Price of Football
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Yes I’m sure the tea bags are biodegradable with organic milk added, the meat is free range prime cuts wrapped inside the finest pastry both being served to you in your cosseted seat by the most attentive of waiting staff etc etc
It’s all relative of course but I went to watch a world cup qualifier last week and tickets were £1.90 with chicken kebabs being sold for 35p!
Who's fault is it that these prices are being charged for UK football?
Sky
The Clubs
The Supporters
All of the above
A.N. Other
It’s all relative of course but I went to watch a world cup qualifier last week and tickets were £1.90 with chicken kebabs being sold for 35p!
Who's fault is it that these prices are being charged for UK football?
Sky
The Clubs
The Supporters
All of the above
A.N. Other
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Why Sky?
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Why not, its their billions that's funded and transformed English football (both the good and bad transformations) but yes I see how it could be argued its the supporters fault for paying Sky but unlike chicken or egg the 1st Sky deal came before the subscriptions were paid
bobmac
Major Champion
Greed.
Teams want to win
The best players want obscene money so clubs put their prices up.
Joe Bloggs foots the bill so these prima dona drama queens can ponce around the pitch for 6 months a year, blaming everyone but themselves when they lose and snorting/drinking more money in a week than Joe Bloggs earns in 10 years
Teams want to win
The best players want obscene money so clubs put their prices up.
Joe Bloggs foots the bill so these prima dona drama queens can ponce around the pitch for 6 months a year, blaming everyone but themselves when they lose and snorting/drinking more money in a week than Joe Bloggs earns in 10 years
Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away HID and I used to take two of the boys to the match. Can't remember how much it was to get in but I do know we weren't flush yet could afford for 4 us of to go, buy programmes for the boys, drinks, hotdogs.
Boro matches aren't expensive, especially since they dropped out of the Prem, but the above package would be around £180 now. And going regularly, like last month when there were 4 home matches, inc. a cup game, would be too steep for me.
But its not just football. Its cheaper to go to Portugal to watch the golf, inc. flights and hotels, for a week than it is to go to the Open. It cheaper to fly to Italy or Spain, inc. flights and hotels, to watch the F1 than it is to go to Silverstone.
Boro matches aren't expensive, especially since they dropped out of the Prem, but the above package would be around £180 now. And going regularly, like last month when there were 4 home matches, inc. a cup game, would be too steep for me.
But its not just football. Its cheaper to go to Portugal to watch the golf, inc. flights and hotels, for a week than it is to go to the Open. It cheaper to fly to Italy or Spain, inc. flights and hotels, to watch the F1 than it is to go to Silverstone.
D
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It's a business now and a very big business
Countries pay billions to watch the Prem and indeed CL and the Prem cash out by selling the rights all over the world
Sky threw the first dice then the second dice was thrown by the arrival of owners willing to spend whatever was needed to win
At times I think it's all going to implode but I can't see it now and can only see it getting worse
There are better sports now to watch and enjoy
Countries pay billions to watch the Prem and indeed CL and the Prem cash out by selling the rights all over the world
Sky threw the first dice then the second dice was thrown by the arrival of owners willing to spend whatever was needed to win
At times I think it's all going to implode but I can't see it now and can only see it getting worse
There are better sports now to watch and enjoy
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
So Sky paying billions to the premier league puts up the price of tea & pies?
Surely clubs should be able to charge the fans less due to the sky money.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
I can't work out where all the money is coming from to be honest. It's like the banking crisis where you kind of know that the model is unsustainable but people just seem to go along happily with it as it's in no ones interest to point out that surely it is not a sustainable business model. I think the fact that the major clubs are mostly now effectively reliant on very rich owners who are willing to spunk away large sums of money on mostly an ego trip for them kind of highlights how easily it could all go tits up.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Coincidentally a mates just sent me a text... £2.50 for a Klopp of tea!
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Yup, the pie snatchers!
Yeah you'd think that with all that dosh fans would be getting huge subsidies on shirts/programmes/pies etc rather than paying a premium on top of a realistic price
re can sky be one of the potential causes of this. I'd question whether Arsenal would be charging £1,000 for a season ticket in a lovely new stadium if it weren't for the complete transformation of English top flight football (that was only made possible because of Sky money)
pbrown7582
Money List Winner
Why shame? if you thinks its too much don't buy programme shirt pie etc etc..... we're in a Free market economy
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Yup, the pie snatchers!
Yeah you'd think that with all that dosh fans would be getting huge subsidies on shirts/programmes/pies etc rather than paying a premium on top of a realistic price
re can sky be one of the potential causes of this. I'd question whether Arsenal would be charging £1,000 for a season ticket in a lovely new stadium if it weren't for the complete transformation of English top flight football (that was only made possible because of Sky money)
Yeah fair point
bluewolf
Money List Winner
If it's too much, then don't buy it.. I've decided that watching football is too expensive now, so I no longer go.. I don't have a Sky Sports subscription either.. Free Market economics. As long as enough people are willing to pay it, then it isn't overpriced..
pbrown7582
Money List Winner
Exactly. You are not alone as the gaps that are starting to appear at many grounds are getting bigger.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
shame because it does not cost £2.50 to produce and retail a cup of tea even with a mega healthy mark up, it does not cost £60 to produce and retail a football top etc etc but I agree its a free market although that doesn't stop it being a shame and a blight on the clubs exploiting their fans does it?
D
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No one is being forced to buy the tea or the shirt or the ticket etc etc
It's a popular market and clubs want to be successful and to do that they need to buy players and to do that it needs funds
bluewolf
Money List Winner
In all honesty, I'm more concerned about the sweatshop labourers that are being exploited in Tax Free Zones in 3rd World Countries to make these shirts than I am the (usually) morbidly obese "Sports" fans that buy them...
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Totally agree, you see more and more empty seats at grounds now but most clubs don't need to do anything whilst they are getting full houses for average football. When they have an empty stand then something might be done about prices but I doubt it.
I was paying £18 to watch Darlo in the conference and it got to the point with fuel and taking the kids it was working out at £120-130 a game inc fuel. I wouldn't mind but we lost most games anyway!
There was a semi-sensationalist article a several years back about the direction football was going and how it was, to a certain extent, mirroring the demise of American Football before the game over there was totally rehashed and rebranded. Many of the once big team disappeared or were merged, or the franchise was moved to another city, e.g. Oakland/L.A, Raiders.
The money in football in the UK, inc. Scotland is, and has been for a while, gravitating to the top. Lesser clubs are struggling horrendously, some of which have gone bust in recent years.
And younger supporters are finding it more difficult to afford watching it live. And many of those that do don't necessarily support their local team, the choice being they'd rather watch quality football with top players a 100+miles away than pay over the top for rubbish.
Long term, I believe we will mirror the US, and our football will become a European super league + boot money feeder leagues.
Equally, I could be way off the mark but I genuinely feel the current set up won't survive if it continues in its current direction.
