This is the trouble with having Arsenal fans on here. Not everything's about the rivalry, believe it or not some people genuinly think that you're charging fans a totally disproportionate amount and are impressed by Bayern stepping in to help out their fans. It's not all club vs club and you shouldn't see it as your duty to defend yours by bringing up a scheme that I'm sure you know is being funded by the Premier League. Each club got £200k to spend on improving away days for fans, if they don't spend the money they don't get the grant so it's no more charitable than what anyother club in the league is doing as no club's going to turn down spending free money.
You should have just agreed with me cini about 'Greedy Gooners'....you would have saved yourself all this had you listened to the wise words of the not so smart one!
You know that the amount that Bayern are helping out their fans for this away game is less than what Arsenal are helping out for their away fans this season though right?
You're not disagreeing with 'me' though are you...you're disagreeing with your own clubs pricelist....priceless!
So you're just going to ignore the part of the post where I told you about where the money for those discounts came from. And the bit where I said it's not about club vs club. Okay, even if you ignore that, it's pretty hard to ignore the fact that Bayern are spending considerably more to help their fans in one game than Arsenal have ever done or ever will do. Domestically Bayern don't need any miniscule reduction in price because other clubs charge them reasonable prices for their away tickets and they act in kind when those clubs come to visit them. Domestically in the Premier League, away tickets at Arsenal are amongst the most expensive in the league making them a significant part of the problem.
As YV has pointed out, this isn't about Arsenal, per se. This is about Premier League clubs in general. You brought up this discount scheme, so I thought I'd point out the most obvious flaw. It's basically a very shoddy loyalty scheme bonus. £2.50 per away game, paid for by the Premier League, on tickets that can cost anything up to £62 for a normal one. The minimum price to attend every away game for an Arsenal fan this season would be £819, according to 442 magazine. You'd get £47.50 off if you went to all of them, so it would "only" be £771.50, which would still be more than fans of Everton and 13 other Premier League sides, as clubs charge some clubs a lot more.
Take it any way you want to,if Tesco gave free tickets the Emirates might then get an atmosphere,instead of being like a libary
Because they're the instigators of football in England being a product you consume rather than a sport that you watch, therefore turning supporters from fans into consumers in the eyes of the clubs.
Sky has done more to create the swathes of plastic United, Chav, Gooner, and 'Pool fans that anyone else, back in the days when that channel had the arrogance and the gall to refer to those clubs as "the Big 4," as though it would always be that way. The resentment of the likes of Keyes and Gray towards teams like Spurs and £ity is palpable in the bile they spout when being forced to recognise that we are now a challenge to the status quo, and that the likes of United and 'Pool are not quite so "big" as Sky had been banking so much of its capital investment on.
Is that supposed to be a humorous dig? Why would I care if other, random fans who I don't know go to the Emirates and sometimes make no noise?? What's their to be proud of? Yay, I support a team who completely anonymous people who I've never met make some noise at games...
