[Salopbaggie]

It’s not really a secret that football fans are seen more as sources of incomes by clubs and football providers such as Sky and BT and it’s only going to get worse in my opinion. I expect that in 10 years, the cheaper season tickets will cost over £1000 and cheap match tickets will be over £200 at least. Maybe even more than that.  

Football for the future generations is really going to suck.

Josh you got me thinking about prices so I thought I would have a look at a comparison of season ticket prices, in context.

In 1883 a bank clerk on average earned 22/- per week (thats around £1.10 for our younger members   ).  For 1883/1884 the season ticket price to watch the Albion at Four Acres was 3/- (.15p) or 13.64% of their weekly wage.

   

In June 2018 the average weekly wage of a bank clerk was £335.58 and the cost of a season ticket is between £329.00 and £429.00, so a mean average of £379.00 for an adult season ticket or 112.94% of the clerks weekly wage.

That means in annual terms our (very old) clerk;

In 1883 earned £57/2/0 (£57 & 2 shillings), so their season ticket cost them 0.26% of their annual wage.

In 2018 earned £17,450, so their season ticket cost them 2.18% of their annual wage.

To put that into a real, like for like comparison, the drum roll moment .

If the cost of a season ticket had simply kept pace with the wages earned, the cost of a season ticket would be in 2018  ................................ £45.70.

Or again looking at it another way our bank clerk could have brought his own season ticket and one each for 7 of their mates and still be in pocket.