Decent piece from Martin Samuel

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I doubt the 20% mark down will be pass holders not turning up, they would just cancel and not waste money.

More likely the Allams are counting all coporate and community tickets they give out as attendees, regardless of how many actually attend.

The reason is obvious, you want potential buyers to see you have 15,000 people (sources of revenue) regularly attending, rather than 12,000.
Over the course of a season the "extra" 3000 attendees per home game equate to 69000 over a season (£1 million additional revenue at average of £15 a ticket, before match day purchases).

Then of course the advertising sales......

Lots of reasons to over inflate attendances

Community tickets? They charge the youth team to watch so doubt they’re giving away many tickets.
 
To be fair my son is going when he can, grandson has a passes and never misses a game, but my son works some Saturdays, but goes when he can.

I have lost the appetite for the game (mainly due to Allams).
Hopefully I get it back...who knows.

Today, I heard that a 20yo Man City player has bought a £2.25m house and he has yet to make a PL appearance.<doh>

The game is well and truly ****ed.
A player can receive (not earn) in 1 week what the average guy earns in 20 years.:headbang:
 
I have lost the appetite for the game (mainly due to Allams).
Hopefully I get it back...who knows.

Today, I heard that a 20yo Man City player has bought a £2.25m house and he has yet to make a PL appearance.<doh>

The game is well and truly ****ed.
A player can receive (not earn) in 1 week what the average guy earns in 20 years.:headbang:

Oddly, though he has never played for Man City in the Premier League, he has played for them in the Champions League.
 
Okay.
I take it all back, he's earned his £2.25m house:emoticon-0148-yes:

Well maybe he has earned it, by practicing his skills sufficiently that he's good enough to make it financially worth Man City's while to pay him that much. I don't get all the hate for players getting big wages, like that in itself is a big problem. If there's all this money swilling around in the game, it should absolutely go to the people who make the game happen rather than ****s like Allam, Oyston, SISU, Duchatalet, the West Ham mob, or agents.

The governing bodies need to do something to make cheaper tickets happen, it's not the players' fault.
 
Well maybe he has earned it, by practicing his skills sufficiently that he's good enough to make it financially worth Man City's while to pay him that much. I don't get all the hate for players getting big wages, like that in itself is a big problem. If there's all this money swilling around in the game, it should absolutely go to the people who make the game happen rather than ****s like Allam, Oyston, SISU, Duchatalet, the West Ham mob, or agents.

The governing bodies need to do something to make cheaper tickets happen, it's not the players' fault.

The only people to blame for players’ high wages are the paying fans. If they all ceased their Sky / BT subscriptions, stopped buying merchandise and stopped buying tickets then the game wouldn’t be awash with money.

Pure market forces - fans have an appetite, suppliers charge more for it, players get their cut.
 
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