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[Yanited @NE5westend]

NUFC Indian war cry, 80s

[NUFC Gallowgate 🏆 @NUFCgallowgate]

KARMA 🙌

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

@pepcalma https://t.co/8XKxP5Lo7N

[Stevie WHU Sizzle 🫧 ⚒ @TheSullis]

Arsenal at corners

[Rowetta🎙 @Rowetta]

Mani Forever 🍋 ❤️🕊️ x

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

@BetMGMUK #NUFC

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

So Newcastle have beaten Chelsea away for the only the 2nd time since the Premier League started and all @SkySportsPL talk about, is Arsenal, which is on another channel
#nufc

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

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[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

Aye, that too. Ridiculous mate!

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

Im getting the impression that Glen Hoddle wants to shag Man City

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@BetMGMUK #NUFC

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

BBC Superstars
The day Kevin Keegan fell off his bike in 1976.

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

Happy birthday Mr Kevin Keegan

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

@Magpie24_7 Have a tiny little bit of faith people

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

Happy 70th birthday Hooky
@peterhook

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

@PyleAndrew @AntonioMango4 @YouTube Spot on 👏🏼👏🏼

[Manxpie @manxpie86]

Great to see a nice unbiased studio

[Sugarman @RobMc1969]

@bushontheradio Andy 'Dart Vader' Bush