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During a week when Wheel of Fortune made history by paying out its highest ever cash prize to a marketing manager from Connecticut, the first of the 4.5 million fans who have applied for Geopolitics World Cup tickets were selected to buy them through the system Fifa has named after the long-running American gameshow. While Christina Derevjanik walked away with $1,035,155, two different holidays and the best wishes of co-hosts Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White, those who got lucky in the Fifa equivalent will have to pay handsomely for the privilege of getting to watch matches despite not having the foggiest idea who will be playing in them until the draw is made. Although a certain, very small number of tickets for some group games will start at $60 (£44), for anyone who doesn’t mind sitting nearer the Kármán line than the halfway line, the key word is “start” because they could go for a lot more given Fifa’s decision to channel their inner Oasis and embrace the wheeze of dynamic pricing. With the cheapest tickets for next year’s final starting at $2,030 and the most expensive starting at $6,000, England fans hoping to see their team lift the trophy in New Jersey will be forced to budget and may have to stick considerably cheaper pre-match firecrackers where the sun don’t shine.
Am I among 1,057 who have gone from automatically supporting English teams (even Arsenal) on European nights to rather hoping that anyone will beat one of the moneybags teams, or is it just me?” – Bob Cushion (and no others).
A response to Martin Fisher (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) about fixture congestion: all you have to do is look at a fixture list to see that clubs play more than twice a week. From 13 September to 4 October (three weeks), Arsenal will have played seven games. That is 2.33 games per week” – Thabo Caves.
Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday is eight days. Last time I looked a week was seven days. Also, you can’t have a Saturday being the last of three games in one week and the first of the next set of games the following week, if you start counting it twice will they be worth six points? Will relegation matches become 12-pointers? That’s all Southampton got last season” – Chris Harrison.
How disappointing that ref Adam Herczeg missed a trick by only sending Chris Wilder to the stand after booting the ball smack in the choppers of some poor, hapless Blades fan at half-time (yesterday’s Football Daily). How much more effective would his punishment have been if he’d sent him to the stand and made him sit next to said fan and endure 45 minutes plus stoppage time of the poor gent’s views on where the Blades are going wrong this season? Surely the EFL powers-that-be would consider that suitable redress and the cost and inconvenience of a hearing could have been avoided. Come on referees, let’s start thinking outside the box” – John Collins.
This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!During a week when Wheel of Fortune made history by paying out its highest ever cash prize to a marketing manager from Connecticut, the first of the 4.5 million fans who have applied for Geopolitics World Cup tickets were selected to buy them through the system Fifa has named after the long-running American gameshow. While Christina Derevjanik walked away with $1,035,155, two different holidays and the best wishes of co-hosts Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White, those who got lucky in the Fifa equivalent will have to pay handsomely for the privilege of getting to watch matches despite not having the foggiest idea who will be playing in them until the draw is made. Although a certain, very small number of tickets for some group games will start at $60 (£44), for anyone who doesn’t mind sitting nearer the Kármán line than the halfway line, the key word is “start” because they could go for a lot more given Fifa’s decision to channel their inner Oasis and embrace the wheeze of dynamic pricing. With the cheapest tickets for next year’s final starting at $2,030 and the most expensive starting at $6,000, England fans hoping to see their team lift the trophy in New Jersey will be forced to budget and may have to stick considerably cheaper pre-match firecrackers where the sun don’t shine.Am I among 1,057 who have gone from automatically supporting English teams (even Arsenal) on European nights to rather hoping that anyone will beat one of the moneybags teams, or is it just me?” – Bob Cushion (and no others).A response to Martin Fisher (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) about fixture congestion: all you have to do is look at a fixture list to see that clubs play more than twice a week. From 13 September to 4 October (three weeks), Arsenal will have played seven games. That is 2.33 games per week” – Thabo Caves.Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday is eight days. Last time I looked a week was seven days. Also, you can’t have a Saturday being the last of three games in one week and the first of the next set of games the following week, if you start counting it twice will they be worth six points? Will relegation matches become 12-pointers? That’s all Southampton got last season” – Chris Harrison.How disappointing that ref Adam Herczeg missed a trick by only sending Chris Wilder to the stand after booting the ball smack in the choppers of some poor, hapless Blades fan at half-time (yesterday’s Football Daily). How much more effective would his punishment have been if he’d sent him to the stand and made him sit next to said fan and endure 45 minutes plus stoppage time of the poor gent’s views on where the Blades are going wrong this season? Surely the EFL powers-that-be would consider that suitable redress and the cost and inconvenience of a hearing could have been avoided. Come on referees, let’s start thinking outside the box” – John Collins.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…
