Football Nonsense, Profit before People, Tax
Sport: “In football as in life, events occur at the juxtaposition of noise and signal, contingency and agency.” (Matthew Syed, The Times – quoted in Private Eye 1491 What? Any Wintry Afternoon in England , Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) Photo Credit: Manchester Art Gallery [CC BY-NC-ND] * Liverpool and Tottenham fans are being charged sky-high prices to attend the Champions League final next month. The price of scheduled flights from the UK to Madrid has increased to more than £1,300 return. …Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram expressed his anger at easyJet’s prices, tweeting: “Hiking up prices by 683 per cent for return flights to Madrid is quite simply profiteering from the passion of football fans. This is nothing new but entirely shameful. EasyJet responded: “We use a live pricing system and when it’s busy many people are booking flights at the same time. This can