At least you'll get priority on away tickets and won't have to grumble each time they announce away tickets
4% according to BBC. Inflation is 1.6%, for reference. I guess with this perilous financial situation the club seems to think it's in, it's understandable.
Until someone does, Qwerty, block 35 where I believe you sit (and me) is the first section not considered "centre"
I don't remember them ever going on sale this early before - are they doing it early because they know numbers won't be as high after Lallana, Shaw, Morgan, Pochettino et al bugger off in the summer? #conspiracy
£1 364.00 for the very lovely Mrs Godders and me as there are no concessions on our seats. I shall just have to get a paper round for the very lovely Mrs Godders. I shall also have to encourage her to start taking in washing again and to get a daytime cleaning and ironing job. The income from those three activities should just about pay for our seats.
And remember that RPI systematically overstates inflation (by about 0.5% until 2010 and now even more). It's likely that current inflation is around 1% or less in reality. Still, thanks to the power of capitalism, RPI's got nothing to do with season ticket price increases. The club simply charges what it believes around 30,000 people per game will pay and I suspect they have it about right. Vin
Not quite sure what you mean. RPI is currently the same as CPI and was lower than it during the recession.
RPI is based upon the Carli index, which is a weird way of calculating a price index. We're one of the few countries still using it. It always overstates inflation. The only time CPI has been lower was during the crash in 2008. To put it simply, imagine the economy only produces two items. Item A is £20 and item B is £25. Over a year the cost of A grows to £25 and B drops to £20. You have a 25% increase and a 20% decrease. RPI would be the average of the two, so +2.5%. Then imagine next year that the prices revert to what they were. Exactly the same maths, exactly the same RPI inflation. So, after two years, prices would be the same as at the start but you'd have had two years of 2.5% inflation according the the RPI measure. Barmy but true. Except in very unusual circumstances, RPI always overstates inflation. Because of a change in the way goods were chosen for analysis in 2010, the overstatement has become bigger. For an explanation by the rather excellent Radio 4 "More or Less", go to: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreorless_20110415-1330a.mp3 and start at 18mins 17secs. Five minutes of pure education. Vin
If I was born 3 days later my ticket would cost nearly 200 pounds less The slight price rise seems acceptable to me, but I do hope it doesn't become an annual thing. The priority for away games and a Wembley visit (god forbid) if we ever made it is what will probably be the deciding factor.
