Chelsea taking the piss 12:25 - Mar 15 with 4098 views | Illinoisblue | Saying their cup game at Boro should be played behind closed doors for reasons of “sporting integrity”. (No away tickets currently being allowed to be sold) Again, that’s Chelsea bleating about sporting integrity. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 12:34 - Mar 15 with 3087 views | TractorCam | Seems perfectly fair to punish Middlesbrough, what a bunch of fannies. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 12:39 - Mar 15 with 3035 views | Guthrum | Surely they could give the tickets away for free? That would allow Chelski fans to be there and restore "fairness". |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 12:43 - Mar 15 with 2983 views | FoghornGleghorn | Ah come on, we all bandy words about a bit when we've only just looked up what they mean. |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:48 - Mar 15 with 2936 views | TractorCam | Poor lads can't even fly there either. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 12:49 - Mar 15 with 2909 views | Metal_Hacker |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:48 - Mar 15 by TractorCam | Poor lads can't even fly there either. |
Poor ickle cherubs |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 12:51 - Mar 15 with 2876 views | MattinLondon |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:48 - Mar 15 by TractorCam | Poor lads can't even fly there either. |
Can they not stop off halfway and stay in a Premier Inn for the night? Breakup the journey. Do clubs take two drivers with them on long journeys? |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:56 - Mar 15 with 2814 views | itfcjoe | Chelsea are such bastions of integrity and the Corinthian spirit so it is a fair request |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:07 - Mar 15 with 2709 views | BlueNomad |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:48 - Mar 15 by TractorCam | Poor lads can't even fly there either. |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:20 - Mar 15 with 2620 views | Pendejo | Couldn't Middlesbrough just sell tickets to the away end? Just cos poor little Chelsea can't sell them, doesn't mean no-one else can does it? As long as the cash isn't going into Putin's Special Military Operations chest... |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:22 - Mar 15 with 2596 views | Mookamoo |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:39 - Mar 15 by Guthrum | Surely they could give the tickets away for free? That would allow Chelski fans to be there and restore "fairness". |
Are they allowed to do that? Are there some sort of rules in place about payment in kind? |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:25 - Mar 15 with 2574 views | GavTWTD |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:20 - Mar 15 by Pendejo | Couldn't Middlesbrough just sell tickets to the away end? Just cos poor little Chelsea can't sell them, doesn't mean no-one else can does it? As long as the cash isn't going into Putin's Special Military Operations chest... |
Mboro sell them with proceeds going to the Ukraine. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:30 - Mar 15 with 2543 views | ITFC_Forever |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:20 - Mar 15 by Pendejo | Couldn't Middlesbrough just sell tickets to the away end? Just cos poor little Chelsea can't sell them, doesn't mean no-one else can does it? As long as the cash isn't going into Putin's Special Military Operations chest... |
You would have thought that would be easy enough. All Chelsea need to do is provide a list of who are their equivalent of Gold Card holders etc and Boro can then sell in the same priority as Chelsea would, unless that's a data breach? |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:47 - Mar 15 with 2427 views | Guthrum |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:22 - Mar 15 by Mookamoo | Are they allowed to do that? Are there some sort of rules in place about payment in kind? |
If the tickets were free, then the sanctioned Abramovich asset would receive no financial benefit. Edit: Probably comes down to the "handling fee" which all clubs seem now to append to the basic ticket cost. [Post edited 15 Mar 2022 13:48]
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:49 - Mar 15 with 2408 views | PhilTWTD |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:30 - Mar 15 by ITFC_Forever | You would have thought that would be easy enough. All Chelsea need to do is provide a list of who are their equivalent of Gold Card holders etc and Boro can then sell in the same priority as Chelsea would, unless that's a data breach? |
Would be a GDPR issue as data would be being given to another organisation without permission. |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:51 - Mar 15 with 2381 views | GeoffSentence |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:47 - Mar 15 by Guthrum | If the tickets were free, then the sanctioned Abramovich asset would receive no financial benefit. Edit: Probably comes down to the "handling fee" which all clubs seem now to append to the basic ticket cost. [Post edited 15 Mar 2022 13:48]
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Ticket sales attract VAT, whereas handling fees don't. I wonder if that has something to do with it. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:53 - Mar 15 with 2366 views | Guthrum |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:49 - Mar 15 by PhilTWTD | Would be a GDPR issue as data would be being given to another organisation without permission. |
Easy enough to circumvent, just put round a circular: "Would you like the chance to buy a ticket for Middlesbrough (A) and, if so, be willing to share your details with that club?" |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 13:55 - Mar 15 with 2350 views | Guthrum |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:51 - Mar 15 by GeoffSentence | Ticket sales attract VAT, whereas handling fees don't. I wonder if that has something to do with it. |
The "handling fee" is also the club's mark-up on away tickets. |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 14:03 - Mar 15 with 2287 views | SitfcB | Very good response from Boro. "For Chelsea to seek to invoke sporting "integrity" as reason for the game being played behind closed doors is ironic in the extreme." [Post edited 15 Mar 2022 14:07]
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Chelsea taking the piss on 14:07 - Mar 15 with 2247 views | HARRY10 |
Chelsea taking the piss on 12:51 - Mar 15 by MattinLondon | Can they not stop off halfway and stay in a Premier Inn for the night? Breakup the journey. Do clubs take two drivers with them on long journeys? |
If only the players were paid better, they could pay for the flight themselves such is the poverty that is PL football |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:15 - Mar 15 with 2156 views | Churchman | If it’s all too much, why not forfeit the fixture? Even if they buy their way to Wembley, it’s not as if they can have any supporters, if you can call those people supporters, there presumably. They’re getting tiresome. 69 in the first team squad, Lukaku paid £350k a week all bankrolled on stolen money? How about they just be grateful for what they’ve had. I hope M’boro laugh in their faces, pack the ground out and switch off the showers (plumbing issues) just to irritate them. |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:18 - Mar 15 with 2143 views | GlasgowBlue | Boom!! |  |
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Chelsea taking the piss on 14:19 - Mar 15 with 2118 views | xrayspecs |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:49 - Mar 15 by PhilTWTD | Would be a GDPR issue as data would be being given to another organisation without permission. |
Yet Ipswich send a list of ticket holders to the opposition when we visit. When we buy a ticket are we consenting to this? |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:21 - Mar 15 with 2102 views | PhilTWTD |
Chelsea taking the piss on 13:53 - Mar 15 by Guthrum | Easy enough to circumvent, just put round a circular: "Would you like the chance to buy a ticket for Middlesbrough (A) and, if so, be willing to share your details with that club?" |
True, although I assume there would be complications relating to where the money would go after it was paid to Boro. Would they be viewed as selling tickets even if it was via a third party, particularly when the FA Cup has a strict split on who gets what proportion of the gate receipts? |  | |  |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:22 - Mar 15 with 2093 views | BlueBadger |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:18 - Mar 15 by GlasgowBlue | Boom!! |
And this is how truly dreadful Chelsea are - Boris Johnson's Conservative Government are actually morally superior to them. [Post edited 15 Mar 2022 14:32]
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Chelsea taking the piss on 14:23 - Mar 15 with 2078 views | Illinoisblue |
Chelsea taking the piss on 14:18 - Mar 15 by GlasgowBlue | Boom!! |
A robust challenge from the govt source! |  |
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