February Football: High Lines Stagger On

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe, but then weirdly price sensitivity isn't so much of an issue. Tickets for cup games are considerably cheaper than tickets for league games and attendances do not reflect this differential - as you have pointed out in earlier rounds. I can't see the attendance from last night online, are they making this harder to find or something? I bet the game on Friday night has a bigger attendance despite prices probably being two to three times higher for pretty much exactly the same game, if anything a less important game.

A lot of kids there last night which is probably a function of the pricing [my nephew went with his season ticket holder grandad], which is good, but also the fact that you can get seats next to each other for cup games which you basically can't for league games.

Maybe the plan is just for the baby boomers to live forever with a reasonably limitless supply of cash to pour into the 'matchday experience'.

At least until it can be NFL-ized.

The lack of price sensitivity is the big puzzle for me. Are people that indelibly wedded to attending league soccer that they will basically unhitch it from their personal finances and the entire rest of their life? Maybe they are, I don't know. For me it's the reason I don't go to Chelsea anymore, having gone a lot when I was young enough to qualify for the various discounts, because I can't dump £120 on a day out 15 times a year - or rather I can, but in my judgement it's a poor use of that £120, so I'll put it into the mortgage or the car or something else. Obviously other people don't make those calculations. Or they're just doing well enough not to worry.

[niko_cee]

Becoming a season ticket holder just becomes a lifelong commitment, be it out of habit, FOMO, the perception of scarcity, they've got you and both sides secretly know it. Keeping people on waiting lists for years so they can build up a bit of money and a lot of fear is probably quite a clever loyalty programme.

[Lewis]

Aren't NFL tickets hundreds and hundreds of pounds? Even accounting for them being a first world country there is plenty of scope to rip fans off yet.

[niko_cee]

Plymouth doggedly refusing to either press the ball, or fuck around with it in their own defensive third. A conundrum for the modern football method. Not sure this is a game for Chiesa.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Aren't NFL tickets hundreds and hundreds of pounds? Even accounting for them being a first world country there is plenty of scope to rip fans off yet.

I can see why people watch that at home with WINGS and DOGS and incredibly watered-down BEER etc, as it's kind of made for that. Why you'd pay hundreds of dollars to go to a minus 10 degrees Pittsburgh megadrome and sit around for hours in between plays/drives, I have no idea. People call baseball and cricket boring but at least they're in the summer.

[niko_cee]

Got to do something with your giant Ds and picket fence signage.

[Luke Emia]

Looking at the bench there we could be fucked.

[niko_cee]

Big Darwin or bust really. Probably needs Jones as well to do something in midfield.

Chiesa is useless. Hopefully they can makeweight him to some Serie A mugs in the summer.

[Kikó]

3-1 Liverpool without question.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The biggest surprise currently is that the sun's out down there. Haven't seen that in months.

[Kikó]

Rooney was stood in front of it LMAO.

@Giggles

[niko_cee]

9 minutes?

[Mike]

Could play another 90 and I doubt we’d score.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For the 'neutral' it feels as if Liverpool have had about 3 hours at this.

[niko_cee]

Must feel like days for any Pilgrims out there.

I'll Take Plymouth at the Amex in the next round please.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chiesa can join Sancho on the useless cunt list. Fortunately he's only paid £120,000 for a week's work. Barely even two sets of school fees for a year.

[Magic]

He's rotten isn't he?

[Kikó]

Great result for Wayne Rooney's Plymouth.

[Shindig]

FA Cup blown WIDE OPEN.

[niko_cee]

Chiesa can join Sancho on the useless cunt list. Fortunately he's only paid £120,000 for a week's work. Barely even two sets of school fees for a year.

I was going to come on and say I reckon he's worse than Alberto Aquilani was. Just a completely pointless player. He seemed to be playing as an extra 'insert position here' for most of that half, getting in the way of the actual person playing said position.

[Danny]

Thought O'Alisson was going to score that

[Gray Fox]

A shame the young lads wont get a game now with that.

So close to a classic keeper late equaliser there at the end too.

[Lofty]

Becoming a season ticket holder just becomes a lifelong commitment, be it out of habit, FOMO, the perception of scarcity, they've got you and both sides secretly know it. Keeping people on waiting lists for years so they can build up a bit of money and a lot of fear is probably quite a clever loyalty programme.

I thought the new breed of owners like Boehly want season ticket holders to fuck off so they can scalp all those seats for a fortune to tourists?

[Luke Emia]

I was going to come on and say I reckon he's worse than Alberto Aquilani was. Just a completely pointless player. He seemed to be playing as an extra 'insert position here' for most of that half, getting in the way of the actual person playing said position.

You can only think the logic was that get him in to play the minutes like today(not realising he’d be so shite). I think the only positive about him is that they didn’t pay a lot of money for him so they should get their money back at the end of the season selling him to FC Fusilli.

Not the worst loss in the world based on getting a couple of breaks in March and probably not giving anyone who’s going to start on Wednesday any minutes so should help with the fixture congestion and I won’t give a toss about it if we win the league as I’m sure many won’t.

[Giggles]

Rooney was stood in front of it LMAO.

@Giggles

What?

[Mike]

He's rotten isn't he?

He plays like he’s in a ‘legends’ game, can see he had some skill once but it’s all gone

[niko_cee]

Yeah, he's obviously got a good touch, it's just he plays like a late 90s Matt Le Tissier in mobility terms. Or actually, probably more like a 2025 Le Tiss.

[Gray Fox]

He needs that season of fitness in him after injuries. Sadly we can't offer him that here really.

[Pepe]

I can see why people watch that at home with WINGS and DOGS and incredibly watered-down BEER etc, as it's kind of made for that. Why you'd pay hundreds of dollars to go to a minus 10 degrees Pittsburgh megadrome and sit around for hours in between plays/drives, I have no idea. People call baseball and cricket boring but at least they're in the summer.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/krcgtv....pital-confirms

Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday.

[-james-]

Rangers

[Yevrah]

That's a proper FM fucking right there.

[niko_cee]

Bye Ange.

[Shindig]

Oof. Pack your bags, Angie.

[Spikey M]

Is Kinsky this generations fake footballer? He's awful. Just play one of the youth team keepers.

[Waffdon]

Rangers

The penalty the referee awarded in the 95th minute was money in hand stuff. A joke of a call

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Scottish Cup must take a serious financial hit if one of the arsecheek brothers don't make the final. I'd be fixing it if I were them. The draw too.

[Luke Emia]

Sir Marcus is on. Watch the Villa press fall to pieces.

[Yevrah]

Traditional Villa is about his level (ironic given their level is above Man Utd's now) so I'd expect him to do alright for them if he stops being a twat.

[Ben]

I imagine United fans are seething after seeing Rashford put more effort into the last ten minutes than he has the previous two years.

[Shindig]

He'll probably pull a Lingard and squander his good efforts for a second shot at United.

[randomlegend]

I imagine United fans are seething after seeing Rashford put more effort into the last ten minutes than he has the previous two years.

Personally I'm way, way past caring. Didn't even occur to me he played for them when I saw Villa were playing.

[Yevrah]

Replacing watching UTD burn with watching the US burn doesn't sound like a good swap.

[randomlegend]

I am perfectly capable of watching both burn, thank you very much.

I still watch United, I just can't bring myself to care about a player like Rashford who has behaved like they don't care for the last two years.

[AJ23]

Arne Slot finding out about the spirit of the FA Cup. Teams who see you as their cup final, who up their intensity levels.

If you drop your intensity levels and play kids and reverses, you get what you deserve.

Arrogant Arne van Gerwen.

[niko_cee]

The side was definitely light a couple of proper senior players. The midfield wasn't up to the task and when faced with a low block like that you're better off getting down in the trenches and fighting them on their own terms - get it out wide and bomb crosses in - don't look for non-existent space or have some numpty like Chiesa who wants 15 minutes on the ball every time he touches it. Unfortunately nobody in modern football is able to beat a man and put a cross in as everything is inverted. He should have started Nunez and Jones, but I suppose they will say they were right if they get a result on Wednesday [they weren't]. Come up short there and maybe you've just manufactured yourself an unneeded mini crisis as they have a pretty intense few weeks in the league coming up.

Good for the magic of the cup.

[niko_cee]

Newcastle away, bleh.

[Shindig]

It's a banana skin.

[Lewis]

Opening up nice for United to burgle another one.

[Shindig]

The booing during the bus parade.

[niko_cee]

Going off the BBC team sheet, what on earth is that Madrid back four?