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New Main Stand

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  Now that academy is finished. Parish and co can go “hell for leather” for the new stand. Let's look into what it will mean for the club.  Increase in seats in the main stand of 7,873, reduction in Family stand of 594 and filling in the corner of Arthur Wait to add 683 seats. That would put the ground at 34,259. It would make Selhurst Park the 14th biggest club ground in England. Looking through the plans, It looks like the club will really increase its corporate facilities with two floors of the five-floor stand just being for corporate. It looks good for all budgets of hospitality. Watching padded seat on TikTok, I have noticed very different levels of hospitality. Before that, I used to think it was all very high-end. Actually, there are more affordable packages but still expensive.  New landmark I remember in the early days of cpfc2010 they replaced the gates to the stadium car park. Before that, if there was a news story about Palace. The go-to picture was of the tatty main s
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Impact of Lockdown on Palace's Financials

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I am going to guesstimate the cost to Crystal Palace of Lockdown. The lockdown was necessary and a shame that it didn’t start earlier to save more lives. I will be using information from the accounts and articles; all publicly available information but some behind a paywall to make these guesstimates. I have no insider knowledge. The guesstimate will be wrong but hopefully it will be in the right ballpark and I will contextualise the amount. Let’s start with TV money as it’s 80% of Palace’s turnover.  TV Money Domestic Let's dig into more depth of that 80% figure from last seasons accounts. 60% of the TV money that season came from the domestic deal. With BT and SKY paying Palace £66.1 million for that 11th place finish. If the season wasn’t completed then BT and SKY would get a refund for the matches not broadcast. This is the first season of a new three-year deal. BT had eight Saturday early kicks left. This would work out to be £24.6 Million. With SKY it’s more complicated. Th
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