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Originally Posted by jambutty
If it’s not about playing on your own piece of grass, then where’s the problem in playing on someone else’s piece of grass especially if the ground has a larger capacity than the home ground? Many of the ‘smaller’ teams, knowing that they have little or no chance of achieving a result, have agreed to switch venues for the extra revenue to be gained at playing at a big ground would bring.
It’s comforting to know that you are privy to the police’s view on which match to sanction and which not to. The police don’t seem to have a problem with the semi-finals and they are played at neutral grounds. Not forgetting the final itself!
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I said it's not just about playing on your own piece of grass, I said it's not just about that.
The practice of switching grounds is rarely done these days. Clubs have to jump through hoops to be able to do that these days.
As a football fan you tend to know which matches police sanctions are made for. For example I will be attending a match in a couple of weeks where the kick off time has been moved forward 3 hours on police instructions. It was the police who forced replays to be played at least 10 days after the original match instead of the following week like it used to be. The grounds used for semi-finals and final will have a police force who are used to dealing with those matches.