In most recent memory, chelsea away, and we could not get CL footy as I recall.
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Kjaer in the community is off. He's useless.
C'mon Lord Divock!!!
C'mon Lord Divock!!!
I remember we lost against to Bradford city in 2000 to miss out on the CL only to play in the UEFA cup the next season and we all know what happened that season.
Low quality game that for a CL semi.
Away team? Don't they share the stadium?
AC will have had the home team fan allocation but still hardly an 'away' game.
Ish. In terms of travel obvs not but yes technically because there were about 60000 more Milan fans inside, they were the away side.
Might aswell start saying Goodison park is “hardly” an away game for us by that logic….the fans create the atmosphere whoch in turn makes it feel for the players that they’re playing away.
Giuseppe Marotta did well at Juve and after joining Inter, managed to end their 10 year trophy drought.
AZ are connected to Beane. No wonder their academy is innovative.
[article]Beane - the real-life inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in the movie Moneyball - should know. He has an association with AZ going back nearly a decade.
He pioneered the use of statistical data to turn around the fortunes of Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, with his methods since applied to other teams in both baseball and football.
In 2020, he bought a 5% stake in AZ, having acted as an adviser to them for the previous five years.
And earlier this year, he gave a fascinating insight into both his methods and his thoughts about AZ Alkmaar in a speech to the European Clubs' Association general assembly in Budapest.
Beane's connection to AZ comes through Robert Eenhoorn, a Dutchman who played four seasons in Major League Baseball. The pair became friends through the baseball circuit and when Eenhoorn was appointed general director of AZ in 2014, he asked Beane to help.
"I am proud to be associated with them," said Beane.
"The process and consistency they have had is one of the best untold stories in sports. I am biased but it is incredible. It is not only a great football story, it is a great business story."
AZ are used to operating on a lower budget - and with a smaller infrastructure - than their rivals, both at home and in Europe.
Take Thursday's opponents as an example. To the summer of 2021, West Ham's total revenue was £192.1m, compared to AZ's £19m (21.08m euros). West Ham's wage bill was £128.45m, compared to AZ's £14.13m (16.2m euros). London Stadium has a 62,500 capacity compared to AZ's AFAS Stadium, which holds 19,500.
Domestically, eight Dutch clubs have a bigger ground than AZ, who are dwarfed by Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.
Yet with three games of the domestic campaign remaining, AZ are well placed to secure their fifth top-four Eredivisie finish in six seasons. They need four points to guarantee European football once more.[/article]
[article]Beane - the real-life inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in the movie Moneyball - should know. He has an association with AZ going back nearly a decade.
He pioneered the use of statistical data to turn around the fortunes of Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, with his methods since applied to other teams in both baseball and football.
In 2020, he bought a 5% stake in AZ, having acted as an adviser to them for the previous five years.
And earlier this year, he gave a fascinating insight into both his methods and his thoughts about AZ Alkmaar in a speech to the European Clubs' Association general assembly in Budapest.
Beane's connection to AZ comes through Robert Eenhoorn, a Dutchman who played four seasons in Major League Baseball. The pair became friends through the baseball circuit and when Eenhoorn was appointed general director of AZ in 2014, he asked Beane to help.
"I am proud to be associated with them," said Beane.
"The process and consistency they have had is one of the best untold stories in sports. I am biased but it is incredible. It is not only a great football story, it is a great business story."
AZ are used to operating on a lower budget - and with a smaller infrastructure - than their rivals, both at home and in Europe.
Take Thursday's opponents as an example. To the summer of 2021, West Ham's total revenue was £192.1m, compared to AZ's £19m (21.08m euros). West Ham's wage bill was £128.45m, compared to AZ's £14.13m (16.2m euros). London Stadium has a 62,500 capacity compared to AZ's AFAS Stadium, which holds 19,500.
Domestically, eight Dutch clubs have a bigger ground than AZ, who are dwarfed by Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.
Yet with three games of the domestic campaign remaining, AZ are well placed to secure their fifth top-four Eredivisie finish in six seasons. They need four points to guarantee European football once more.[/article]
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