I wouldn't say I really supported Liverpool. I just liked Owen so I wanted to watch their games. I was about 10 when my Mother first started taking me to games and I've never looked back. Shame I wont be able to go next season due to money constraints!
I wouldn't rule it out, mate, the prices will be cheaper in the Championship next season, except at our place of course!
38 years old today the sun is shining ....... We are still not in the bottom 3 and i am going to watch some decent footy across the road . please log in to view this image My kids climbing all over Henry.
Good support for the Gunners and the Cup competition at the Emirates yesterday (unlike the relatively poor turnouts at Cardiff and the Etihad).
Out of interest how much were your tickets? My son who lives in London is an Arsenal supporter who is now near the top of the waiting list for a season ticket. In the meantime, because of who he knows, he gets the same seat every game. I know from matches I have attended there that it is nowhere near a top price seat but for a class A game he has to pay £80 for his seat. He told me that in theory Man Utd, Liverpool and Bayern should all be class A games but the club reduced the prices for the Liverpool match to help supporters with the overall cost - he still had to pay £60. Just imagine - 60k full house 3 times in 10 days at those prices and with 2 of them being all pay extra games. With TV money for the 3 games on top of that what chance have smaller Clubs got of competing?
Short answer (as you imply) is none -- except that a small club can, once in a while, build a team which, with a bit of luck added, can match the big boys at least for a season, or win one of the Cup competitions. Financial Fair Play will reinforce the imbalance between clubs with large fan bases, stadium capacities and commercial revenues on the one hand and smaller clubs on the other. A rich owner ready to commit large sums of private money to his club (such as Jack Walker at Blackburn) was pretty much the only way a smaller club could hope to become competitive (though only a short term measure, as what has subsequently happened to Blackburn, and may yet happen to Southampton, testifies). In that sense FFP actually works against wider competition. Arsenal have taken a lot of stick from the media and others harping on incessantly about their failure to win anything. But the decision to invest in a larger capacity stadium, with Wenger's nous maintaining their Champions League status, is now being vindicated. As regards ourselves, the policy of living within our football-generated means is thoroughly laudable but inevitably restricts our ambition. That's something supporters need to face up to.
My friend has a season ticket that i borrowed with another seat and we paid face value £45 each, even though they are season ticket holders and paid about £1500 each they are being charged an extra £60 to £120 for the Bayern game.... Probably the most expensive ticketing in the World...
