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Personally, I feel that should be changed. They should make it that the away team can sell the tickets but have the FA handle the sales and have the money from them go into some development fund to help the rest of football that's actually been harmed by Romans blood money.

And maybe they should also be allowed to sell away tickets as well seeing as in the PL the home team gets that money. For the FA Cup where the away team gets half the gate receipts have Chelseas cut again goto into an FA fund

 

My point wasn't so much that Chelsea would sell the tickets but the FA would take over the handling of away ticket sales with the money going into a fund to help the wider football community

 

When stadiums were running at a reduced capacity due to covid most clubs were saying that the cost difference between running at full capacity and reduced capacity was fairly small so I'm not sure the 3000 away tickets would make a massive difference even if they were given away for free

 

If you actually read it the deals even worse for Abramovich than what he was trying to do though. What he was trying to do was go 'I won't receive any money, it's all going to a foundation I'm setting up (which I only have to donate 5% of the money the foundation gets) but I will keep the loans and take my interest payments'. What the deal is to allow the sale to go ahead is The Raine Group can continue to try and sell the club but Roman gets no say in the process and will get none of the money (That will be held by the government until they decide what to do with it) and that Roman has to write off the loans completely. He is basically giving up an asset worth £2-3billion and writing off £1.5bn in loans and getting nothing for it.

Hopefully the Gov splits the money (and the money from the rest of his seized assets) into 3. Some to go directly to Ukraine to help rebuild, some to go and help Ukrainian refugees that come to the UK (perhaps used to renovate some of the many empty houses/buildings in the country in the country where we can house them for as long as needed) and then some to the lower leagues that Romans blood money did without doubt damage

 

Again though I don't think it's that simple. A lot of Stewards at Chelsea's level are actual staff members on the payroll, not freelancers and Chelsea are able to pay those. Also some of the requirements set down by the police to allow top-level events to go on isn't just to have a certain number stewards per people in the stadium but also a certain amount of stewards per total seats so stewards for empty seats are still required to be paid, maybe a little down on what they need if the seats are filled but its not as big a saving as people think as a number of clubs mentioned when they complained about limited capacity due to covid as the costs remained similar but the income was down.

And you can again always let the away team sell the away tickets or the FA with the extra stewarding costs being taken out of that while and the rest going into a fund to help football in general. Or just sell them for a nominal fee. Stewards aren't the best paid, I saw an AMA on reddit from a steward at a PL club who said they get £50 (plus the perk of getting to watch the match plus some free refreshments). Sell them at a nominal fee of say £2 and even if you need 1 steward per 100 people you quickly cover the costs to allow away fans.

Or perhaps force Chelsea to play at a neutral ground and Chelsea then have no costs to put the match on but also get none of the income then we can have a home and away fans