Champions Man City return almost a THIRD of 3,000 tickets for Arsenal match after fans are asked to pay £62 Manchester City supporters have hit out at Arsenal's 'ridiculous' ticket prices after returning almost a third of their allocation for Sunday's Barclays Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium. Roberto Mancini's champions face a huge game in north London as they try to claw back ground on leaders Manchester United, currently seven points clear at the top of the league. But it has emerged that 900 of the 3,000 away seats will be empty after City fans showed their disgust at being charged £62 for a ticket. Kevin Parker of the City Supporters' Group said: 'In 2009 a ticket to Arsenal was £32.50, so in under four years they have gone up by almost £30 and now they're the most expensive in English football. It seems a ridiculous amount of money. 'Some fans are saying, "I'm not paying £62 whether I can afford it or not because I've got to draw a line somewhere", while others can't afford to pay £62. We play Southampton on February 9 and they are charging £38 a ticket. 'But we go to QPR on January 29 and they are charging £55 a ticket. I think some clubs are losing touch with the ordinary man.' Arsenal are not the only club to have been criticised for expensive tickets but they were revealed to be the hosts of English football's most expensive day out by a BBC survey in October. Football Supporters' Federation chairman Malcolm Clarke said: '£62 is almost obscene. This is an industry with eye-watering amounts of money coming into the Premier League. It's time fans got more benefits of that. 'You would expect Manchester City against Arsenal to be a guaranteed sell-out but if City are sending 900 tickets back then that speaks volumes. 'They have a reputation for being some of the most loyal fans in the country. In the economic circumstances, straight after Christmas, this is an outrage.' In the past the FSF have broached the subject of a flat rate for ticket prices across the country. This, however, is considered unworkable by the football authorities. Fair play to the Man City fans.
Man City is classed as a Cat A match (I think), and was £52 last season. I doubt we would have been classed a Cat A match
But there's a cushion on all the seats and those really fast hand dryers in the bogs, surely that justifies the extra money?
I've just looked, and Stoke fans can buy tickets at: £35.50 for adults for their game at the Emirates. Obviously something to do with categorising the games - seems a little unfair on away fans though.
There's no way any of our games will be £62 but yes there could be some expensive days out later in the year
Manchester City v Fulham Saturday 19th January 2013 Kick off – 3.00pm Tickets for this game are priced from: £20 Adult £18 18-21 £13 16-17 £5 Junior (Under 16) £18 Over 65s £18 Disabled (wheelchair & ambulant) Not much different then Last weekend for the Watford match we had a full house due to charging kids a quid,under 18s a fiver and adults £15 £62 for a football match is simply ridiculous and it's up to supporters to take a stand This season we've had to pay over £50 a ticket at Chelsea,Norwich,Newcastle,west ham,Fulham and Liverpool Enjoy
I went to all away games in the Prem (both seasons) ate a lot of my pension. If/when we go up this season I'll watch our matches on the telly - all prem matches are on some satellite or other.
Just the big clubs. 900 tickets out of an allocation of 2000 have been sent back to Arsenal. I am surprised that they have sold 1100 when its Live on Sky Tv on sunday. Why ? Cashing in on the big boys and DQPR have to with there wage bill. Lol.
Contrast with Morecambe - heard their Chairman on the radio earlier today - they let their fans in free last night aagainst Dagenham and doubled the attendance .. now I know there is no real analogy with Arsenal but at least someone has sat up and tried to do something to arrest dwindling gates .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20948718
Yes True. But Morecambe made a killing on programmes, pies, burgers, tea and coffee sales. I also bet the beer sales were not bad either. I wonder what money did they take last night ??
The bit that resounded with me from the radio interview was the difference it appeared to make to the players - the Chairman said they had been absolutely buzzing after the match and had collectively said how great it would be to play in front of such numbers at every home game..
The Morecambe chairman said that the bulk of usual attendees were pass holders anyway, so actual takings on the gate would have been next to sod all anyway. I wonder how much the publicity and goodwill the story has generated is worth. Fair play to him says I.
Really like the model used by Morecambe but wonder whether they will have lost money on it. I guess it would depend on the number of season ticket holders they have. Could you imagine the riots on here from Season Ticket holders if we did the same. We'd never hear the end of it. Comments of what do I get, where's my freebie etc
