stevegrant

Szczesny, Gibbs, Wilshere, Walcott, Ramsey and Bendtner would all qualify, while Chamberlain and Ryo Myaichi will have been at Arsenal 3 years next summer. Jenkinson will also have been at Arsenal 3 years next summer, but he'll be 22 by then so wouldn't count.

Not "this weekend" (how do you have .2 of a player in one game?), it's an average per game over the whole season.

Doubt it, although I can't imagine the club makes much money from it anyway.

Not including corporate tickets, there are just over 6,000 available on a match-by-match basis this season.

The only thing I can suggest is that you get yourself registered on the online ticket system as soon as possible. While tickets generally only go on sale around 4 weeks in advance, no game has yet sold out (suspect Man City will be the first, considering more than 3,000 have been sold today already), so while clearly nobody can "guarantee" you a ticket, the balance of probability is certainly in your favour.

Based on past history. We didn't even sell out the smaller allocation there last season, it's £50 a ticket and it's on TV a week after a more popular London away game.

The reason the Costa situation is a bit more complex is that he hadn't represented either Brazil or Spain at an age-group level, but has been eligible to represent both for a few years. He has two caps for the full Brazil side, but they were both in friendlies. If Costa had played at U21 (or U23 for the Olympics) level for Brazil, he wouldn't have been eligible for Spain. The Boateng situation was a number of years ago when the rules were different.

No, the point being that an agreement exists between all of the home nations that none of them will seek to call up "naturalised" players who don't qualify by birth or parentage. Hence the situation with Almunia and Arteta a few years back and Januzaj more recently has been a weird excuse to waste column inches when it's a non-discussion.

Pretty sure it's not even possible anyway, as he's represented France at U21 level.

I have, yes. I've been trying to get to the bottom of the double-post thing and one of the workarounds people have come up with on the vBulletin support forum is to increase the minimum time allowed between posts. I'm hoping they're actually going to fix the bug at some point, though, rather than rely on inconvenient workarounds. The problem is that they've released version 5 which I suspect they'll be putting more resource into than version 4, which we're currently running. It's going to be a while before we move across to that version for various reasons.

Throwing this one out there, despite having had such a big impact on England qualifying for the World Cup, Andros Townsend won't go to Brazil.

Not with advance fares, usually. It's the trade-off with getting the cheapest deal and it being non-refundable if something like this happens, but with the TV games having been announced a month ago, and no other word that they wanted to reschedule it, it seemed safe to book tickets for the Saturday.

For no apparent reason. Excellent. ****ing glad I'd already decided not to bother with that trip, otherwise the train tickets I would have already booked would have been rather wasted.

Difficult to tell. They beat Moneyfields 12-0 in the first round, but you'd expect a professional academy side to give a local county/regional league side's first team a decent game. Barton Rovers v Stevenage is tonight, so they'll know who they've got to beat in the second round after that. There's no replays in the FA Youth Cup, so it has to be decided on the night.

You do realise that there are the same number of games in the Champions League group stage as in the Europa League group stage?

Surely the best thing about all of this is that they go into an FA Cup match against Stevenage - a non-league club 5 years ago - as massive underdogs

Absolutely no way TSF can be Kitson if there was talk that he was going to get an England call-up, FFS

They just make this far too easy...

Fair to say the double post problem has nothing to do with the share toolbar.

I assume you didn't watch either of the last two qualifiers then?

Not at £47/50 a pop and on TV, we wouldn't.

Surely the fairest way of doing it is to work out how many away tickets we're likely to sell over the whole season, and subsidise every ticket by a fixed amount. That way, every travelling fan benefits, even if it's only a few quid. Man United have decided they'll subsidise every away ticket by £4, if you do every away game that's £76 saved over the course of the season. Not a massive amount when you're still spending plenty but every little helps. I'm not sure elasticity of demand really comes into it when every club is receiving this cash, whether their away support needs boosting or not.

I quote from an email reply from the ticket office: A strange use of tenses considering this was sent yesterday and the Fulham game was nearly two weeks ago, but that's what they said.

West Ham seem to have been suitably vague with what they're doing (link) but other than that, every other club has at least done something to specifically help their own fans at away games, be it subsidised tickets, travel or refreshments.

See OP...