Put it on the Friday 5 and see a lot (not surprised) going for the prem over the Champ.
Wonder if people realise what the score is with away tickets these days.
Looked at QPR, they were charged £46 for Old Trafford (Sunday televised), £43 for Upton Park and £39 for Southampton.
Crazy. I just don't know how anyone can justify spending those prices, yet away sections seemed to be selling out still.
If we went up, then i'd love to know what those who think our away numbers now are an embarrassment would think !
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Some people that don't normally go away, would go.
Some people that can afford it will go more often.
Some people say they won't go in The Championship, because of the cost, but the home attendance will rise by more than 50% if we go up, despite increased prices.
The majority of fans can afford these prices, but would choose to spend their limited funds elsewhere and why shouldn't they ?
Clem (I think) is a good example of people making choices.
He will spend £70+ to go to Rotherham (train & match ticket), but not £30 for Fulham. (Absolutely nothing wrong with that). He is choosing how to spend his money, as he should
Some people may not spend on a holiday or weekends away & choose to go to Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea etc instead.
Both the Championship and the Premier League are outrageously overpriced, but if I'm going to be ripped off then I'd rather be robbed of an extra tenner to go to Old Trafford (£46) instead of Portman Road (£35) or Anfield (£41) instead of Craven Cottage (£30). Just makes me hate what the game has become though.
already played...
West Ham - £55
Sunderland - £34
upcoming...
Ars*nal - £64
Man City - £54
Villa - £41
I'm in danger of going off in a tangent now but I've come to the conclusion, sadly, that I cant afford to go football any longer. I think this season will be my first in twenty-odd years that I wont have seen Spurs at least once live at WHL. It makes me quite sad. What with the new ground potentially around the corner, its going to get worse, not better.
Cost of tickets, well it depends on my circumstances at that time. If I can afford it, in good health, then yes.
As long as people are prepared to pay that kind of money then they will carry on charging it. It's self perpetuating.
Still, West Ham tickets will be about a tenner each when they move to their shiny new stadium.
People keep saying the bubble will burst but I can't see it happening in my lifetime. I wonder which club will be the first to charge £100 for a normal ticket? Or has it happened already without me knowing?!
Ps if Ronaldo comes back to Man Utd, then wages will be given another big push up and so will ticket prices. And yet another spare Premier player will get pushed out into the Championship on silly money....and yet another Championship club will then have to raise its ticket prices....and so on....
I used to think the football league was better than the prem, as it still had the fans at heart, but shame on the Championship clubs charging 25 quid for beaten up stadiums.
Fact is the game is not our game anymore, the tickets prices suffocate our spending. But, there is always someone richer up the chain willing to step into your place, especially in the Premiership.