Contributing where it matters more than you though, yeah?....

1500 tickets given away.

Better to give away 1500 tickets in the hope that some will pay next time rather then do nothing and get no extra fans for the next game.

Wasn't dissing the idea.

Just see what their crowds are when they don't allow 50% of their gate in for nothing.

Whatever the figure turns out to be it should be bigger than it might have been had they not done some marketing. I don't think they have any option but to encourage fans, by what ever means they decide will work best. I think many of the older clubs are doing 'deals' of one kind or another anyway so I guess we need to qualify most club's gates.

Lebanese expansion is soo last year. And they are not even in Europe (ESL!). Russian expansion is they way forward. After the world cup the landscape will be littered with unused 40,000 seater stadia. We could either expand into Russia or ship over a few stadia and give them to established clubs!