08-02-2016, 22:55
So Liverpool's mass walkout against Sunderland on Saturday on the 77th minute has led to a lot of discussion over the last few days about ticket prices in the Premier League, but it's not just the Premier League but football as a whole. Watching any game in any Division in England isn't cheap.
At Arsenal the cheapest ticket is £96 which is the same price as a Bayern Munich season ticket. Chesterfield have some of the most expensive ticket prices in Division 3 and have the 2nd expensive season ticket over Division 3 and 4 with Bristol Rovers having the most expensive season ticket which is £540.00.
Most football fans would like quality for there money and if there team is going through a bad run and hasn't won many home games whose going to fork out the ££££s when they can spend it on something else such as the cinema etc. Also not forgetting we are going through times of austerity and people are going to choose to pay there bills and keep a roof over there heads at that's priority. The only people who I could see paying £77 to watch Liverpool are the day trippers and the tourists who probably make one maybe two games a season. Football used to be a working class game but now working people are out priced and they need an arm and a leg to afford to go to a match now. Also not only are you out pricing the generation of supporters now but what about the next generation and the next generation where's it going to end?
Clubs don't treat fans as fans but as consumers the difference is though supporters can't swap there team for another especially when they've spent a long time supporting them and get emotionally attached. Whereas if you shop at Tesco for example and you're unhappy with there products or prices then you may shop around at Aldi or Lidl looking for the bargains you can't do that with a football club, of course you could go watch a non-league team and help money to go to them but the feeling wouldn't be the same. Football is about community, a sense of belonging.
You have these big business men who come in and buy our clubs and take them over and change them sometimes not for the better, a lot of the business men are foreigners who own big Premier League/ Championship clubs and they don't really understand football and what it means to the fans as they see it as a plaything to make a bit of money.
I also believe that SKY and TV have a lot to do with it as well. Now the Premier League made a £8 billion TV deal and they said when it happened that the £8 billion TV deal would subsidise ticket prices and also money would be shared down the leagues into grassroots football but it looks like they've gone back on the word. They tell fans what they want to hear and do the exact opposite.
If fans are unhappy then they need to boycott games and refuse to buy merchandise and then it will make the owners think twice and wake up, by paying the prices and moaning won't change anything its like a turkey voting for Christmas.
RANT OVER!
At Arsenal the cheapest ticket is £96 which is the same price as a Bayern Munich season ticket. Chesterfield have some of the most expensive ticket prices in Division 3 and have the 2nd expensive season ticket over Division 3 and 4 with Bristol Rovers having the most expensive season ticket which is £540.00.
Most football fans would like quality for there money and if there team is going through a bad run and hasn't won many home games whose going to fork out the ££££s when they can spend it on something else such as the cinema etc. Also not forgetting we are going through times of austerity and people are going to choose to pay there bills and keep a roof over there heads at that's priority. The only people who I could see paying £77 to watch Liverpool are the day trippers and the tourists who probably make one maybe two games a season. Football used to be a working class game but now working people are out priced and they need an arm and a leg to afford to go to a match now. Also not only are you out pricing the generation of supporters now but what about the next generation and the next generation where's it going to end?
Clubs don't treat fans as fans but as consumers the difference is though supporters can't swap there team for another especially when they've spent a long time supporting them and get emotionally attached. Whereas if you shop at Tesco for example and you're unhappy with there products or prices then you may shop around at Aldi or Lidl looking for the bargains you can't do that with a football club, of course you could go watch a non-league team and help money to go to them but the feeling wouldn't be the same. Football is about community, a sense of belonging.
You have these big business men who come in and buy our clubs and take them over and change them sometimes not for the better, a lot of the business men are foreigners who own big Premier League/ Championship clubs and they don't really understand football and what it means to the fans as they see it as a plaything to make a bit of money.
I also believe that SKY and TV have a lot to do with it as well. Now the Premier League made a £8 billion TV deal and they said when it happened that the £8 billion TV deal would subsidise ticket prices and also money would be shared down the leagues into grassroots football but it looks like they've gone back on the word. They tell fans what they want to hear and do the exact opposite.
If fans are unhappy then they need to boycott games and refuse to buy merchandise and then it will make the owners think twice and wake up, by paying the prices and moaning won't change anything its like a turkey voting for Christmas.
RANT OVER!
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More to Football than the Premier League and SKY