The Cost of Mike & his Mechanics!!!!

[Sheffields Finest]

Rochdale, Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford, Tranmere, Shrewsbury, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Luton, Port Vale, Wigan, Forest, Boro, Fylde, Derby, Leeds all had FA Cup matches this season away to PL clubs. They didn’t realise that they had to pay 50% of the VAR bill of £9,251.00.

Ouch! Made as clear to them as an armpit offside, was it?

 

[Mintyref]

Ouch indeed.......

 

[JamesL]

Rochdale, Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford, Tranmere, Shrewsbury, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Luton, Port Vale, Wigan, Forest, Boro, Fylde, Derby, Leeds all had FA Cup matches this season away to PL clubs. They didn’t realise that they had to pay 50% of the VAR bill of £9,251.00.

Ouch! Made as clear to them as an armpit offside, was it?
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I might be wrong but where does it say the away side pays 50%. Its says home club will be invoiced.
Even so clubs receive a prize fund of more than so its a self sufficient expense really

 

[Sheffields Finest]

£101,761.00 a weekend !!!!!..... that's more than @Mintyref earns Hull Council in parking tickets!!!

 

[StiltonRef]

£9k per match!! wtf costs that much?

 

[afronaut81]

Odd that it is so much, maybe they've included some of the capital equipment/recoup the development costs of the technology.

You're paying for a Premier League ref (the VAR), an Assistant VAR, a technical operaror (drawing the lines).
Then there's the technical side of things - the facility at Stockley Park, all the cameras at the ground, data connections and comms. Presumably it's a secure data connection so they don't get hacked and the VAR ends up watching something completely different!

 

[Grayson]

so they don't get hacked and the VAR ends up watching something completely different!

Like the actual match AMIRIGHT?!!!

 

[zarathustra]

That doesn't say the away side have to pick up the tab for half of the VAR costs.

But even if they did it's only 4625, so is a tiny amount when you consider how much the away club would make from playing a PL side, and how much additional money would be made if the match is televised.

Nothing in this world comes for free, all the people involved in VAR still need paying regardless of whether it's the FA Cup or not.

 

[santa sangria]

Peanuts in the EPL broadcasting world

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Cheers Mike

 

[Kes]

Shocking behaviour.

They'll be expecting referees and ARs to bring their own flags next ....

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Do they prefer cash, cheque or is Harry’s Dog account ok?

 

[zarathustra]

Do they prefer cash, cheque or is Harry’s Dog account ok?

I believe a brown envelope stuffed with unmarked non-sequential notes is the norm.