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Godx:
I think you are significantly overestimating your fanbase in London. I checked Spurs’ website and there are still tickets available on general sell for their game against Sunderland. That’s a club with double, if not triple, your fanbase in London, yet even their new stadium is experiencing the same issue City does. Chelsea, with a larger stadium, would face the same situation as well.

Spurs is a 90k cap stadium who have just moved there and still adjusting the mix between season ticket holders and general sale

Spurs does not have double or triple any Chelsea fan base, I will rate them fairly equal in size. I lived in Tottenham for most of my late teens and early twenties and don't know any Tottenham fan there, they mostly supported Arsenal. The Tottenham fans fled to the suburbs in the 70s and 80s as part of white flight and most Tottenham residents for the last 30 years are Black/Turkish and are Arsenal fans.

In addition you have to factor earning power. Almost everybody in Chelsea and Kensington can afford Chelsea tickets and even hospitality tickets without blinking. It's the richest locality in the UK and the locals are almost all multimillionaires. Before the new ticketing system. Chelsea waiting list was 20+ years meaning money is chasing tickets upandan. Spurs draw their fanbase from Enfield to Kent/Essex area where they are just normal working class people with disposable income decisions to make and nowhere near the money that abides in Chelsea. It's like comparing Ibadan residents to those of Ikoyi.

Arsenal is also situated in an area of London where it costs £1m minimum to own a home, rising to the tens of millions. Spurs is not.

Manchester City on the other hand is located in, and draws its core fanbase from the poorest and most deprived part of Manchester (East Manchester) where they are all minimum wage earners or on benefits. Those ninjas are not sure of next months rent talkless of committing thousands per year to following football.

Godx:
You can’t realistically compare City with Arsenal or other established traditional clubs. City are still growing in fanbases. Chelsea stadium capacity is about 33k while Manchester City’s is roughly 54k which explains the difference. City simply do not operate from a small stadium like Stamford Bridge.

You are incorrect. Chelsea stadium cap is 40k and even if increased to 60k, you will not find tickets on general sale

Arsenal is 60k capacity and you will not find tickets on general sale not even Carabao Cup, nor Manure with 80k capacity even despite their recent slump. When City had stadium cap of 47k even after 2 league titles, I used to get tickets to matches like Barcelona, Bayern etc on general sale and even ghosted the opportunity to buy UCL semifinal ticket against Madrid there cos I know it will surely come around again.

Dem no born you well to see that kind ticket at Chelsea or Arsenal or Manure for love or money. The only ticket I have got for Manure on general sale was a Carabao ticket, and can only get normal league tickets there by paying season ticket holders to give up their seat for one game. There are levels to this. Arsenal is completely impossible without going outside the stadium and paying a tout 4x the ticket price even if they are playing Grimsby or MK Dons. Arsenal is actually the Baba for ticket unavailability and they have been virtually trophyless for 2 decades.

This is how you know a small club, advertising match tickets everywhere on all Social Media and you can buy on general sale right next to the Dugout where Pep and co are sitting

You can hardly find this at any major club. Try to buy any Chelsea ticket now over the next month and you will only see Hospitality tickets costing hundreds or thousands of pounds. Arsenal tickets are even more impossible. Sometimes when Jarus is visiting UK he will ask me to source Arsenal tickets for him and nothing come out even Carabao tickets, he will have to go and buy from touts at jacked up prices. But Man City tickets, I can go there and buy at the entrance gate even if they are playing Barcelona or Bayern. Plastics.

iamoyindamola:
Paper tiger show working of your training

Come ma I give you blowdrop. No diddy

GloriousGbola:
its boxing day y'all!

I stand ever ready and not absent proper training

LordAdam16:
the recent news reports
this assassination as well as the assassination of the hezbollah c-in-c (which was responded to with the australia attack) is satanyahu trying to dissuade iran and the axis from its current path

You clutch at straws ascribing random Sunni ISIS lone wolf attack in Australia as Irans response, not to mention giving voice to base instinct that would take pride in such a heinous act or credit it as an act of state absent proper response.

Speak fucking truth or fall from fvcking presence.

Pete Hesgeth confirms strike was at the behest and with cooperation of Nigerian Govt

We should hope they continue to aid us in this regard going forward and with more precise intel, surveillance and targeted drone strikes

This House of David na nonsense

I can't wait 7 episodes just for the killing of Goliath jor

David Hundeyin crying all over Twitter over the ISIS bombing in Nigeria

Like someone said, if his child fails JAMB. he will still blame USA

Israel just killed an IGRC commander in Lebanon

We will see whether Iran is defeated or not by whether they respond with the same gusto they did to killing of their men in previous times

Meanwhile, we await solid evidence of USA strike on Sokoto and whether it was effective or just for optics

BlieRaydick, Ellexy, Theflint1, Sportsweb, Afrodoc2 and others should be warned

https://www.nairaland.com/8587349/gumi-sues-two-facebook-users

PDPGuy:
Split screen sure pass for this weekend 😮‍💨

These are some great match ups

raumdeuter:
Has Mikel tried commentary before, he sounds more polished and might be better for tthe ears

Mikel wey funê dey hang for him tongue. He is not eloquent at all.

Mikel has run out of content on his podcast, you can only recount Chelsea dressing room stories for so long. He does not have the free flowing conversational style to comment on current happenings like Lineker and co, he can only recount dressing room shenanigans and he's run out of stories. E reach where he is starting to speculate and make stuff up to produce his 1 hour daily content. Like my pastor says, any preacher wey preach pass 45 mins has begun to lie, and Mikel done enter territory of lies to produce content.

Of Oliseh set, SiaSia is the one that can run commentary while of Mikel set, na Olofinjana and Osaze wey good for commentary although Osaze brain dey touch with Conspiracy theories, but he is eloquent. That's for the Naija raised players not those born abroad.

raumdeuter:
Lacroix scored own goal still missed penalty

Prayers enter voicemail today

larride:
Might be true but we haven't seen any improvement from him one bit.

Even with the Band nonsense he introduced, he just gave Discos an avenue to exploit Nigerians without the commensurate power.

At least we saw how Fashola tried to improve the sector, the Siemens deals and the likes, what exactly can we point to as Adelabu major input into that ministry?

The banding thing is working oh. Ninjas on band A are reporting almost constant power

"This assymetric way of attacking the Tanzanians are doing is really really impressive"

Oliseh no go kee pesin oh

Looooookmaaaaaaannn!!!

See these guys

Common Tanzania

See Chukwueze

Chelsea launch bid for Semenyo

If.you are tired of seeing Kittens, shout Amen

Amethyst101:
The Senegal game, it was Amokachi with his usual nonsense commentary...

Now Oliseh don start hin own....
Whoever thought being an ex-international meant you'd be a good sports commentator

Some years ago, it was Victor Ikpeba always wounding us with his "in the middle of the park" comment at every opportunity

And Oliseh is supposed to be the most educated in his set, SMH

Unlimited22:
Okocha's cousin with a delightful ball into the box

Nephew

zeusis:
Na oliseh

Na Oliseh dey yarn this nonsense?

Ninja just stating the obvious everytime and only commenting from Naija point of view

Ajayiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

Jackson for golden boot. Airmark must cry

raumdeuter:
While that was painful too but half of us knew we entered as underdogs and we had over achieved at our first world cup. Before the game we expected a loss but during the game we started becoming more hopeful

The Cameroun 2000 loss pain me more sha.

I fully expected to lose to Cameroun more than Italy given we were carrying a passenger in midfield and Cameroun will run through us like hot knife through butter. A passenger who was suspended for the easy semi final win against South Africa

Italy so far in that tournament had struggled to single goal draws, defeats and win against Norway, Ireland and Mexico respectively and there was no reason we would not beat them except Amokachis injury, the aforementioned passenger and Eguavoens fowlishness

iamoyindamola:
Even ibime dan humble

No dey overrate yourself. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

popizaino:
Why do most super eagles find the defeat to Cameroun on penalties in the finals of AFCON GHA/NIG 2000 as their worst moments as a super eagle supporter?.

Na so e pain una reach?

My worst moment as a Super Eagles supporter is the last minute loss to Italy in 1994 World Cup, who were down to 10 men

basilico:
Tesla would be nothing without him. He grew it to be what it is. Today Tesla is not just an automotive company. It's an AI powerhouse developing Optimus robots that will inhabit Mars . Tesla is about to massively rollout robotaxis Tesla sells complete large scale Solar Energy Storage Systems.
His Boring Company is drilling tunnels that will run autonomous taxis. His Tesla company has filed a patent for integrating starlink
receivers on vehicles.
That man will be trillionaire on paper within a few years.

Always promising future things, selling hype without achievement to pump up share price. A conmans game

How many cars is Tesla selling, that's what matters

Boring company is not Tesla, neither is Starlink so whatever they are doing does not contribute to Teslas financial performance. These are all conman narratives rather than actual performance of the sale of cars which is pitiful in comparison to other automakers who are valued at 1/10th of Teslas marketcap. If he wasn't planning a capital market IPO dump job, he wouldn't have split all these companies into separate entities - SpaceX, Boring and Neuralink should be adding value to Tesla not separate companies. But he is what he is, a conman who creates wealth from IPOs and capital markets not financial performance so he will aim to float SpaceX for $500bln, Twitter for $200bln, Neuralink for $100bln rather than have them as value adding to Tesla. You don't see Microsoft, Google, Facebook splitting their different products into different companies. Splitting products into different companies is an IPO hustle and first sign of a conman

The new Share incentive scheme like the old one is to create a bubble in Share Price using hype and future promises, not to sell cars.

Roland17:
No mind am!

We go suffer finance Nigerian economy for 12 months and when time to reap “small” benefit come for December, Nigerians will start complaining.

Which ungratefulness pass that one?

Detty December is one of the most ingenious tourism initiatives, dragging in economic activity from the diaspora, even 2nd and 3rd generation diaspora who will otherwise be spending their money elsewhere.

And I know it grew wings naturally not through any concerted effort of Government. The person who coined the phrase Detty December has done more for Nigerian tourism income than all Ministers of tourism since OBJ put together.

Look at this fowl.

Proudly boasting that Accountant General and Auditor General are in the same cabal. So how will Auditor audit the accountant?

He didn't see commissioner of Education or Health to make leaders of cabal, openly touting the money men that steal and wash his funds as cabal leaders.

https://www.nairaland.com/8585895/kogi-governor-usman-ododo-hails

The achievement of the cabal is what we are to commission today. The leader of my own cabal, approved by His Excellency Alh Yahaya Bello, is Hajiya Dr. Habibat Tijjani Aliyu FCNA, the Accountant-General of our dear State.

The Auditor-General is a member of this cabal, the Party Chairman and OC Protocol are members of this cabal.

benalvino3:
is that the only thing you saw in that post?

Yes, for Elon Musk controls the board that awards him shares just like Dangote so there is nothing to comment on