Stumbled across this on Youtube: As much as I agree with the principle, I'm not sure how much good it will do. When clubs are selling out their stadiums or at least getting close to doing so, then I think they'll just ignore any campaigns by the fans. Fair play to Bradford and Swansea, though. I hope that taking a long-term view works out for them.
It makes no sense for any club to lower prices if they consistently sell out what I'd like to see doe is less season tickets. As it's almost impossible to get tickets I've found myself to many times at a spurs europa match or West ham prem game
Thanks to the tv deal and the improved sponsorship it brings, attendance money counts for so little of a clubs revenue these days, there's no excuse for not lowering ticket prices dramatically. It's no longer a club's bread and butter.
Exactly this, they have no excuse whatsoever now, and people are getting priced out, no wonder the atmosphere is **** at most stadiums now. I know St Marys had a better atmosphere with 18-20k in League 1 than now with 30k in the PL. I know West Ham have dropped their prices for next season but I think that's more to do with filling the OS than anything else. I think every club should drop prices from next season when the new tv deal comes in.
It's not only the price of the tickets it's also the membership fee you have to have paid to enable you to have any real chance of buying a ticket. I used to have to pay for memberships for me, my wife* my 3 kids and 2 foster kids, and then the tickets as well !!!!! *whilst going through a ****ty divorce my season ticket application for me and wife finally came through. I tried to explain to numpty at ticket office that I didn't want to buy one for my soon to be ex-wife and could I have her one in name of my son. Would they listen or be reasonable ? Did they ****. I am now back on season ticket waiting list, which you pay to join, and they kept the joining fee for my ex-wife. I have since remarried and my kids still live with me but are now old enough to pay for themselves thankfully.
Sounds like your club are money grabbing bastards. fancy charging fans to join a waiting list? shocking. Next when you buy a shirt you'll have to pay a monthly fee just to licence the use of the club crest. Arsenal seem the type to extort money where they can. I feel for your fans
G4E's story is yet another reason NOT to support Arsenal. Spurs would never treat its fans as abysmally as that.
The money you pay to join the season ticket waiting list is taken off the price of your first season ticket
The price of which just happens to rise by the amount of the fee charged to join the waiting list, by the time you're able to buy it
Since we moved to the Emirates ticket prices have only risen 4 or 5 times.One of these rises was when VAT was raised to 20%
It was tongue in cheek comment mate. You are expensive though, and it depends on how much those rises were. Dont get me wrong we've had similar since Glazers came in.
United were particularly cheap, relative to the quality on show, pre-Glazers if I remember correctly. On the whole, Prem football isn't terrible value given most clubs seem to charge around £30-35 for most games. When it goes above £50 for any match it is a pisstake though and it's making football on tv a more drab product. Terracing would help.
In the grand scheme of things paying £700 to £800 for what I would say are decent seats isnt too bad (although a hike from what they were 10 yrs ago) but what kills you is the cynical forced purchase of cup game tickets. The irony is that this revenue probably isnt making much more than a healthy drop in the ocean to the rest of the club's income.
Absolutely. It's completely wrong anything outside of league games is automatically deducted from your account. Surprised it's legal if it is.
Why didn't you just by the season ticket in your ex wife's name anyway ? You could have bought it in her name and just let your son use it
For a member to join the season ticket waiting list costs the princely sum of £4,for a non member it costs £15
