is dropped into dispatches every now and then. Come the autumn budget when the tax rise is announced everyone shrugs saying, "well, we knew it was coming". Wear 'em down, son, wear 'em down.

[Ads]

I don't agree with your assessment.

This is, as has been aptly described, the Rubicon for a lot of supporters. If its crossed, then I don't intend to shrug my shoulders, I intend to stop going to the Villa altogether.

[peter w]

well yes and now. i won't stop following Villa whichever division they were in. And the 39th game isn't devised for the likes of us. I wouldn't mind seeing the bigger clubs sod off anyway, but as has been said it's unlikely to happen.

[brian green]

My younger son tried to raise the issues associated with the Qatar World Cup at the Labour Party conference. He was advised that every Premiership club was on the Qatar gravy train and resistance would make no difference. The 39th game will be exactly the same.

[cdbearsfan]

Fans can make a difference. They can't push this through without a vote of club chairmen. Fans can put pressure on said chairmen to vote against.

You might think they won't listen, but recent history North of the border suggests otherwise. When Rangers broke the rules, and got into huge debt spending money they didn't have, they applied for readmittance to the top flight as a Newco. Pretty much all SPL chairmen were going to vote for this but after huge pressure and threats of season ticket boycotts they caved in and all (with the exception of Kilmarnock, I think) voted not to let Rangers in.

Supporter power in action.

No reason why English fans can't behave likewise and force their clubs' owners to listen.

[cheltenhamlion]

I can assure you The Trust would man the barricades if we wanted to sign up to this drivel.

At least it gave me something to write about for the next H+V. I had forgotten about that wanker Scudamore.

[Comrade Blitz]

Apologies if this has been posted already.

The Bundesliga would never consider playing matches overseas because it would not want to alienate fans who watch their teams “through rain and shine”, the German league’s chief executive, Christian Seifert, said.

[cheltenhamlion]

Give this the green light and where would it stop? Within 15 years half your games would be played in the city of the highest bidder.

Opening 3 home games in Brisbane, Buenos Aires and Baku.

Away to the Olbiyun. In Boston, MA.

Fuck right off.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't think I could take the endless "Bostin'" puns if we played West Brom there.

[hipkiss92]

Fans can make a difference. They can't push this through without a vote of club chairmen. Fans can put pressure on said chairmen to vote against.

You might think they won't listen, but recent history North of the border suggests otherwise. When Rangers broke the rules, and got into huge debt spending money they didn't have, they applied for readmittance to the top flight as a Newco. Pretty much all SPL chairmen were going to vote for this but after huge pressure and threats of season ticket boycotts they caved in and all (with the exception of Kilmarnock, I think) voted not to let Rangers in.

Supporter power in action.

No reason why English fans can't behave likewise and force their clubs' owners to listen.

I imagine this is the kind of thing which could get supporters organised into affecting the game. Ie. organised walkouts 15 mins into matches, ticket boycotts, walls of silence in the stands.