Not about saints, but still an interesting story. Bayern Munich are set to refund their fans for every match this season due to lack if competition in the bundesliga. The club came out with a statement saying " you win most every game by many goals, you must ask if the fans are getting value for their money. And since we do not see supporters as house cats to be milked, we have decided to refund their money for what has turned out to be a season of one-sided exhibitions. After all, no one should have to pay to watch someone play FIFA 13 on amateur difficulty and clearly we do not need their money anyway. I certainly don't want it. I don't pay taxes, so I already have more money than I know what to do with. We are not greedy like the English." Why can't the English premier league be like this?
Yep fake, it came from satire site the daily tackle http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...ch-refund-price-tickets-season-203135227.html
Thought as much. There's no way a club of Bayern Munich's stature would refund tickets for a whole season. Actually make that a club with a sane chairman.
please log in to view this image â¬80 is only for disabled, â¬120 for the cheapest regular tickets, up to â¬650 for the most expensive. The most expensive seats are comparable to here in other words, but people have the option to attend games for much less.
Edited my post to clarify that the cheapest tickets are only for the disabled. Worth pointing out though that €650 is actually considerably cheaper than the most expensive tickets for saints for example, working out at about £125 cheaper.
Are you actually telling me that anyone thought there was even the slightest chance that this was even remotely genuine? Beyond the actual financial impossibility and beyond the fact that they didn't actually win every game this season - and even lost I think to Leverkusen and drew a handful of games - there are the sentences: "After all, no one should have to pay to watch someone play FIFA 13 on amateur difficulty and clearly we do not need their money anyway. I certainly don't want it. I don't pay taxes, so I already have more money than I know what to do with"? Can only assume - or hope - that no one actually read it first.
I quickly read through it, but not to much detail, I just thought the owner was a bit of an arrogant twat
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but time and chance happens to them all. Evil falls suddenly, who can say when it falls?
I believe they want to do that at Nottarf Krap too, for slightly different reasons, sadly the funds don't seem to be accessible at the moment.
I got the line about "our supporters are not house cats to be milked" before smelling a rat. Or cat, rather. Do they milk cats in Deutchland?
Not that I'm a fan of the Premier League, but it appears to be one thing the UK [actually England, in this case] is good at. I'm not sure whether that is actually down to expertise in business or simply that Association Football feeds on the traditions of an old British Empire/Commonwealth and English language, or a combination of both, plus BSKYB. In terms of football it is far less competitive than its own sibling, the Football League, but the absolute quality is generally much higher. As to greed, I'm not quite sure what you mean. The only evidence of greed that seems apparent in the Premier League is players salaries, but do you think footballers play for fair wages in the Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, etc..? Are tangible product manufacturers like Apple, for example, greedy, when they make a product that is around one and a half times as expensive as other competitive products, for the same performance, yet people still buy them..? No, it is about image, profile, marketing and what the buying public are prepared to pay. And in the case of the PL, it appears the market will bear a lot, before they get cheesed off. When people, en masse decide that they've had enough of the PL, BSKYB, etc... and go elsewhere [that's likely, eh..?] then money will go out of the game and players wages will fall. Until then, keep cheering them on as they get richer in front of your eyes.
The ticket prices in Germany are much lower than the Prem, I attended a Hertha Berlin game when i was there with school a few years ago and it cost 4 euros.. Where as my local team Crawley charge £7 for u19's on the terrace, £17 for adults and £23 for a seat. The quality difference is remarkable, I would attend many many many more games if our ticket prices matched our European counterparts.
