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The inaugural tournament was stronger overall as you had teams dropping down from the Europa league. I wasn’t comparing the overall quality of the competition I was comparing the teams we faced in the knockout rounds to the ones Palace faced. Quite similar levels in my opinion.

Randers, Rennes, PSV and Roma compared to AEK Larnaca, Fiorentina, Shakhtar Donetsk and Rayo Vallecano. Quite similar strength of competition.

The stadium move didn’t help them. For nearly half of those 22 years they were operating with a reduced transfer budget, at a time when oil money had entered the premier league.

Yeah it’s over, Man City will win it by at least 5 points and pep will have another domestic treble

Now on sale to people with a booking history.

I think the QPR game was the first game that went to general sale last season so it was always going to be popular regardless of the weather.

League performance is the main metric of the season and spurs were an embarrassment this season. 17th, 22 losses and home defeats against two of the worst teams to ever grace the premier league. If Arsenal finish 17th next season and win the FA cup I doubt anyone would see that as progress or success. Very likely Arteta would be sacked in that scenario

I would guess a few Palace fans would swap seasons as champions league football is often considered more important than a trophy.

Agreed, it’s become a second rate competition and only marginally better than the conference league. Only four teams in this year’s Europa league finished in the top 5 of the big 5 leagues.

Four of the big 6 are likely to finish with higher points totals than they did in 15/16, if everyone has been inconsistent this year the same has to be said of when we won the league.

You would expect Liverpool, Chelsea & Arsenal to be top 3 at this point. 4th & 5th (which is likely to be enough for CL) are both up for grabs. Forest are in the mix unfortunately

5th place is likely to be enough for champions league this season, Forest won’t be too far off unfortunately

I don’t think so as West Ham went to general sale and that was cat B. It seems to be when the away club doesn’t take their full allocation, I guess the thinking is that you’re less likely to get away fans buying tickets in the home end if they have not been able to sell all their tickets.

Apparently Arsenal fans aren’t happy Ndidi avoided a second yellow for kicking the ball away.

There was a VAR check in stoppage time.