George Fine

Worldwide renown genius. Purveyor of pretentious wankery. Parody account.

[George Fine @Georgefine]

@_Zeets You take that back, James Ward-Prowse is a God.

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@_Zeets Milkshake duck

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@TalkinYanks Maybe Jazz just uses everyone else’s stuff and he’ll have an MVP season

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

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@ConnorArmstrong @SkySports How will his lawyers get him out of this one?

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@ConnorArmstrong Condemnation is an interesting word, these are football fans, not nation states

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@sportingintel Heavy-handed punishment for me. We're fully deserving of sanctions, the Leeds fine was a farce and EFL have reacted accordingly, but this seems brutal.

I don't think Boro getting through is well thought through either.

I'm also worried about our future.

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@sportingintel I think giving a place to Middlesbrough instead would raise a whole raft of issues.

Saints being found to have cheated needs a steep penalty, but pushing a team to the final having lost over two games would create a pretty mad precedent

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@JustSaints_ @blainalllinson 👀

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@mrsimmo1984 Honestly, after the week we’ve had I can hardly blame anyone. Plus, everyone hates a crap yo-yo club and I’m afraid that’s what we’re becoming….

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@EggerDC Did an alien steal Josh Hartnett's skin?

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@KieranMaguire Looks like USMNT struggled with it as well

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@maxrushden @marklangdon Would Southampton win the premier league if they were in it?

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@HeedTheCallPod @DanHanzus @MarcSessler @ConorOrr Andrew Berry: Successfully swimming uphill despite ownership? Or bootlicking lackey who should be fired.

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@_Zeets Maybe he's confused and still thinks he's in the Championship

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@mainst_trading @michaeljburry Maybe… that’s the joke?

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@mrsimmo1984 Hmmm... I would be disappointed with a draw, so I guess that reshapes perspectives!

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@greggrosenthal @billbarnwell Chances of a quietly dissatisfied Justin Jefferson to get a trade? Clearly a shock but he’s due an extension, they’re over the cap and could get a mega pick haul to work with if they don’t value the QB.