Domestic football..... no longer being domestic?

It had been rumoured for a while but it's finally been approved, Serie A and La Liga will have league matches played abroad for the first time. Villarreal vs Barca will be held in Miami in December and AC Milan vs Como will be held in Perth in Feb.

Uefa 'reluctantly' approves La Liga & Serie A games to be played abroad - BBC Sport

It's been a rumoured cash grab plan for some other European leagues for a good few months now as a way for these leagues to try find some extra ways of creating revenue but it's finally going ahead. Some of the American PL team owners are very vocal about wanting to play PL games away from England, notably the Americans at Liverpool have said they hope to have home games played in New York again recently.

There are currently only 8 PL clubs that don't have either a majority or minority American owner, how long do we think it will be before their mindset of global expansion that's now the norm in their sport is happening in England? Changes in the PL need a 14 team majority vote, but we are extremely close to being in a world where the PL is majority American owned (Spurs rumoured to be the next in line for a US consortium bid).

 

They cant these days, if they miss a few games their season ticket gets stripped from them. I was listening to a podcast hosted by a Chelsea ST holder and he was critising the money grabbing from the club in various ways but the ST prices this year were as expensive as ever but Chelsea told fans they had to buy their 4 home champions league group game tickets as part of their season ticket as one package, before they even had the draw or anything at £71 per game. So Chelsea fans essentially had to spend another £284 quid each to get their ST and a family of 3 who he'd sat with for the last 10/15 years couldn't afford that extra money on top and had to give it away.

Lots of the big clubs have cap rules now where you have to hit a certain percentage to keep your ST. So telling those same fans that "you aren't allowed to miss a game, but we will sell a game away to American and you'll like it" will be fun to see play out.

 

I noticed a few weeks back that there were a lot of Gov jobs listed in Manchester around the new Football Regulation area. I'm guessing literally every decision they make will be discussed to no ends length at first.

 

Not everywhere, it's certain teams that do. Eagles fans prices actually went up last season and they lost a home game to Brazil, no funds were given back. LA Chargers fans are in the same boat this season with no refunds or perks from losing a game on their ST. Their fans still have yet to get any pennies back from losing a game. Average ST price for the Chargers this season (8 home games rather than 9) was $1,554.

 

An English owner who had a 30,000 seater stadium in the PL that was full every week with a massive ST numbers backlog and demand coming out their ears would look toward expansion to fill demand...... the Americans would instead cap STs and bring in a membership plan and make the 30,000 tickets as expensive as possible. Their stadiums have some weird builds too in the name of making the most money as possible.

So the LA stadium which the Chargers and Rams use is one and a lot of the newer NFL grounds have this, but the pitch side seating is the corporate boxes. They market the boxes as being as close to the action as you can get and the best seats in the house and all that jazz. So the rows of actual seating don't start probably until like row 10/15 in a normal stadium? Going to be ridiculous to watch in the world cup next year when a player scores and runs of to celebrate in front of whatever company or celeb have a box for it pitchside.