I hear rumours that Spurs have donated their 45% of the gate receipts to County - any one know if that's true?

That would be amazing if true. I would be massively surprised if that is the case however; Daniel Levy must be the most business-savvy and successful Chairman in the Premier League - I would be amazed if he allows that to happen!

Something to do with County getting a bigger stand for more Spurs fans to attend.

Hope this is true would be great news for the club

It might be something to do with the away club only taking a cut of the revenue from any temporary seating if they also share the costs of installing it. Someone explained it on another thread.

FA Cup rules:-

(k) A Club may at its own expense erect temporary stands and take the proceeds in cases
where the opposing Club declines to join in the expenses of the erection. A stand shall be
treated as a permanent one if used after the match for which it was erected.

FA Cup Rules also say:

(g) No competing Club shall make any Agreement with any other competing Club by which their obligations under the Rules regarding the sharing of net gate receipts may be varied or amended in any way. “Agreement” for the purpose of the Rules of the Competition means any agreement, arrangement, obligation, undertaking or understanding whether oral or written, formal or informal, contractual or otherwise, binding in law or otherwise, and of any nature whatsoever; and which includes for these purposes any attempt to enter into any such Agreement.

but I'm sure if people wanted to, they could get around that quite easily

County Exile wrote:FA Cup rules:-

(k) A Club may at its own expense erect temporary stands and take the proceeds in cases
where the opposing Club declines to join in the expenses of the erection. A stand shall be
treated as a permanent one if used after the match for which it was erected.

Yes. So, as soon as we've beaten Spurs on Saturday, the stand(s) will have to come down before we can use it(them) again in the replay against Man Utd.

Ludicrous (having to take down the stands, that is), but understandable.

Willthiswork wrote:Something to do with County getting a bigger stand for more Spurs fans to attend.

We had to do that to get them back up to 15% anyway. Hopefully the away stand will remain for the rest of the season.

ref23 wrote:That would be amazing if true. I would be massively surprised if that is the case however; Daniel Levy must be the most business-savvy and successful Chairman in the Premier League - I would be amazed if he allows that to happen!

He's also said to be benevolent, generous, kind and very conscious of the efforts of lower league teams, so I wouldn't be at all surprised, especially if they beat us at the first time of asking.