If we're promoted, we have to re-introduce concessions. **** you Ehab. Well done to the Trust for driving the Premier League mad for months. Edit: Having now seen the ruling, it seems they only have to discount tickets by 10% and only in 10% of the ground, which is a little weak... please log in to view this image
I don't think there'll be a 10% discount for concessions. More likely a 11.11% increase for everybody else.
Though the low limits are obviously not ideal, it's certainly not utterly pointless. It kills the principal of no concessions, the whole basis on which the current pricing model is now based, is now dead (at least if we're promoted).
Yeah f'ck you allams! That's what we'll be singing to them if we get promoted? And they'll just be thinking about the sky money again!
So if the club are promoted back to the Prem, and say a South Stand ticket is £25, the concession price would be £22.50. I cannot see children and oap's going to games in their droves as it ain't much of a saving. Hardly seems worth it, i doubt it will bother the Allams as they will just increase prices a little across the board so they will not lose out. I thought they would have had to give more than 10% of capacity and price but obviously not. I also presume they didn't have any penalty/fine for breaking the rules so they are win-win at the end of all this.
From a practical point of view its pointless, there will be no effective or noticeable change in the pricing structure for concessions. In principle I guess its a win because Ehab will be forced to do something he doesn't want to and someone in authority has told him he's wrong which will annoy him.
Ehab comes across as his usual petulant, gobshite, nobody tells me what to do, type in the full judgement... There's a link at the bottom of this page - https://www.premierleague.com/news/466973?sf112536627=1
The PL rules don't actually state what discount level or what percentage of tickets should be made available by clubs for concessions. Now they've set a precedent that 10% of tickets at 10% discount meets the rule. That might just be bad news for kids and OAP's attending games at all clubs in the PL in the future.
Are they saying there that they'll only offer match by match concessions and not include memberships?? I note from the judgement that they are allowed to limit junior discounts to 1 per adult ticket so you're screwed if you take more than one kid.
The whole judgement is based on the selling of memberships, so it obviously applies to both. Where does it state that limit?
