The survey mentions that "all nine Football League clubs in Yorkshire have most expensive tickets below £40". By my reckoning, there are ten Football League clubs in Yorkshire. I bet I know which club the Beeb failed to include in its count.
Former FA chairman Lord Triesman told BBC Sport he was "very disappointed prices keep going up". The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation stood at 2.2% last month, down from 2.5% in August, but our survey found the average cost of the cheapest ticket had gone up 11.7 per cent. "I think it will prevent the next generation from really seeing live football other than on very unusual occasions every so often when clubs will give the tickets away," he said. "Most of the causes of the increases are driven by the salaries paid to players. "As it is, it will become a sport in which relatively well-off people will be able to go and watch it live and nobody else. That seems to me to be a tragic historic reverse."
By my reckoning, there's eleven... Barnsley Huddersfield Town Hull City Leeds United Middlesbrough Sheffield Wednesday Doncaster Rovers Sheffield United Bradford City Rotherham United York City
I don't think the smogheads can really lay claim to be Yorkshire any longer. Middlesbrough is in Teeside, which forms part of the North East of England region (as opposed to Yorkshire & the Humber). They're practically Geordies.
How come 13 Premier League clubs charge less than we do for a season ticket, surely we are heading in the wrong direction here as we are one of the most expensive clubs in the championship and our area is one of the most deprived areas in the country. Maybe the saying that football is being priced out of the pocket of the ordinary man, with prices like these I am not surprised. Suppose I had better ask it in here as I have been told it was here by someone The clubs and others can dress it up as much as they want, however the price for attending matches is getting out of hand and in my opinion forcing the ordinary working man especially in Hull to be picky about their games that they go to ( well that's what I hear on my travels around Hull anyway )
Very true statement but City have to increase their admission charges if we want to compete in this league or higher. The previous regime had put us in huge debt remember
Because we offer bigger discounts than other clubs, or at an earlier time, and have no competition within about 60 miles? (competition meaning a team in a higher or equal league) The fact our cheapest price is £100 more than some of us have paid says that the club were asked for their prices on a specific date. If other clubs were still in their discount period, or offer smaller reductions for buying early so that they can keep the final price down (ie they reduce a £430 ticket to £400, where we reduce a £450 ticket to £380) then they would inevitably look cheaper in the report. There was also a thread on the Leicester board recently asking why their attendances are down by a similar rate to ours. (they weren't making the comparison, it was just something I noticed when they gave the figures)
I think this article is just as incisive as the BBC one. People pay to watch football. Apparently... http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/people-paying-to-watch-football-2012101845515
