Was listening to the Radio last night, they were doing the Maths on the transfer. He's on more than Messi...I could taste a bit of sick in my mouth when I heard that.
Yes City cited that 'Financial morals' were being breached paying that much Pep really does think he is the Messiah
And it is these idiotic wages (in general) that lead to watching live football (in stadiums and on TV) being enormously expensive.
That's true Bob...however as normal working class people who love the sport and grew up watching it for peanuts if that, then nowadays you must be a snotty nosed Kant if you don't baulk at the way the game has gone for the normal fan. I find it shocking when people need their thoughts, moral codes and understandings of things defined by some white collar ****. We should use our own common sense and mine says the game has gone to the dogs...I'd never tell anyone 'pay for it or shut up' I tell people to watch it on Streams etc.....I will shoot myself the day I start thinking like a Capitalist bell end.
Yup, its a complete pisstake, and all so the sportsmen and their agents can get astronomically rich. I mean yeah they deserve to be paid very well, but it wont be long before we get our first £1m a week player. I remember the first £1m player transfer and the hoohaa that came with it, soon they will be earning that a week.
I've tried that but i like a drink, so can easily sink 5 or 6 pints during a game in the pub. So it's still cheaper to have it at home. It's just one of those things il moan about, but continue to pay
Never went to matches when i was younger. Couldn't afford it and nowadays the prices are hideous so honestly haven't been that often to can't make a comparison. It was more people moaning about the paying these ridiculous prices when you could opt not to pay it and choose other means to watch the game.
should do what my chavvy friends do and sneak the drink into the pub. Went to all star lanes bowling and their bottles of sambuca and whiskey hidden in an inconspicuous white plastic bag whilst pints of cokes lol
People say things like 'its not our money, so who cares' I care that normal working class people who are the backbone of the beautiful game, in essence, especially when the game needed them...have now been priced out for good.
yup. To take my eldest to a game at SB I am looking at about: £100 for the two tickets £75 in train costs at least £20 -£30 for food £20 for programmes and ad hoc ****. I cant spend £200+ a week on football, nor would I, even if I could, which is why I only go to a couple of games a year now, and its usually an early round FA Cup or Carrier bag cup game.
Things that have happened in my lifetime - there was a time when it cost me exactly the same to go to the footie or the cinema ... these days I can take the whole family to the cinema for less than taking myself to the footie Back in the 70s / 80s it cost £2 to stand on the kop at the old Filbert St ... Also remember going away to Sunderland in the early 80s to find the fcukers had upped the away fans entry to £5 without any prior notice (whilst it was £2 for home fans <grr) ... some of our lads, having travelled all that fookin' way, didn't have enough money to get in ... so some Sunderland fans who were so incensed by what their club had done had a whip round and helped to pay... I kid you not - was good to see the footie rivalry put aside ... doubt that would happen these days mind
lol i'm an office worker and on a decent wedge. Made me laugh doing it but just going with the flow with my mates. Last time we went out the guy was all prepared, just before entering this venue to play darts, out comes the bottles, 10 of us and he's got all these plastic shot glasses all lined up on the wall for us to neck as much as we can before we entered. This was in the middle of the city of london
Cost me £30 for the ticket, £40 for the train and about £40 for beer last weekend there. Better than it used to be for an away fan but definitely still ridiculous.
yeah, my dad left when i was pretty young so wasn't something someone took me to. Plus i was born in the last 80s so football for me starting during the PL times
It's very expensive, I prefer freebies like the Stoke game to go to watch United. Very nice. Even then, United are not that expensive when compared to other places. Still expensive on a general scale, and especially as I remember it being 90p to get in, but not 'that' bad on the whole. I take my hat off to those who go every week and have a season ticket, it's a proper commitment that shouldn't be sniffed at (UIR). I've got season tickets at Swansea for my boys and while theirs are dirt cheap, very good value indeed, I could get a season ticket at United for the cost of mine. They haven't put their prices up in three season either.
We go to non-League. £18 for me, £5 for him. Leave home at 2.15, park a 5 minute walk from the ground, back home by 5.15. Sorted.
