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Is this what you're referring to?
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-to-subsidise-travelling-fans

 

Yes

 

I'm sorry, but Tesco give better discounts then that for return customers. The booking fee is probably higher.

 

Every little helps?

 

I find it quite easy mate, when their dearest A game ticket is £123 for a member and £126 for the same seat to a non member. Two thirds of the cost of theirs isn't too bad, no?

 

....but the story is that you're not charging £45, you're charging £75, so yes really.

 

£123 and £126 ?? I didn't know that. That is scandalous.

 

Couldn't believe my eyes either!

http://www.arsenal.com/tickets/member-ticket-prices

http://www.arsenal.com/tickets/non-member-ticket-prices

 

So a father taking his son into their family enclosure, could pay £112 before travel costs, food, drink etc.

That is outrageous.

 

Is this what happens when you build a super stadium in England? If we get to that point are we going to charge scandalous prices!

Then in Germany you have Dortmund and Munich, two super stadiums, but cheap prices and stadiums filled each week with passionate fans.

The Germans always have one up on us!

 

The media ran with a story a few months ago about how the cheapest non-discounted season ticket at Bayern Munich was less expensive than a ticket for a single game at the Emirates.
Not knocking Arsenal specifically for this, as the whole Premier League is appalling for it, but it's a galling illustration of the difference between the two countries.

 

German clubs see their supporters as fans
English clubs see their supporters as consumers

 

Well it's getting expensive to watch "the poor man's sport" isn't it? If the fans of 1950 could see the prices today they would all have cardiac arrest.....or pee in their pants!!!!!

 

It's what happens when you allow neoliberalism to spread to sport. Same thing has happened to the Music and Entertainment industry, completely polarised for the sake of a Buck. Germans restrict corporation involvement of football and keep it pure. The seeds were planted in the late 80s but football truly died a long time ago.

 

I agree.Especially about the music industry.The millions these "performers" are earning is outrageous.....and you could on further.CEOs.........

 

Or monopoly capitalism as epitomised by Chelsea?

 

For some reason that picture of the Spurs crowd leaving the ground along the High Road with loads of trolleybuses ready to take them home for tuppence(?) comes to mind,with the fans all wearing mostly raincoats and some overcoats.That was taken,I think,in the late 40's.
Today,in comparison,maybe two or three buses,street full of cars and scruffy looking fans.Me included!
How much to get in then?6d?2penny programme and body to body standing!Go to the toilet and you'd never get back to your spot!!!!!

 

Nope, SKY and Man U got the ball rolling. Not sure how that situation was allowed to go on as long as it did.

 

I think Roman took buying success to a new level.

 

If Tesco hand out the equivalent of a free Arsenal ticket every year then I haven't seen it yet.

Anyway, I guess if you can't take the pee out of Arsenal for their football or results nowadays the ticket prices is the next thing eh?