1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

Ticket prices are out of control - not just for football, but for everything. Flights, theme parks, concerts - it’s all gone mad, and people are paying it - so they will continue to rise.

Chelsea will be able to sell a seat with a package wrapped around it (food, drink, programme) for £350-500. The seat on its own would be what - £60-£80?  It’s a no brainer for the club.

Amen to that. Next Ryder Cup they want $750 for a day ticket apparently ... world's gone mad. The only solution for most people will be not to go, and watch on their similarly escalating TV subscription, which is I guess what "they" want ... the majority sat at home while the super rich enjoy themselves at the live event. 

10 hours ago, Boyne said:

Slightly off subject but there is a lot of debate among rugby union fans about Twickenham stadium changing its name to the Allianz stadium. Most fans aren't happy. It will be interesting to gauge the reaction if Stamford Bridge is renamed in "honour" of a sponsor. If we do move would the name Stamford Bridge be carried over? I guess it depends where we move to. 

Dont really care what other people call it. I would imagine the new stadium will get a sponsored name, which is fine by me as it wouldn't be Stamford bridge anymore anyway

10 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

And I've read about " dynamic pricing".

All of this hits the ordinary fan and doesn't actually bring in loads of extra revenue. But I'm beginning to think it's a way of putting off the regulars and enticing the high spending tourist type fan.. ie." Customers"

 

I think that that's what they are trying to do. Get a higher proportion of high spending tourists means reducing the seats available for the regular member going every week home and away. In my opinion is a risky strategy. Now we are in a tourist boom and everybody wants to come to London, go to a game (whichever team plays that week at home and they can get ticket for), and back home (and I know very well this because my Canadian cousin has come with a couple of mates and have gone to Fulham, Arsenal, and will go to Charlton). But, when the bubble bursts and tourists stop coming to football in the thousands they are coming today, you have lost the faithful supporters that were going week after week despite not spending big.

Another result of that is that the atmosphere will be dying and clubs will need to do something similar to what's now happening in Spain, where Real Madrid (and other teams like Athletic Club and Atletico de Madrid) has had to establish a supporting stand behind the goal where only youngsters are allowed (prices are at concession level), they have to be wearing white and they have to be singing and supporting the team throughout the game, no photographs, videos are allowed during the game (and someone I know who goes to the Bernabeu every week told me that one guy got a ban for a couple of matches for making a video in that stand while the game was on). Real Madrid fills its stadium with tourists, but they needed to make a stand for supporters to get the atmosphere going.

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Amen to that. Next Ryder Cup they want $750 for a day ticket apparently ... world's gone mad. The only solution for most people will be not to go, and watch on their similarly escalating TV subscription, which is I guess what "they" want ... the majority sat at home while the super rich enjoy themselves at the live event. 

The problem being that there are not thousands of super rich to fill a ground and, when you get the regular member that went every week used to do other things in the weekend, it will be difficult to bring them back. Also, not everyone is subscribing to the rocketing sky/tnt subscriptions to watch football, and many rely on dodgy streams or not watching it at all (many do not even bother to watch other teams, just Chelsea, so if they can't watch their club, they'll lose interest). When the bubble bursts, the PL will struggle to get back to what it was because many clubs will have lost a high proportion of the faithful supporters they had.

11 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

And I've read about " dynamic pricing".

All of this hits the ordinary fan and doesn't actually bring in loads of extra revenue. But I'm beginning to think it's a way of putting off the regulars and enticing the high spending tourist type fan.. ie." Customers"

 

 

11 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

It'll always be "The Bridge" to us I reckon.

It's daft , but I actually love the name, ever since I was a schoolboy, it seemed special to me. Well, the whole place was unique wasn't it, with  those fecking blue cars for the disabled parked behind the goals,.and then after that , bloody motor cars !!

 

3 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Ticket prices are out of control - not just for football, but for everything. Flights, theme parks, concerts - it’s all gone mad, and people are paying it - so they will continue to rise.

Chelsea will be able to sell a seat with a package wrapped around it (food, drink, programme) for £350-500. The seat on its own would be what - £60-£80?  It’s a no brainer for the club.

 

3 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Not sure about or not bringing in extra revenue. if they can get multiple hundreds of pounds for a ticket that would ordinarily be sold for £60-£80, then they will be quids in. Regular fans might buy a Programme and a shirt - but the holidaymaker is more likely to take a trip to the megastore, eat in the stadium, take a stadium tour the day before etc…..

There will be money men who have it all worked out - and if it wasn’t making extra money - then they wouldn’t be doing it.

 

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Amen to that. Next Ryder Cup they want $750 for a day ticket apparently ... world's gone mad. The only solution for most people will be not to go, and watch on their similarly escalating TV subscription, which is I guess what "they" want ... the majority sat at home while the super rich enjoy themselves at the live event. 

 

1 hour ago, bisright1 said:

Dont really care what other people call it. I would imagine the new stadium will get a sponsored name, which is fine by me as it wouldn't be Stamford bridge anymore anyway

 

26 minutes ago, RMH said:

I think that that's what they are trying to do. Get a higher proportion of high spending tourists means reducing the seats available for the regular member going every week home and away. In my opinion is a risky strategy. Now we are in a tourist boom and everybody wants to come to London, go to a game (whichever team plays that week at home and they can get ticket for), and back home (and I know very well this because my Canadian cousin has come with a couple of mates and have gone to Fulham, Arsenal, and will go to Charlton). But, when the bubble bursts and tourists stop coming to football in the thousands they are coming today, you have lost the faithful supporters that were going week after week despite not spending big.

Another result of that is that the atmosphere will be dying and clubs will need to do something similar to what's now happening in Spain, where Real Madrid (and other teams like Athletic Club and Atletico de Madrid) has had to establish a supporting stand behind the goal where only youngsters are allowed (prices are at concession level), they have to be wearing white and they have to be singing and supporting the team throughout the game, no photographs, videos are allowed during the game (and someone I know who goes to the Bernabeu every week told me that one guy got a ban for a couple of matches for making a video in that stand while the game was on). Real Madrid fills its stadium with tourists, but they needed to make a stand for supporters to get the atmosphere going.

 

21 minutes ago, RMH said:

The problem being that there are not thousands of super rich to fill a ground and, when you get the regular member that went every week used to do other things in the weekend, it will be difficult to bring them back. Also, not everyone is subscribing to the rocketing sky/tnt subscriptions to watch football, and many rely on dodgy streams or not watching it at all (many do not even bother to watch other teams, just Chelsea, so if they can't watch their club, they'll lose interest). When the bubble bursts, the PL will struggle to get back to what it was because many clubs will have lost a high proportion of the faithful supporters they had.

Ref dynamic pricing. I read the other day that ticket sellers may have to publish maximum prices in the U.K. if a bill proposed by an MP is passed. Not sure how easy it will be to implement and ticket sellers could setup websites overseas to get around the rules. With most people being emailed e-tickets now the ticket seller could be based in the middle of the Atlantic and no one will know.

https://news.sky.com/story/oasis-dynamic-pricing-prompts-potential-law-to-make-ticket-sellers-tell-fans-maximum-prices-before-going-on-sale-13238128

As for the name of the Stadium I'll still call it the Bridge although I suspect - and I'd love to be wrong - that the new name will enter everyday parlance. I still call the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith the Hammersmith Odeon even though the name changed ages ago. Just habit from when I first went there back in the early eighties. Off subject but for me it's still one of the best music venues in London.

As for pricing for sporting events it is, as others have mentioned, getting out of hand. It's just another experience for those who have shed loads of money and they love to be seen. How many of those people are really knowledgeable about the sport they are watching. I don't know and it could be wrong of me to judge. I attend the Goodwood Revival every year and there are two types of people who go there. One group is very knowledgeable about cars and motorbikes and want to see great racing. The other group consists of those who want to be seen and add another tick to the list of events they've gone to.

@RMH I agree with you that when the bubble bursts the PL could struggle to get back to what it was. Those who did go will have found other things to do and possibly at a cheaper rate. I can't see clubs lowering prices to get back fans. Loads of empty stadiums? At the moment Chelsea and other clubs will do anything to attract fans with lots of money to spend and that could come back to bite them on the arse.

There has been a lot of discussion about increasing the capacity of the ground to 60,000 and that would be great if fans can go and pay a reasonable price and sit with friends and family and extra money could bring in more income to the club but as I and others have pointed out a larger ground and with more events e.g. the women's team playing there and concerts may not go down well with local residents and the councils i.e. Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea due to disruption e.g. closing off roads. I recently attended the match at Stamford Bridge between the Chelsea Women and the Real Madrid Women in the Champions League and the crowd was limited to 5,000 so that the Fulham Road did not have to be closed. The game had to be moved from Kingsmeadow to the Bridge as the former does not meet UEFA standards. As an aside there is much debate among supporters of the women's team about whether or not games should be played at the Bridge. Yes, a larger ground with more events would bring extra money to the club but if the local area doesn't benefit the residents and councils could object.

 

11 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Not sure about or not bringing in extra revenue. if they can get multiple hundreds of pounds for a ticket that would ordinarily be sold for £60-£80, then they will be quids in. Regular fans might buy a Programme and a shirt - but the holidaymaker is more likely to take a trip to the megastore, eat in the stadium, take a stadium tour the day before etc…..

There will be money men who have it all worked out - and if it wasn’t making extra money - then they wouldn’t be doing it.

Yes , it'll bring in extra money for sure, I keep getting emails about the "dug out club" where you pay a fortune to sit behind  the dugout , looks like it's sorted of sectioned off from the other seats in the east lower who pay the regular price

Mind you, you a get a free programme, and the chance to look at the back of Maresca's head.

Some of the tickets were around £800 each depending on the game. 

 

7 hours ago, Boyne said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ref dynamic pricing. I read the other day that ticket sellers may have to publish maximum prices in the U.K. if a bill proposed by an MP is passed. Not sure how easy it will be to implement and ticket sellers could setup websites overseas to get around the rules. With most people being emailed e-tickets now the ticket seller could be based in the middle of the Atlantic and no one will know.

https://news.sky.com/story/oasis-dynamic-pricing-prompts-potential-law-to-make-ticket-sellers-tell-fans-maximum-prices-before-going-on-sale-13238128

As for the name of the Stadium I'll still call it the Bridge although I suspect - and I'd love to be wrong - that the new name will enter everyday parlance. I still call the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith the Hammersmith Odeon even though the name changed ages ago. Just habit from when I first went there back in the early eighties. Off subject but for me it's still one of the best music venues in London.

As for pricing for sporting events it is, as others have mentioned, getting out of hand. It's just another experience for those who have shed loads of money and they love to be seen. How many of those people are really knowledgeable about the sport they are watching. I don't know and it could be wrong of me to judge. I attend the Goodwood Revival every year and there are two types of people who go there. One group is very knowledgeable about cars and motorbikes and want to see great racing. The other group consists of those who want to be seen and add another tick to the list of events they've gone to.

@RMH I agree with you that when the bubble bursts the PL could struggle to get back to what it was. Those who did go will have found other things to do and possibly at a cheaper rate. I can't see clubs lowering prices to get back fans. Loads of empty stadiums? At the moment Chelsea and other clubs will do anything to attract fans with lots of money to spend and that could come back to bite them on the arse.

There has been a lot of discussion about increasing the capacity of the ground to 60,000 and that would be great if fans can go and pay a reasonable price and sit with friends and family and extra money could bring in more income to the club but as I and others have pointed out a larger ground and with more events e.g. the women's team playing there and concerts may not go down well with local residents and the councils i.e. Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea due to disruption e.g. closing off roads. I recently attended the match at Stamford Bridge between the Chelsea Women and the Real Madrid Women in the Champions League and the crowd was limited to 5,000 so that the Fulham Road did not have to be closed. The game had to be moved from Kingsmeadow to the Bridge as the former does not meet UEFA standards. As an aside there is much debate among supporters of the women's team about whether or not games should be played at the Bridge. Yes, a larger ground with more events would bring extra money to the club but if the local area doesn't benefit the residents and councils could object.

 

And we have to remember that in roughly 7 years a proportion, or all, of any extra revenue will be available to be paid out in dividends to our investors.

4 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Yes , it'll bring in extra money for sure, I keep getting emails about the "dug out club" where you pay a fortune to sit behind  the dugout , looks like it's sorted of sectioned off from the other seats in the east lower who pay the regular price

Mind you, you a get a free programme, and the chance to look at the back of Maresca's head.

Some of the tickets were around £800 each depending on the game. 

 

I receive those emails as well. It's a lot of money to pay for not a very good view. On the subject of dug-outs always seems strange all the coaching staff sit there. I would have thought that the manager/head coach would get a better view if they sit further up as they do in other sports e.g. cricket and both codes of rugby and then pass messages to an assistant/deputy for forwarding to the players.

In all my views of going to the Bridge I've sat in the East Lower on a few occasions and in my opinion the view was crap.

1 minute ago, Boyne said:

I receive those emails as well. It's a lot of money to pay for not a very good view. On the subject of dug-outs always seems strange all the coaching staff sit there. I would have thought that the manager/head coach would get a better view if they sit further up as they do in other sports e.g. cricket and both codes of rugby and then pass messages to an assistant/deputy for forwarding to the players.

In all my views of going to the Bridge I've sat in the East Lower on a few occasions and in my opinion the view was crap.

Tommy Docherty used to sit in that thing on top of the old East Stand. I agree, at pitch level it's difficult to see the whole picture.

Where I sit in MHL , everything looks different if I look at the big screen compared to what I actually see.

Angles and distances between players and distances from penalty areas especially.

 

16 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

And we have to remember that in roughly 7 years a proportion, or all, of any extra revenue will be available to be paid out in dividends to our investors.

Very good point about out dividends to investors. Will be interesting to know what dividends the investors receive or will be entitled to. 

Edited October 23, 20241 yr by Boyne

7 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Tommy Docherty used to sit in that thing on top of the old East Stand. I agree, at pitch level it's difficult to see the whole picture.

Where I sit in MHL , everything looks different if I look at the big screen compared to what I actually see.

Angles and distances between players and distances from penalty areas especially.

 

I've seen videos of the Doc in the box(?) at the top of the old East Stand. Would have been a great height from which to watch the matches. I wonder if. part of any development,  any thought has been given to having the pitch below the lowest rows of seats to allow better views.

8 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Very good point about out dividends to investors. Will be interesting to know what dividends the investors receive or will be entitled to. 

The other thing is that I  believe that the bar on " management" fees is also lifted after 10 years and can be paid out to those that it applies to.

I believe that Boehley's fee for his club work is paid by the investment consortium at the moment. It's a few million, can't recall the exact amount without looking it up.

12 hours ago, Boyne said:

Very good point about out dividends to investors. Will be interesting to know what dividends the investors receive or will be entitled to. 

Investors aren't looking for dividends. They will be looking to sell for a profit. 

23 hours ago, RMH said:

The problem being that there are not thousands of super rich to fill a ground and, when you get the regular member that went every week used to do other things in the weekend, it will be difficult to bring them back. Also, not everyone is subscribing to the rocketing sky/tnt subscriptions to watch football, and many rely on dodgy streams or not watching it at all (many do not even bother to watch other teams, just Chelsea, so if they can't watch their club, they'll lose interest). When the bubble bursts, the PL will struggle to get back to what it was because many clubs will have lost a high proportion of the faithful supporters they had.

In London, there is a significant appetite amongst tourists alongside international Business that love the whole hospitality concept that will be available. The fact is that everything has changed such as the working man going to the pub every night, smoking, the high street etc these things will never  return  and when it comes to elite football the drive will be toward a far more food/ beverage experience at the ground indeed the partnership the club have with Ascott is an indication as to how things will develop. 
 

To a degree Ken Bates had it right just not funded or indeed quite targeted to the correct market

The whole make up of a club’s attendance is vastly different to what is was say 20 years ago and almost certainly will evolve on the current trajectory as opposed to ever reverting back to the type make up of a crowd of yesteryear. Let’s face it very few of those that attended say 15 years ago and still attend follow quite the same match day routine now. Some like me simply because I can’t put 10 pints down my neck and my match day food isn’t a bag of chips  nowadays I like to sit with a meal and maybe a glass or two of wine.

Only yesterday we decided to take a long hard look at our TV and broadband we quite simply couldn’t justify the £156 per month we were paying. The fact was that we had in our package Sky/TNT a lot of US style programmes that we rarely if at all watched, HD, 74 meg broadband  and alongside the main SkyQ box a small box in our main bedroom. We were lucky that we are out of contract this month

We went to an EE shop yesterday and now have for the princely sum of £73 per month everything that we had from Sky save that US content plus 150 meg broadband with a guarantee that the TV package will only have one £3 per month price increase every March.

 

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by terraloon

1 hour ago, terraloon said:

In London, there is a significant appetite amongst tourists alongside international Business that love the whole hospitality concept that will be available. The fact is that everything has changed such as the working man going to the pub every night, smoking, the high street etc these things will never  return  and when it comes to elite football the drive will be toward a far more food/ beverage experience at the ground indeed the partnership the club have with Ascott is an indication as to how things will develop. 
 

To a degree Ken Bates had it right just not funded or indeed quite targeted to the correct market

The whole make up of a club’s attendance is vastly different to what is was say 20 years ago and almost certainly will evolve on the current trajectory as opposed to ever reverting back to the type make up of a crowd of yesteryear. Let’s face it very few of those that attended say 15 years ago and still attend follow quite the same match day routine now. Some like me simply because I can’t put 10 pints down my neck and my match day food isn’t a bag of chips  nowadays I like to sit with a meal and maybe a glass or two of wine.

Only yesterday we decided to take a long hard look at our TV and broadband we quite simply couldn’t justify the £156 per month we were paying. The fact was that we had in our package Sky/TNT a lot of US style programmes that we rarely if at all watched, HD, 74 meg broadband  and alongside the main SkyQ box a small box in our main bedroom. We were lucky that we are out of contract this month

We went to an EE shop yesterday and now have for the princely sum of £73 per month everything that we had from Sky save that US content plus 150 meg broadband with a guarantee that the TV package will only have one £3 per month price increase every March.

 

That’s all very good and may work for a few years but there’s a time when tourists will come in lesser numbers and will not have that much money to spend on a hospitality experience. And, for all the business that there is, it isn’t enough to fill 5 grounds alone in London’s PL. 

I’m not saying that we don’t evolve and that we’re not less inclined to spend money in match days but, we still get our ST/tickets to go every week, giving the club that minimum constant revenue they can rely on come sun or rain. Tourists will come and go but it’s a bubble that will burst leaving many empty seats that could be filled if the club had taken care of their faithful “clients”, like any other business.

1 hour ago, RMH said:

That’s all very good and may work for a few years but there’s a time when tourists will come in lesser numbers and will not have that much money to spend on a hospitality experience. And, for all the business that there is, it isn’t enough to fill 5 grounds alone in London’s PL. 

I’m not saying that we don’t evolve and that we’re not less inclined to spend money in match days but, we still get our ST/tickets to go every week, giving the club that minimum constant revenue they can rely on come sun or rain. Tourists will come and go but it’s a bubble that will burst leaving many empty seats that could be filled if the club had taken care of their faithful “clients”, like any other business.

Hey, I've already posted up my views in rgds the stadium but just want to post about this bit, Tourists in London.

When has tourism ever declined in London? Londons tourism will never die down. Only time tourism gets a hit is when there's a natural or unnatural disaster/issue/etc. London bombings didn't put tourism off!

I pretty much lived at the airports when I worked in foreign affairs. Anytime of the year you will find tourists in Central London. If it isn't art, museums, west end and theatres, then its the heritage stuff. If not for the world events then its for companies/shops like M&Ms in Leicester Square.  Stand outside there one day a season (yearly, 4 seasons not football season, lol) and see how many tourists you can count? Forget Hamleys, that place is even worse. And those are just 2 franchises (there's other smaller versions of hamleys, seen one in dubai!) but european HQs or flagships from the top companies around the world are based in london (corporate seats and events is where the money is at) that won't dry up. Only increases each year. This falls in perfectly with the new branding of adding LDN to the chelsea logo.

Add events at the o2 and olympia, pop ups, touring artists, etc...

Sry to say but tourism never stops and will never stop in London; except for a few days in extreme situations and even then its a quick turnover. I hate Central London!

 

P.s

Ppl travel from around the world for a fkn winter wonderland hot chocolate, just check Instagram. Lol

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

6 hours ago, bisright1 said:

Investors aren't looking for dividends. They will be looking to sell for a profit. 

Maybe. But the option to pay themselves dividends will available to them once the embargo is lifted.

48 minutes ago, Simplymo said:

Hey, I've already posted up my views in rgds the stadium but just want to post about this bit, Tourists in London.

When has tourism ever declined in London? Londons tourism will never die down. Only time tourism gets a hit is when there's a natural or unnatural disaster/issue/etc. London bombings didn't put tourism off!

I pretty much lived at the airports when I worked in foreign affairs. Anytime of the year you will find tourists in Central London. If it isn't art, museums, west end and theatres, then its the heritage stuff. If not for the world events then its for companies/shops like M&Ms in Leicester Square.  Stand outside there one day a season (yearly, 4 seasons not football season, lol) and see how many tourists you can count? Forget Hamleys, that place is even worse. And those are just 2 franchises (there's other smaller versions of hamleys, seen one in dubai!) but european HQs or flagships from the top companies around the world are based in london (corporate seats and events is where the money is at) that won't dry up. Only increases each year. This falls in perfectly with the new branding of adding LDN to the chelsea logo.

Add events at the o2 and olympia, pop ups, touring artists, etc...

Sry to say but tourism never stops and will never stop in London; except for a few days in extreme situations and even then its a quick turnover. I hate Central London!

 

P.s

Ppl travel from around the world for a fkn winter wonderland hot chocolate, just check Instagram. Lol

 

f**k knows how tourists manage to get tickets for games anyway when a lot of our real fans struggle.

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

 

f**k knows how tourists manage to get tickets for games anyway when a lot of our real fans struggle.

 

 

 

Tickets could be part of the actual package! Then not only are you fighting against other members but travel companies, corporate companies, or (lesser companies that have been given access to membership sales).

Wait till bots get involved...I really doubt bots atm, but paying membership and giving a couple of tickets away to the employees of the month or clients/customers isn't a useless expense.

Now factor in how many company HQs, european or regional offices there are in London (also all Premier league teams have an office in London btw according to a guardian article (even the offices of their legal and administrative teams for example)).

There's a community grp in white city that give tickets to QPR matches that I did some stuff for (community not qpr). That's just a community/charity based organisation. I don't see GSK, Barclays, DisneyUK for example giving out QPR tickets. The shame! Lol

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

5 minutes ago, Simplymo said:

Tickets could be part of the actual package! Then not only are you fighting against other members but travel companies, corporate companies, or (lesser companies that have been given access to membership sales).

Wait till bots get involved...I really doubt bots atm, but paying membership and giving a couple of tickets away to the employees of the month or clients/customers isn't a useless expense.

Now factor in how many companie HQs, european or regional offices there are in London (all Premier league teams have an office in London btw according to a guardian article (even the offices of their legal and administrative teams for example).

There's a community grp in white city that give tickets to QPR matches that I did some stuff for (community not qpr). That's just a community/charity based organisation. I don't see GSK, Barclays, DisneyUK for example giving out QPR tickets. The shame! Lol

I don't mind if we fleece Corporate clients who sit in boxes /suites , it's the idea that a tourist can obtain a seat that a Chelsea member can't that seems to be wrong.

I mean, how does it even work?

15 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

I don't mind if we fleece Corporate clients who sit in boxes /suites , it's the idea that a tourist can obtain a seat that a Chelsea member can't that seems to be wrong.

I mean, how does it even work?

Easy anyone from PR/HR/Guest services/etc...depending on the company structure can become a member, there's no vetting, lol. Private banking do it alot too...Giving away 2 free tickets to client that has just invested 100k is nothing for example.

How many millions going through 1 pvt bank each week!!!

Now think in billions that get invested in London alone.

The LDN in the logo thread fits perfectly.

 

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

2 hours ago, Simplymo said:

Hey, I've already posted up my views in rgds the stadium but just want to post about this bit, Tourists in London.

When has tourism ever declined in London? Londons tourism will never die down. Only time tourism gets a hit is when there's a natural or unnatural disaster/issue/etc. London bombings didn't put tourism off!

I pretty much lived at the airports when I worked in foreign affairs. Anytime of the year you will find tourists in Central London. If it isn't art, museums, west end and theatres, then its the heritage stuff. If not for the world events then its for companies/shops like M&Ms in Leicester Square.  Stand outside there one day a season (yearly, 4 seasons not football season, lol) and see how many tourists you can count? Forget Hamleys, that place is even worse. And those are just 2 franchises (there's other smaller versions of hamleys, seen one in dubai!) but european HQs or flagships from the top companies around the world are based in london (corporate seats and events is where the money is at) that won't dry up. Only increases each year. This falls in perfectly with the new branding of adding LDN to the chelsea logo.

Add events at the o2 and olympia, pop ups, touring artists, etc...

Sry to say but tourism never stops and will never stop in London; except for a few days in extreme situations and even then its a quick turnover. I hate Central London!

 

P.s

Ppl travel from around the world for a fkn winter wonderland hot chocolate, just check Instagram. Lol

Tourism may not go down but economic crisis are cyclical and that hits the money that people have for tourism and travel. You may not notice a decline in tourist but these may have shallower pockets and will need to decid between taking the kids to M&Ms or spending £800 on a football game, that can be at the Emirates, Whitehart Lane, Olympic stadium or Stamford Bridge.

16 minutes ago, RMH said:

Tourism may not go down but economic crisis are cyclical and that hits the money that people have for tourism and travel. You may not notice a decline in tourist but these may have shallower pockets and will need to decid between taking the kids to M&Ms or spending £800 on a football game, that can be at the Emirates, Whitehart Lane, Olympic stadium or Stamford Bridge.

Agreed, but for one or 2 that may have shallow pockets on a holiday there's many that don't. Backpackers may find it hard to enjoy their holiday in London tbh, way to expensive and I understand that. That's the lake districts demographic. But "its London baby" as joey from the "friends" sitcom says, they are just replaced by how many that can spend. Just look at all the high end hotels in London too. Gone are the B&Bs and replaced with luxury rooms/flats for rent signs.

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo

22 hours ago, Boyne said:

I receive those emails as well. It's a lot of money to pay for not a very good view. On the subject of dug-outs always seems strange all the coaching staff sit there. I would have thought that the manager/head coach would get a better view if they sit further up as they do in other sports e.g. cricket and both codes of rugby and then pass messages to an assistant/deputy for forwarding to the players.

In all my views of going to the Bridge I've sat in the East Lower on a few occasions and in my opinion the view was crap.

I've often thought the same thing,  surely with the camber of the pitch it's impossible to get a decent view of whats going on although they all now seem to be equipped with screens/pads which presumably provide them with a view similar to what the tv cameras have ?

4 hours ago, WeatherMan said:

I've often thought the same thing,  surely with the camber of the pitch it's impossible to get a decent view of whats going on although they all now seem to be equipped with screens/pads which presumably provide them with a view similar to what the tv cameras have ?

I notice sometimes they even have some control on those tablets like rewinding, pausing, etc. But just can't see, they don't show what's on there.

I looked really stupid once as I was leaning to the side and forward, at home, infront of my tablet trying to see over one of the shoulders on screen. Lol And bo**ocks if none of you haven't done that before!

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by Simplymo