{"id":490831,"date":"2026-05-18T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490831\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:01:12","slug":"pay-e10000-to-watch-burnley-desperate-arsenal-fans-may-consider-it-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490831\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay \u20ac10,000 to watch Burnley? Desperate Arsenal fans may consider it \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> got a bit of a kicking last week, and were accused of being a touch on the mean side, when it emerged that members of their staff \u2013 not of the playing and coaching kind \u2013 who want to attend the Champions League final in Budapest will have to pay around \u20ac1,000 for the privilege. This somewhat contrasted with what did Paris Saint-Germain did last year \u2013 they paid for flights, accommodation and tickets for all their staff for their final in Munich.<\/p>\n

All you can hope is that the Arsenal staff at least managed to get tickets for their last home Premier League game of the season, against Burnley on Monday evening. Needless to say, it\u2019s sold out, but as of the middle of last week, according to the London Times, there was one option still available: a corporate box with a capacity for 15.<\/p>\n

Not only will you get to see the game in luxury, you\u2019ll also receive an Arsenal shirt, you\u2019ll get to meet an Arsenal \u201clegend\u201d and get served food and drinks, the menu including a worrying sounding \u201cmini mock chicken burger\u201d. The price? Just the \u20ac150,000 for the entire box, so \u20ac10,000 each. A snip, then. <\/p>\n

Quote\"Ireland'sIreland’s Jack Moylan celebrates with fans after the match. Photograph: Ryan Byrne\/Inpho <\/p>\n

\u201cHe texted to ask how I was getting on. Slagging me again about eating too much of me Ma\u2019s coddle. I don\u2019t even eat coddle. Me Ma is a vegetarian.\u201d Jack Moylan, who marked his Irish debut against Grenada on Saturday with a hat-trick, on his old gaffer Damien Duff\u2019s queries about his eating habits.<\/b><\/p>\n

By the Numbers: 226 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how many days, since September, that Hearts had led the Scottish Premiership table … until Saturday. Hearts? In smithereens.<\/p>\n

Word of Mouth <\/p>\n

\u201cYou go to these fancy hotels, but you can\u2019t have ****ing two poached eggs on toast. I ended up in the kitchen, arguing with the chefs. I said, \u2018where\u2019s my poached eggs, I ordered 25 minutes ago?\u2019 Two poached eggs, not like ****ing steak.\u201d Just another day in Roy Keane\u2019s life.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been growing and … well, it\u2019s a team that has been together for, what, five years now, so it\u2019s only natural that they would man up a little bit and start challenging for titles.\u201d Manchester City\u2019s Bernardo Silva, em, salutes Arsenal for finally (possibly) getting their act together.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"CelticCeltic manager Martin O’Neill holds the Scottish Premiership trophy. Photograph: Andrew Milligan\/PA <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel rejuvenated. The players and the staff have given me a reason to live. That\u2019s not to say my family haven\u2019t.\u201d Celtic gaffer Martin O\u2019Neill after winning the title on Saturday, just about saving himself in time.<\/b><\/p>\n

Florentino Perez\u2019s press conference of incoherent ramblings<\/p>\n

Press conference of the week? Actually, never mind \u2018week\u2019, it was one for the ages. The Guardian\u2019s Sid Lowe never fails to make sense of happenings in Spanish football, but even he struggled with this one. Real Madrid 79-year-old president Florentino P\u00e9rez\u2019s \u201cincoherent ramblings\u201d lasted for over an hour, the attendees \u201cbarely able to believe what they were seeing\u201d. <\/p>\n

\"RealReal Madrid president Florentino Perez talks to media. Photograph: Javier Soriano\/AFP via Getty <\/p>\n

The gist? Well, P\u00e9rez started with: \u201cGood afternoon, I regret to inform you that I\u2019m not going to resign\u201d and then went on to vow that \u201cI\u2019m going to finish the bad people … leave the internal enemies to me. They\u2019re going to have to shoot me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The media? \u201cWhy do they want to kill me? I work day and night like an animal for Real Madrid. It would be bad to say I am the best president in history, but I am.\u201d Out-trumping Trump.<\/p>\n

Reguil\u00f3n willing to spend $135,000 to bring dog across ocean<\/p>\n

Remember Sergio Reguil\u00f3n? The Spanish left-back had spells with Real Madrid and Spurs, and a heap of loan moves, before joining Lionel Messi\u2019s Inter Miami last December. He\u2019s been settling in nicely in Florida, but is desperately missing a family member he left behind in Madrid. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had been looking in to getting him a passport to bring him to the United States and he has it now. I want him to come, I miss him so much,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Who is this family member? Ohana, Reguil\u00f3n\u2019s Golden Retriever. \u201cHe is a big dog, I do not want him to have a hard time, so I don\u2019t want him travelling in the cargo hold. So, I am looking at hiring a private jet to bring him over. It is 135,000 dollars one way. It is worth it.\u201d It is too, good man Sergio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal got a bit of a kicking last week, and were accused of being a touch on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,20992,18,214001,19,17,2353,87513,132],"class_list":["post-490831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-celtic","tag-eire","tag-heart-of-midlothian-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-city","tag-martin-o-neill","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116596421194523102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}