With tickets to the Arsenal-Sutton match coming up, Sutton manager paul Doswell is warning Arsenal not to expect a luxurious clubhouse like they are used to. Doswell says it’s not an attempt to sabatoge Arsenal. He relates that there is no money to add amenities to the dressing rooms most players are used to elsewhere. The match expected 700,000 pounds is not enough to address this problem. Between revenues that is shared with Arsenal for ticket sales and wages needed to pay he mant needed employees for the match, there is little money left for much else. Doswell, who has and can not approach Arsenal about foregoing the shared ticket revenue hopes there would be a way Arsenal could allow Sutton to keep the money. With regulations in place, it is likely that Arsenal could not forego accepting the money anyways.

Key Takeaways:

• “We thought about putting new shower heads in… for about two seconds,”
• The National League side will host Arsene Wenger’s Premier League giants in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup
• even if Arsenal named a weakened side he put their odds at “one or two per cent”

“Sutton manager Paul Doswell does not expect his side to overcome a side 104 places above them in the football pyramid – even if Arsenal named a weakened side he put their odds at “one or two per cent” – but he did warn Mesut Ozil and company that they should not expect the luxury of the Emirates.”

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