I still think the price of paying to see Arsenal is ridiculous though On a personal basis i paid £25.50 to see the home games v Sunderland and Southampton.I shall be paying the same amount for the Swansea and WBA games which isn't too expensive
You are not forced to buy a ticket for a home LC game if you don't want to go.I'm going to Bradford,we'll have to meet up for a beer
For 26 games the price average for the most expensive season ticket is £75. That is not too much really? You pay that for a meal out in some places in London though not in the places i go to, or for a ticket to a show.
"Mind you, the Arsenal match day experience has changed, and not for the better. We are all familiar with the clichés around the Emirates crowd, but they are pretty much true. People weighed down with Arsenal shopping bags, feverishly recording Arsenal taking a corner on their Sony Hand Camera while 5000 Chelsea fans sit ten feet away taking the p*ss out of them. Waiting in line for a pint of warm lager that mysteriously rises 50p in price every season, cringing while the stadium announcer makes a last, desperate attempt to generate atmosphere by shouting âDenilSONNNNNNNâ through the loud speaker system. Getting to your seat and realising that there wonât be much swearing this afternoon, or indeed any singing, or in fact, anything at all, because your neighbours for the day are a party of Scandinavian school children, all tucking into individually wrapped Mr Kipling cakes."
I can tell you that sitting next to Cym at the Emirates is nothing like sitting next to a scandinavian school kid, although I do believe that he is partial to Mr Kipling slice
When I watched the fulham game last week I was not really surprised to see the large number of empty seats. I think it is very hard to fill a 60,000 ground at premier league ticket prices during a recession. It is a real problem in London....(I don't know about elsewhere) ... as the cost of living is high (housing, travel, food etc.) and the recession is in full swing for lots of us (pay freezes etc)...I took my daughter last Thursday to the Europa League match for her birthday. The tickets were cheap (£20 &10) but then there was the £2.50 booking fee per ticket as you couldn't pay on the day...there was our travel £12, £10 in a local cafe, £3.50 for a programme and £3 for drinks on the way home ; so £30 tickets actually cost £35 and there was another nearly £30 on top of that. That made it nearly £65 in total... And that was for a CHEAP match - The last time i took both kids and my other half to a league match (blackburn) it cost £35 x 2 for adults and £17.50 x 2 kids plus £5 booking fees...I bought 1 programme (£3.50), it cost £30 travel for all 4 of us, £20 in the cafe, £10 on drinks in the ground (tea,coffee, pop) ... so our day out cost us approx £170 ... I earn £720 after tax so we don't go as a whole family anymore.
please log in to view this image As long as it's Angel Slices. Only Mr Kipling acceptable if your going to consume all those calories
So true. I absolutely hate it when Northerners justify our higher prices and say "Well they earn more" and yet moan when they pay for our away tickets. It's mythical. You simply cannot go to football on a regular basis unless you earning 40/50k+ and/or don't family to support. Many Dads have to stop paying for their kids at 16 as they can't afford to pay 2X adults and as a result both drop out. As a currently unemployed student I simply cannot afford the prices they are quoting. I'm barely doing London aways anymore never mind northern aways. In 09/10 I paid maximum £35 a ticket. The most Expensive ticket I bought that season was Spurs which was £42. I was working then so that was more than affordable. Asking Chelsea fans to shell out £50 to see Fulham/Villa/Sunderland/QPR takes the biscuit though. Some tickets for the NLD are £95. The only reason I'm going is because my best mate is part subsidising me for the ticket (knowing him he probably owes me). I shamefully paid £70 for a ticket once and swore never again.
Tickets are expensive in and around London, as has been mentioned. Last season I went to the following London aways and paid arsenal £57 Chelsea £61 Fulham £51 QPR £61 This season Arsenal £61 Fulham £49 Reading £42 Soton £38. And no doubt Chelsea,QPR & West Ham will be £60+ each as well. Add in travel costs and beer tokens, it's not a cheap day out! My season ticket at Spurs works out at £40 per game(19 league & 2 cup games) and I've got a cheapish one- £840.
That might have worked if he hadn't chosen to use Chelsea who's fans are known for exactly the same things
Whether we like it or not all teams have what we like to call "tourist" fans.I was reading an article a couple of weeks ago where Michael O'Leary the CEO of Ryanair was saying there was a big market for flights for fans to fly to the UK just for football matches.I know a Norwegian budget airline flies to Manchester on Friday & Monday and this is because of the number of people trying to get to Manchester & Merseyside to watch football.I wouldn't mind betting it's quicker to get to London from parts of Europe than it is for me to travel by road to London.I hope no-one would call me a "tourist" fan.
No, because by repeatedly getting up early and making the long trip down, it shows loyalty to the club, rather than a one off away day, which is what the typical tourist fan is. During the Villa game last season, i was sat next to the stereotypical "tourist fans". Was an asian family, couldn't speak a word of english, didn't know any songs etc. and yet they somehow got tickets, probably at the expense of proper fans, who enjoy going down for the game and singing their lungs off while getting sloshed, rather than just sitting there looking confused.
Our upcoming away game prices are; Southampton £35 Stoke £30 Fulham £40 Cost of travel to the games doubles that, with interest.
Put your clubs name with tickets after it into google and you'll immediately get a list of agencies selling tickets for "sold out" games for astronomical amounts...way above the face value...some how these people ain't called ticket touts cos they run their business from an office. Clubs encourage this because these fans are more likely to pay the stupid money charged for food, drink and will spend a firtune in the club shop....much like tourists spend a lot at London Zoo etc. Must be worse for you lot cos you've a much bigger ground than us so more of your seats end up this way.
Even so, the cheap home tickets (you're the cheapest in the league) balance that out. Northern teams are cheaper. Reflects the lack of quality in the football.
100% true. Plus (no disrespect intended) we're a better known club internationally, so people are more likely to have heard of us than you, so we'll get more tourists filling up the seats.
Think thats true... it's killed your atmosphere at some games...can't stand Roy Keane but his prawn sandwich comment was very true... price fans out and you get observers...
