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Slightly differently, I think the issue of hopeless governance in the sport in both the EPL and Championship, allows an arms race of clubs being allowed to cheat and pay fees/wages way in excess of true club income. It started with Chelsea and ManC, latterly Derby, Everton, Massive, QPR and...

That’s what I do.

That worked seamlessly, repaying 23,000 folk in tranches.

£2m less the effect of Amex games selected for normal BT/Sky live coverage.

In the cool light of Monday morning, I wonder if PB will regret the non personable tone? Sometimes where a PR chasm with a wide section of fans arises, the cavalry arrives. Wondering if Tony will email the supporters soon.

Product, consumer, consumption, differential marketing. The EPL is a well oiled commercial machine.

Comes across as blunt. Is this a wind up faux email, or was the initial email sent to him aggressive? Fans don’t always want something for free. Individually or by families/parents, £ hundreds or more are handed over to the club each season, with little controversy. “Product” ... now that’s...

It's silly when it's gets personal, we're very lucky to have Paul Barber. But I can fully understand why the majority of supporters are annoyed with the EPL and PPV concept. Both on principle and not everyone can have 5 Albion loving mates around to split the cost, some physically can't for...

I’ve never believed that the PL bubble will burst. My Dad was saying it 20 years ago! Instead, for better or worse, I thought that English and then UEFA football finally started reaching its commercial potential in the way the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL had done for decades. Overseas markets in...

It would be interesting to know if the ST waiting list is now much, much lower. With Lockdown, at first on NSC it was rumoured that it’d disappeared completely ... unlikely imho from 8,000 (less the last release of ST’s). All the time demand is strong, the club can relax on any costing matter...

Is the money there to pay them? Pre CV19, a wide array of EPL clubs such as Brighton, CP, Everton and Villa, all made annual losses in the £10m’s, in Everton’s case £100m. They’re over-paying wages to a huge extent (combined with agents and transfer fees), relative to income. In a self...

Have you got a sense of what other CP fans are saying about PPV and the charge? Just a very brief look online, reveals a fair amount of disgust by EPL fans in general.

Politics doesn’t come into the failure to repay ST money. The club are fine in handing out lucrative player contracts. No reticence there. It’s a commercial decision to hold our cash, for games foregone.

No. If we’ve physically missed say 5 PL home games, they could repay fans 5/19 of our money. Simple. Without any need to blame politicians and scientists about what might be in the future.

The club could refund tranches of ST money.

I didn’t think of that angle. Can it be bought from outside the EU? Or will still they stick to their streams, with commentary of “Gollllllllllllll Jahanbakhsh”?

In the same way that tour operators and long haul airlines are expected by some observers, to raise their post CV19 prices, more than covering all the credits they’ve promised. But with many losing their livelihoods during this pandemic, BHAFC raising prices by more than a few percent, would go...

They can’t be sure before a PPV ball has been kicked that £15 is the perfect price .... I assume to maximise revenue.

I wonder if the Board are particularly bothered about dissenters abstaining and complaining? If 10,000 go for PPV, that’s £150,000 of extra revenue (less 1/6 in VAT), gladly banked for each PPV game.

For 2020/21 CV19 no crowds matches, have direct debit STH’s been given the option of a refund? I haven’t. Or is it automatic, money hits out bank accounts?