A lot of talk about prices at grounds recently £62 to visit Arsenal,Barcelona charged £7.50 wed night. A friend of mine a Stoke season ticket holder who lives the team,never used to miss a game home or away recently told me he has put a limit of £39.99 on football,1 penny over that and he no longer goes. What worries me is if we get back to the promised land will I be able to afford to go.not sure what my limit is but would not pay £62 so Arsenal is out. what's your limit ?
£62? Way too much. We certainly weren't charged anything like that to see us play them in the FA Cup. I also think if I were an Arsenal fan, I would be making a lot more noise about the lack of trophies than is currently the case. The day I rule the world & become Leeds chairman is the day we pay £15 for a Tuesday night game in the championship or PL. We then only pay £30 against the current big 6 at the weekend, with £20 for all other games. That way, we fill the ground, take plenty of money on beer, chips & programme sales, & make ER into a seriously noisy fortress.
1 of the teams my Stoke m8 refused to go was Norwich of all teams,I think he said it was £42 to go there so promotion must have brought a big increase for them.Local stoke pubs have nearly every stoke game on tv,put on free sandwiches,so can have a beer and watch the game in the warm on the big screen tv,or spend £100 on travel and ticket to go all the way to Norwich.not a hard choice is it.
Still haven't haven't got a feeking scoobie what you're talking about Paul -that's a foreign language to us darn sarf
It depends what the product is on offer.... nope, thats wrong, I mean it depends on how much good faith has been expended nby the owners in trying to build a team worth watching. So until recently, the answer was "about 5p" unless it was against Millwall in which case it was 4p to allow for the risk to body and limb that would entail. I'd pay £62 to watch a Leeds team with players playing the way Willshere played last night If only that was a choice I had to make............... More realistically, I'd pay the current cat A rates to see the current squad play, IF I was convinced GFH were giving NW the funds to spend that Hunter was rattling on about yesterday
Does'nt affect people like myself travelling from outside the UK. When I add up, flights, hotels, food end entertainment for two daughters and myself, a few quid extra on match ticket will be the least of my worries
For those who earn shedloads of money, it won't matter the price. For those (70%) who are on or below the average wage for the county or country, and who have a mortgage, wife, kids, holidays, utility bills, food, clothes, travel costs and council tax to pay, on top of not having had an increase in wages for 5 years (ie real terms reduction in income), football just becomes another one of those luxury items against which you have to prioritise. Many people's limit came a few years ago - since then, we have 10% of season ticket holders each year
My mates a Arsenal season ticket holder from Leeds 80 quid a game plus the nearly 2k for season ticket.
Is it getting to a point where season tickets are pointless. Most probably cant go to every game and with Elland Road unlikely to be sold out for a league match for a very long time would fans be better missing odd game to save a few bob than trying to come up with large sum of cash for a season ticket. Easy for me to say I suppose as I'll only make the odd match one way or the other
