January 9, 201313 yr IMO it is morally wrong to charge different prices to different fans. ... but, as we all know, football is now a business and morals have no place in business do they..? Citeh fans are now literally paying for their own team's success.
January 9, 201313 yr This is all just an excuse for not selling out allocations. They did it the other year when they played on Valentine's day!!!
January 9, 201313 yr Didn't they do a similar boycott when we played them here a few years ago? Edit: I'm suprised someone such as Zico didn't mention this earlier. Edited January 9, 201313 yr by DazBob
January 9, 201313 yr Didn't they do a similar boycott when we played them here a few years ago? And Wigan away for the last 2 season..... And Bolton away a few years ago..... and every cup game at home.....excluding semi's....
January 9, 201313 yr They would be right to boycott. Its an absolute disgrace, pure greed, nothing less. I know its City and I shouldnt care, but it makes me so angry that football has become so ludicrously expensive for ordinary working fans.
January 9, 201313 yr when you compare prices of football to any other pastime you really don't get value for money for instance 32 quid to watch birmingham game i know we won but its still 90 (well not 90 really) more like 60 mins of enjoyment . put that against the cost of other pastimes i;e golf 18 holes for about 20 quid lasts about 4 hours snooker about 6 quid an hour for a table =5 hours drinking if you say about 3 pints an hour at 3 quid a pint on average = 3 and 1/2 hours there's probably more examples but these 3 just sprang to mind (especially the drinking)
January 9, 201313 yr when you compare prices of football to any other pastime you really don't get value for money for instance 32 quid to watch birmingham game i know we won but its still 90 (well not 90 really) more like 60 mins of enjoyment . put that against the cost of other pastimes i;e golf 18 holes for about 20 quid lasts about 4 hours snooker about 6 quid an hour for a table =5 hours drinking if you say about 3 pints an hour at 3 quid a pint on average = 3 and 1/2 hours there's probably more examples but these 3 just sprang to mind (especially the drinking) £10 Door fee then £50 to nob a brass at Sandys. Worth every penny.
January 9, 201313 yr i'd pay 200 quid to see us beat united nowt i pay for comes close to a last minute winner for the whites
January 9, 201313 yr bolton fans are just tight cunts... nb exempt You're a gent tonight? It's because you have a silly George Michael beard, isn't it?
January 9, 201313 yr IMO it is morally wrong to charge different prices to different fans. ... but, as we all know, football is now a business and morals have no place in business do they..? Citeh fans are now literally paying for their own team's success. What moral would that be? Arsenal City is a different product to Arsenal Reading. You think Reading fans should subsidise massives when they have to watch a lower quality match, for which there is less demand? Edited January 9, 201313 yr by maaarsh
January 9, 201313 yr Watching Malaga last season prices varied. One game cost only €25 but the one V Real Madrid was €90. The next Malaga home game V Barca, the cheapest ticket is €90.
January 9, 201313 yr Last year I did: Benfica v Barca, £35 Rio Ave v Porto, £15 Edited January 9, 201313 yr by Carlos
January 9, 201313 yr What moral would that be? Arsenal City is a different product to Arsenal Reading. You think Reading fans should subsidise massives when they have to watch a lower quality match, for which there is less demand? Bollocks to 'the product'... Theres Dads and lads being priced out of watching the teams they love as a result of their teams success. I know a family of City fans that have been going for generations,lad my age has had season ticket since we were nippers,now him and his old fella are being priced out of going after he stuck with them through all the shit of going down. They will have prayed for the kind of success they are now enjoying,but now they cant enjoy it because fuckers are exploiting them by charging them fortunes. Its not right,and the sooner fans of other clubs follow suite and kick up a stink about these prices the better and maybe someone will take notice. I can't honestly understand folks on here condoning the prices...Maybe you have that much money its blighted your view on whats right and whats wrong.
January 9, 201313 yr What moral would that be? Arsenal City is a different product to Arsenal Reading. You think Reading fans should subsidise massives when they have to watch a lower quality match, for which there is less demand? As soon as you said 'different product' you lost me on this one. Drivel
January 9, 201313 yr You're a gent tonight? It's because you have a silly George Michael beard, isn't it? I'm thinking meldrew has sneaked one through....
January 9, 201313 yr I'd like to see a blanket 30 quid for all away fans across the board at every ground in the prem but its not going to happen. Don't think that's cheap enough should be £20 for prem £10 for championship and a fiver for the rest. Edited January 9, 201313 yr by Mounts Kipper
January 10, 201313 yr i stopped going regular some years back because of the cost. trouble is when they reach the tipping point they won`t be able to lure people back by knocking a few quid off. its all about peoples habits and routines, once you stop going and find other routines for your saturdays then its gone, they`ve lost you. not that they`re arsed. its all about the now isnt it. there`s just something very wrong about a business that pays 95% of its income out in wages
January 10, 201313 yr derek smalls is absolutely spot on. I love going to the football, I love watching Bolton play away, but there is no chance I could justify paying £62!! It doesnt give me any pleasure to see this happen to City fans, Utd fans or anyone else. Its ruining the game and the experience that I love, I just wish some clubs would take a stand for their own supporters.
January 10, 201313 yr We've been discussing the general way the game's been going for years. Lost its soul. This is just another example. It will collapse like a house of cards one day and then guess who they will want back. The working class fan. The ones who raised the game from nothing in the first place. Edited January 10, 201313 yr by bolty58
January 10, 201313 yr Didn't Citeh jack up the prices for us to £38 last season and 700 turned out. Previous seasons they charged us £20-£25 and we sold out. It's a two way thing, their not the only ones getting ripped off.
January 10, 201313 yr As soon as you said 'different product' you lost me on this one. Drivel Exactamundo It's a game of football. Y'know, something that and Dad should be able to take his lad to go and watch and not have to save up for it. I also didn;t suggest any teams' fans should have to subsidise anyone elses'. You talk about the wages that have to be paid. Well, the wages are so fucking high because there is so much money in the game due to SKY pumping so much in. Ultimately this has meant, rather perversely, the match-attending fan has to fork out more. It's all good well folk saying, "Well, if you don't want to pay it then don't go." That just smacks of someone who's not short of money and can easily afford it. Not everyone is in the same boat. I don't care what anyone says £62 IMO to watch a football match is fucking ridiculous. If, when I was a kid, football was expensive as it is now then I'm pretty certain my dad wouldn't have taken me to the games. I'm sure there will be plenty of others too. Less kids going to games means more kids growing up supporting the teams they see on the telly.
January 10, 201313 yr 62 quid is a joke. To put it into context bwfc u18's season ticket is nearly 15 notes less than that. Wish that deal was on when I was u18.
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