the_holgate_roof
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Will Chelsea not get any tickets for the semi final, so Wembley will just have the opposition fans in?
Their fans are spoilt rotten. A Wembley appearance means nothing to them anymore. It’s expected. The joy of an occasion like that has long left them.They should have just conceded the tie really for the sake of sporting integrity and the spectacle itself of a Wembley semi final, the thing that got me was the way their fans just started to quietly leave the stadium at the end like it was just another expected Wembley appearance.
Well, sadly after yesterday, the FAC has finished for me for another seasonTheir fans are spoilt rotten. A Wembley appearance means nothing to them anymore. It’s expected. The joy of an occasion like that has long left them.
That is a sad thing to say for football but true.Their fans are spoilt rotten. A Wembley appearance means nothing to them anymore. It’s expected. The joy of an occasion like that has long left them.
How come, surely it would be Chelsea selling the tickets to the fans, the venue shouldn’t matter, same as yesterday.I'm fairly sure the FA are in charge of selling the tickets at Wembley, so they'll be allowed in.
I presume the profits will be withheld from Chelsea though.
How come, surely it would be Chelsea selling the tickets to the fans, the venue shouldn’t matter, same as yesterday.
But haven’t they then just compromised the whole reasoning of the Chelsea ticket ban, the whole purpose is both financial but also the impact on this type of spectacle.It'll be like away matches in the league, where the home club sell a share of the allocation to the away team, but the away club itself sees none of the profits.
The FA cup is different because there's a split in gate receipts, but Chelsea would have got 45% of the gate yesterday even if there had been 0 Chelsea fans, I presume they've had that 45% withheld.
I don't think the FA will want their main competition devalued by preventing one set of fans from attending Wembley, especially when they're still probably paying off the construction costs.
In the semi finals, Chelsea are entitled to 14.63% of the total gate receipts over both ties, regardless of how many tickets they personally sell.
It's not going to have any impact keeping out Chelsea fans specifically, either they withhold the gate receipts from Chelsea or they'd have to prevent all fans.
I think the more likely outcome is that they allow Chelsea fans to attend but ensure that the club doesn't receive it's cut of the receipts.
But haven’t they then just compromised the whole reasoning of the Chelsea ticket ban, the whole purpose is both financial but also the impact on this type of spectacle.
Depends what you mean by 'big teams'.Due to the big gaps in quality likelihood the so called 'big clubs' will always reach the semi finals and final.
Different class as a team to anyone we have played, since Liverpool last time in the EPL, they way they broke through us for the first goal and the way Mount picked out Lukaku is something you simply don’t see at our level. Will have been a bit of a wake up call to some of our players. For me only Tav, Jones and Howson looked like they could make the step up to EPL.I am whispering this, but I have not seen a better team than that for a very long time. From keeper to CF, every one was outstanding. The second half they were still having a stroll in the town centre.